Addressing the Transmission and E-Brake

Finally some stuff came in that I’ve been waiting for so I can *hopefully* get the car back on the ground and driving again for next weekends Fabricated Motorsports event (Formula D Pro-AM rd. 3)

I don’t want to sound like some sort of gimmicky sales ad, but I had been searching long and hard for a good place to have my T56 rebuilt. I’ve heard bad things about a lot of different companies and, since transmission breaks can no longer be what prevent me from driving, I had to make sure it was done right. Oddly enough I was talking to a buddy of mine from up north and he referred me to Jason from Texas Drivetrain Performance. I spoke with Jason about some of my options for this particular application, T101a, glorified and beefed up grandpa T10, magnum 6060, facing the gears in my box, etc. We both agreed that the T56 had another shot left in it so we did a full stage 2 along with triple cone synchros and replacing all the gears I banged up (since 1-4 looked like a crime scene). Anyways, got it back with a very quick turn around time (the only delay was him finding a C5 core for the triple cones) and its ready to rock!

Upon removal of my bellhousing and Exedy Hypersingle I noticed it was a little thin, then I got a good laugh

That thing was hammered and the disk was damn near dead (by no fault of its own, I had shown it 2 years of some serious abuse). I showed Jason the clutch and he hooked me up with his stage 3 which acquired almost 2″ larger diameter of actual clutch material and a 4130 chromoly flywheel right on the spot! Sweet! There probably wasn’t a good chance that Exedy would’ve continued on anyways.

If you guys have a T56 thats dead or dieing, I’d seriously give him a fighting chance at it. He can go as far or as little as you’d like, ships without problems, and can knock out about 6-7 T56 builds a day…and the shop was living proof. There is a floor covered in built ones and a 25ft. transmission table covered in “in progress” transmissions. Twas a true T56 heaven! www.texasdrivetrainperformance.com

Next up I started disassembling the car for my dual z32 caliper install and I found this

Turns out one of the axles that exploded at XDC took out my shock body pretty bad. I called Tein and as usual they were more than willing to help. In the upcoming offseason I’ll be sending my full set of coils in for a respring and revalve for something a bit more optimal and refreshed for my car, very excited!

So beyond the Tein shock being damaged everything went without a hitch, here is the progress on the dual brake install with my own custom made rear hardlines and softlines utilizing George Martsanovic’s dual e-brake caliper brackets (which can be found here Dual Caliper Bracket for sale thread).

Next up was the installation of the ASD Motorsports 16″ pull back hydraulic e-brake with the stand alone 3/4″ reservoir option. I came up with custom brackets that put it real close to my steering wheel and plumbed it with a short section of soft line inside the car in case I ever needed to move it around for any reason

We spent the night bleeding everything and making sure it was good to go because coming up soon was Fabricated Motorsports Pro-AM round 3 event at GGP!