Max Power 350Z Buyers' guide :)

[neo]

Here's three scans from max power magazine of a 350z buyers guide

 

www.maxpower.co.uk

[lomoto]

nice article makes me want to go out and buy another

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again with the renault engine story!

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and the bollox about imports not suffering from the synchro problem? since when??

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and the carbon propshaft failure....

 

 

what Andy from Sumo forgot to say is that his pushed 700Nm of torque when it failed....

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and the bollox about the stage 1 BHP gains

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rest is ok I guess

[lomoto]

and the bollox about imports not suffering from the synchro problem? since when??

 

no thats perfectly true

[Trev-the-Rev]

and the carbon propshaft failure....

 

 

Is this bollox, then? I thought it might explain a bit of a judder I've got when pulling away with anything more than about 1K revs - or do all Zs do this?

[Beavis]

32 valve? Thats 5.33 valves per cylinder!!!!!!!

[Baptist]

What a totally inaccurate guide, its rubbish!

[neo]

well it is max power lol

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and the carbon propshaft failure....

 

 

I've never heard of propshaft failing mate, only one I've ever seen (or heard about or read, on the various forums including the US ones) was the Sumo power one, during a drifting session.

 

With 700Nm of torque, imo that's as much as the propshaft can bear tbh.

[Guest prescience]

and the carbon propshaft failure....

 

 

I've never heard of propshaft failing mate, only one I've ever seen (or heard about or read, on the various forums including the US ones) was the Sumo power one, during a drifting session.

 

With 700Nm of torque, imo that's as much as the propshaft can bear tbh.

 

I thought it was a driveshaft not the propshaft?

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driveshaft

 

the one they broke on the Sumo Z is the shaft that transfers the power to the rear wheels. Basically the tunnel you see fron the front of the car that goes to the rear diff. The wiki mentions the "propshaft" term and I think it's the correct one in this case

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from the wiki "In British English, the term "driveshaft" is restricted to a transverse shaft which transmits power to the wheels, especially the front wheels. A driveshaft connecting the gearbox to a rear differential is called a propeller shaft (or more commonly a "prop-shaft") and a driveshaft connecting a rear differential to a rear wheel is usually called a halfshaft. The name derives from the fact that two such shafts are required to form one rear axle."

[Sarnie]

from the wiki "In British English, the term "driveshaft" is restricted to a transverse shaft which transmits power to the wheels, especially the front wheels. A driveshaft connecting the gearbox to a rear differential is called a propeller shaft (or more commonly a "prop-shaft") and a driveshaft connecting a rear differential to a rear wheel is usually called a halfshaft. The name derives from the fact that two such shafts are required to form one rear axle."

 

Are you replying to your own posts?

[Guest prescience]

Hey Val I'm not haveing a pop at your words mate

 

In your terms, I though it was a halfshaft (what I'd call the rear driveshaft) or in blackadder speak, one of the short transverse thingys as opposed to the long longitudinal thingys

 

I just had in my mind a picture of someone holding the broken part and you wouldn't be able to do that with a propshaft - honestly I can't recall

[Guest prescience]

the Sumo website talks about a CF propshaft - so it must've been that and the old memory failing

 

ps I can't edit posts in this forum - the old issue; any chance you can sort that?

[Baptist]

I know Sumo had issues with the driveshafts (halfshafts), going whilst drifting, didnt hear about the prop shaft. Not to say it couldnt go, drifting is just murder on a car.

 

My driveshafts were showing serious signs of wear when they came out.

[captint]

Bap was that because you were running an S/c or due to normal wear and tear

[Baptist]

This car has only run turbo's, my last one was Vortech'd.

I dont drag the car, and dont do standing starts, but the torque from the kit has obviously had an effect on the driveshafts.

 

New ones are about twice as thick, and much sturdier. No chance of clicking, either.

[Chesterfield]

Just thought Id settle the debate here as to whether the Sumo car snapped its prop shaft or drive shaft.

 

It was the driveshaft. The shaft from the diff, to the wheels. Not the long carbon shaft running the length of the car.

 

I have a picture of said snapped shaft, in my mitten...

 

 

Its most certainly the driveshaft (well a drive shaft as I know it anyway).

 

With the torque the pink Z puts out, I could see it snapping a CF propshaft too if pushed though.

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oops I was convinced it was the propshaft????

 

so not the carbon fibre propshaft then!

 

why can't they just call it rear axles? (which is what they are, right? just to understand, it's those that cause the clicking noise, right?? )

[Chesterfield]

Im pretty sure the one above is no longer clicking but yes, I believe they are the culprits.