A few friends of mine stopped by my shop and they just happeneed to have a really nice digital camera handy, so they snapped some pics of my broken ATS:

First of all the car on the rack:



HEY! Where did these come from?



OH! Here's where they came from!



And perhaps this isn't good either?



How about another view of the ATS ring gear?



So now here's my new ATS combo - wouldn't it be like a 0.00 FD since the pinion shaft has no teeth?



Oh, and how's that clutch doing?



Looks like the clutch has barely worn off the little copperish coating that's on the pucks. ClutchNet builds an awesome clutch for sure, and if you'll look at the first pic of my car on the rack you might be able to see the stock ITR flywheel that looks just fine - no grooves like I've seen once before with a ClutchNet clutch.

So what do you guys think? That looks so much worse than my stock 4.400 pinnion shaft did. The stocker had only 4 teeth gone and the car was still drivable. If the ATS is so much stronger I wonder why my stock 4.400 FD held up with some missing teeth while the ATS did what you see above?

?

 

heh, off topic, you look like a interesting fellow

 

Here, let's comapre this to my old broken stocker piece:

Pinion shaft:



...And the perfect ring gear with all of its teeth intact:



4 teeth broken perfectly clean vs. every last tooth gone plus some ring gear damage.

 

How did you break 2 pinion shafts?

 

Here's some related threads:

https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=241350

And this one:

https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=242137

I don't feel like explaining it again, so just read those threads and you will know what happened I guess.

 

I read those; I just thought it unusual that you would break 2 (no offense).

 

Nice looking car
car broken
what are you going to do?
how are your hands so clean after taking out a tranny?

 

Don't know if he did the work, but in the words of you young people... gloves own!

Zeus- who uses nitride gloves... finger nails still get dirty...

 

What is the mark that runs the circumference of the ring gear right down the middle? And the matching marks on the pinion gear?

 

You got good teeth, bro

Suprdave

 

one of the pieces flew off and into your chin !!! are you okay ???

heh someone had to say it

nice pics! and teeth too

 

I bet the tranny case is warped- that led to both FD's breaking.

Then again, what do I know.


[Modified by RaVAGE00, 1:44 PM 8/3/2002]

 

Looks Bad

 

Hands are clean because the pic was taken 2 days after the tranny was pulled.

I pulled the tranny, but 2 of my co-workers actually tore it apart once the case was cracked open.

For now I've got a stock 4.40 ITR FD from a friend to borrow until I get the funds for the new ATS.

Downtime sucks ***, but I guess I'll be okay with the stocker for the time being.

 

What kind of pressure plate are you using?? How does it compare in clamping force to - say a stock clutch?

BPR - who is just wondering about stuff

 

Sucks...Good luck with the next ATS!