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3-18-2014
haven't updated my build in a while. figured I get back on it for a bit. Shortly after rotorfest and the carlisi meet I went ahead and picked up a second FD roller, plans in my head for it were to build a full track car.
Car came with some xxr's with some new BFGoodrich drag radials so I figured, hey, I haven't changed the wheels on my FD since I got the car so why not swap them over to mine to see what they look like and utilize the radials.
So I also figured, hey lets take the car out to the fallnationals in E-town before the season ended and get a few more passes in for some practice and to see if the radials help me out off the line.
3-18-2014
The day at the fall nationals was horrible from the start. Weather was iffy, had major delays and waited around all day to get some time runs in. Pretty much in a 8 hour day I got one pass in which I bogged out horribly. and then... this happened:
Blew the diff and leaked out allover the place
Had to get a tow truck to come to the track and then tow me to my cousins house since it would have been a fortune to tow from E-town all the way back to long island.
After sitting at my cousins outside for about two weeks I had to get a rental truck and trailer to tow it back home to start fixing it up.
All in all it was a bad day that turned out to expensive day. But you have to live to learn and that was a learning experience. Launching that high on large 18" drag radials at 8k with a stock torsen diff with nothing but a little banzai brace was not smart.