First Weekend

Hey guys, went to Arai this weekend with the intent of setting up my overdrive setup. Got there and asked Katsumi-san what camber setup I should be running with my medium Kawada tires. He told me to check the camber of the front tires and adjust it to between -5 deg's and -7 deg's, for the rear he told me to run either -1 or -2 deg's. I choose to ran -5 deg's and -1 deg at first for front and rear respectively. The car ran pretty good but the rear end just didn't seem to be coming out good enough on the slow speed corners. Katsumi suggested i change my super soft springs in the rear to mediums, and that really did the trick. I also changed my rear camber to -2 deg's which also tremendously helped the countersteer around low speed/low throttle corners. The car ran great on Saturday night, I had a few issues with the car all of a sudden losing its rear wheel drive. But it would all of a sudden fix itself so I became confused. I checked the front diff quite frequently for wear between the metal imput gear and the plastic ring gear and I found a small pile of plastic shavings at the bottom of the diff case by the end of the night.

By sunday the problem with the loss of rear wheel drive continued almost continually every 15 mins which wasn't very fun. I also spent a large part of the Sunday session shimming and reshimming the front diff gears in order to remesh the gears to prevent more gear wear. Val was kind enough to give me some Anti wear grease that i applied liberally to the front diff gears, hopefully that will slow down the wear process! The problem with the loss of rear wheel drive continued almost continually every 15 mins which wasn't very fun.I soon found out that the rear imput gear had come lose from the imput shaft which was causing the random loss of RWD. I tried going back to the stock 16T imput gear and had limited success with keeping counter steer, so this week i hope to solve my problems with the 18T imput so that I wont have to worry about reliablilty.