I would like to thank Chris and his wife Maria for their help and patience this weekend.

Here is the story of what happened:

<u>Saturday</u>
7am - I went to work with my father until 4pm.

5pm - at Chris's house where Bob, Chris, and I proceeded to drop the tranny on Bob#455's car, and start dropping the tranny on my car.

8pm - Chris goes out to dinner with his wife for his Birthday. Bob and I borrow Chris's car to pick up a van that my father was lending to me for the day. Drop Bob off at home as he works at 6am the next day. Go to Wally World(Wal Mart) for some light bulbs for the drop light.

10:30pm - Chris and I finish the removal of my transmission, clutch, pressure plate, and flywheel.

12am - get home

2am - go to sleep

<u>Sunday</u>

7am - go to work with my father

12pm - Chris leaves with 3 trannies in his car to Jeff652's house for JDM FD install

3pm - get out of work and call Chris to find how everything is going - find that he was stuck in traffic and was running a little late getting to Jeff's house. Find out that Chris's wife Maria is sick and to allow her to sleep and to respect her wished Bob and I do not go to Chris's house to finish working on the cars until Chris returns home.

9pm - go and pick up Bob up, arrive at Chris's house

9:30pm - Chris, Bob, and I start installing flywheels, clutches, and pressure plates in 2 cars, realize that we don't have a clutch alignment tool...

<u>Monday</u>

1am - find out that Bob's clutch wasn't aligned correctly, had to rig up something to properly align the clutch for his car, do the same to my car.

2am - I install the ES rear motor mount insert that I've had for ~1 year(leave other mounts for another day)

4am - finish installs and start cleaning up

4:30am - my car wont start...find out that I had connected Bob's starter, but had forgotten to connect mine

4:45am - leave to drop my father's van back with Chris following in my car...find out that I forgot to plug in the VSS, again connected it on Bob's car, but forgot ming

5am - drive 35 minutes to pickup Chris's Suburban from the car mart.

6am - arrive home...now with a cold, and exhausted

6:30am - call in sick, then take shower

7am - asleep in bed

1:30pm - woke up exhausted

I would again like to thank Chris for the use of his garage, for him to drive down to Jeff's house for the FD install, for his help removing and installing all of the parts.

I would also like to thank his wife Maria for her allowing us to do this at their house...and believe me, I really don't want to be working on a car that late <u>ever</u> again.


Parts that I installed this weekend:

JDM Final Drive
Comptech Al Flywheel
ACT Heavy Duty Pressure Plate
Clutchnet "Kush-Lok" clutch
Energy Suspension rear motor mount insert

Parts that I didn't have time to install:
Spoon thermostat
Mugen Thermoswitch

Parts that I was to tired to re-install:
Comptech Icebox - now just have a short ram intake until I have time to re-install the Icebox

Austin - who still isn't sure what day it is, and is sick

 

Souds like you had a similar week-end then mine.
I installed an ATS FD, Exedy clutch and Toda Flywheel.
I am coming out of a cold so I was not in peak form.
Almost burst a gut reinstalling that damn transmission in place alone saturday, manage to put four bolts to hold it in place before I went to bed burned out.

Sunday I crawled out of bed and managed to complete the installation.

Good job

BTW we are thuesday

 

long weekend?

 

That's an understatement.

 

hehe... long.. yea. I was sick starting on Saturday...


Thanks for the thanks Austin... Damn.. now I still need to install my motor and tranny.. hehe

 

yeah jeff did my toda fw/exedy clutch/jdm fd.. finally broke it in... AWESOME is the only thing I can say!
i can only imagine what the ats fd feels like now.

 

After driving with the JDM FD I can say that the ATS would have been too much for me...hell I already have traction problems in 1st. It's annoying to have vtec kick in at 78 mph, which is 4500rpm.

 

 

"Tweakers"

Sounds like a looongg weekend...
on getting it done though.

 

17mm deep dish socket works well for clutch alignment tool.

Chris - who offers this tiny tidbit of information for future clutch installs.

 

I use the threaded rod off my three leg puller and some "electric tape"...don't ask but it worked like a charm.

 

I have a clutch alignment tool sitting around that someone can have. They come free with exedy clutch kits are are more than reuable. Make it a community tool for the unfortunate

 

Well god darn it I just install an Exedy clutch and there was no alignment tool...
I have been wronged !!! Where is Johnny Cochrane???


[Modified by JPP, 4:56 PM 10/1/2002]


[Modified by JPP, 4:58 PM 10/1/2002]

 

hahaha, I even got a freakin Exedy T-shirt. Wore it right after the Nopi ATS install!

I got my clutch kit from clutchcityonline.com

 

.....That's what those who got the "weak sauce" tell themselves as consolation.

 

Whatever Ken...I think that Kengs has corrupted you and you're a JDM Freak Jr.

Austin

 

Awesome

 

hehe, i was j/k and ttt'ing your thread bro!

btw: for a 2L bottom end, I'd go with a jdm final (presuming I broke my ATS one already... )

 

Dayum,

Jeff installed 3 FD's in one day......jeebus!

He's g00d

 

I helped!! We also did my 3-4 synchro as well. (well not really... hehe I slowed him down because I was in training!!)

Hit Jeff up.. link in sig.. he really knows his stuff....

 

cool beans man. hope the both of you feel better.

gonna add some testimonials for Jeff's site?

again...good job.

 

chris is da man

since you guys had soo much extra energy and time leftover, you should have called me so I could have dropped off my tranny and you could install the ats, flywheel, & clutch

haha

jeff seems to be a cool guy, I am dropping off my tranny with him middle of next week.

I just finally got my comptech flywheel in. this morning I just got out of the shower, looked out my window and saw the ups guy walking away. I was only in shorts (no shoes/shirt) I ran like hell after him. After running for 100 yards they stopped at another house. I was like duudddd! You didnt hear me stay "stop"
He thought it was kinda funny (i didnt)

austin & bob, you need to give us a review of the new tranny mods when you get a chance

 

Austin, you need to post on LiveJournal.com

I think you would fit just fine in that forum as well as this one!

Migs - Who doesnt know why people post their whole weekend plot/schedule?

Whatever floats your boat!

 

although i'm not austin/bob, i too had jeff put in a new fw/clutch/jdm fd. i was finally able to rag on it earlier this week... nothing but pure joy

ps. thanks for the icebox bob! i am having some rubbing issues along the frame(?) where the lower tube of the airbox so i just shoved a piece of rubber in there..hopefully that'll fix it!

 

Damn Austin, I tired from reading your post. Sucks when you get burnt out.. Props to those guys for the help..