well, today we finished car surgery on the Max and we took her out for a spin. Also put in new spark plugs. Car felt pretty good in 1st, revved to about 7k and shifted hard to 2nd expecting good wheelspin but instead i hear a loud BANG and thud thud thud thud noise. Right away i was like aww sheit snapped another axle. Luckily we were close to my house so we pushed the Max home. this is the 2nd time too! sucks.

 

matthel - why don't you get reinforced axles made?? with all that power, wouldn't it be worth the money?


THAT SUCKS THOUGH!!

 

man that does suck it must be "nice" though having all of that power breaking axles and stuff....

 

well if i think positive i could say i can snap my axles. but then always gotta worry bout breaking them and getting stuck somewhere. It also sucks to have to pull out the broken one and slap in a new one. Ive thought about stronger axles, dunno were to get them.

 

does don intexass have them

 

i think he is working on some stronger axles or he already has them installed. from vitek i believe.

 

snapping axles... cool... I wish I could snap axles...

 

oh man...sad to hear.

Have you tried contacting Place Racing for custom axles? There is also a company that does reinforced axles for hondas and such...I can't think of the name right now im sorry...but it will be a big chunk of change for you...anyway, good luck!

 

Well if you have some made, I think there would be about 10+ guys who could use them(provided most of the 4-gens axles can be exchanged)

 

Damn, I remember how you were talking about snapping axles at the Coyote pt meet. I was wondering to myself, wow...SNAP?

I agree that you should have some reinforced ones made...it'll be a good investment for you.

 

http://www.driveshaftshop.com/

 

Damn Mathel that sucks. I hope you get your max back on the road soon.

 

Jeff (Shadow) has been talking with Vitek about getting race worthy axles made that can withstand up to 500HP or something around there. But the demand is not there, without deposits on confirmed orders, it's hard to start something like that.

I'd be more than happy to start the race axles production if we had 10 or more people I think we could figure something out.

Let me know.

Jason Sadler
jason@evolution-autodesign.com

 

im interested in axles but i dont want to spend anywhere near $800 for 2 of them. If they could be cheaper then i would get them.

i got your email Brett, thanks

 

is it possible to get them reinforced? how bout cryo treating them?

 

Cool
We (DSM) break parts soo often we treat it like something good. It means you are making a lot of power.
So Congrats on breaking your axles

Ant

 

Craig Mack to 5spd is like Ant to Fast Car Owners..

we know Craig Mack has a 5spd.. time for him to shut up
we know you have a fast car.. time for YOU to shut up

i am starting to wonder if you put your little ***** in the tail pipe at night time

 

This is not my thread.
I'm not going to hijack someone else's thread.
IM if you have a problem.

Sorry matthel.

Ant

 

Maybe you need to put your bald Nitto tires back on.

Are you still leaking?

 

no problem.. but we are getting sick of hearing how fast your car is.. and your turbo knowledge

 

hummm
maybe i should get some cyro treated axles. du8nno if itll help or not. yea i think its time for some 205/60/15's again.

 

WHAT THE HELL ???! AGAIN????!!!!





tamada.

 

Now you know you have lots of power just need to get them axles. Shadow as posted above said he can get them. Now you have more then one option since confused posted another link.

 

tamada? is that like ta-maaaaad? (that's maaaad like mod, not mad)

 

Mathel,

What part on the axle is breaking?

The basket or the shaft?

The Nissan OE shafts are good to 300hp at launch according to driveshaft.com. I know you make more power than that but do you launch it that hard? Are you still using a rebuilt units? Maybe you should get a Nissan OE and see if they hold better.

 

the shaft itself broke the first time. This time was the shaft but also the basket busted too. i wasnt launching hard, i was doing a hard shift from 1st to 2nd. Car feels alot better now after surgery.

 

axle shaft busted? whoa. by the way, what kind of "surgery" did you do to your car? if you could do everything again would you turbo your max or get another car (ala silvia conversion)? i'm pondering whether i should stop turbo the max or build a weekend/race only S13.