Mr. Spam's Street and SCCA Autocross build (modified)

Also, I created this checklist document to help me in removing my transmission. Thought it might be useful for other folks who want to drop their transmissions as well for whatever reason.

New license plate!

Why do you have rafter ties inside your wheel well?

Those are brackets for home-made ride height sensors. I get voltage changes with ride height and correlate those with downforce (or lack of!). I WAS in the middle of working on underbody fairings (which seem to help) when I had the AutoX transmission incident.

See above.

I've done one-side.

How much lift are you seeing?

I haven't really re-run numbers yet - wanted to get both sides done before doing that. As noted above, I'm working through the transmission issues. I'm literally going to actually drop the transmission tonight. Got both axles out last night (pictured). I figured while I've got everything out I will also:

- replace control arms with the DNA (not adjustable) set
- replace all motor mounts with the Damon motor mount set
- do the Whoosh over-driven lightweight water pump pulley
- as long as I'm Whooshing, install the Whoosh motorsports stage 3 COMPLETE SMF clutch kit. I had the Spec stage 3 kit, but I've had nothing but transmission headaches ever since installing that kit (lost reverse synchro x2). The Whoosh SMF kit seems to not cause those kinds of issues, and folks are using it in 350+ hp builds, so I'm giving it a try.

Any other ideas? I'd be interested to hear from people who have done axle upgrades (MFactory, Traxxis) as to what their experiences might be.