Gearbox surprise


corral

corral
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I've only just imported this 97 prefacelift and have been cleaning it and tidying it up a bit.
Today i was cleaning the engine bay and noticed there was this orange sticker on the gearbox.
Upon closer inspection the sticker was from a jap company called orange ball and it also listed the following

1st 3.23 98R
2ND 1.900 DC2
3RD 1.360 DC2
4TH 1.034 DC2
5TH 0.048 EK9

FD 4.785
LSD SPOON 1.5 WAY
Date fitted 22/3/09
mileage at the time 96016km

all the work was'nt even done a year ago and only 5000km ago :nice:

i'm well chuffed,i knew it had an uprated lsd as its very noticeable but obviously there is no way of telling when its in the gearbox.
 
it certainly gives me something to think about,its just good to get a nice surprise instead of a bad one for a change.
 
The black one in the avatar was my old rx it had only done 34,000km (21,000 miles) was a grade 4,one jap owner. its in Ireland now,was a beautiful car,i've never seen one as fresh as it was,cost me an absolute fortune to bring over,it cost me 1.5 million yen before the exchange rate fell,it would cost 12,000 ish gbp+ shipping ,tax and duty nowadays so around 17000 gbp with todays exchange rate :nerv:.
 
What a find!

Ha ha,must admit i was a tad jealous when i read that you had found a stroker kit lol, i'm sure i was'nt the only one,its great finding these things when you don't expect it,good old japs.
 
The black one in the avatar was my old rx it had only done 34,000km (21,000 miles) was a grade 4,one jap owner. its in Ireland now,was a beautiful car,i've never seen one as fresh as it was,cost me an absolute fortune to bring over,it cost me 1.5 million yen before the exchange rate fell,it would cost 12,000 ish gbp+ shipping ,tax and duty nowadays so around 17000 gbp with todays exchange rate :nerv:.

I know the feeling mate. I imported a grade 4.5 CW one for myself 3yrs ago cost me 11k at the time and put another couple of grand in it then sold it on making a loss of atleast 5k:angry: If I was getting one again id like a black one but there rare as hens teeth to get
 
I know the feeling mate. I imported a grade 4.5 CW one for myself 3yrs ago cost me 11k at the time and put another couple of grand in it then sold it on making a loss of atleast 5k:angry: If I was getting one again id like a black one but there rare as hens teeth to get

I basically drew even on that one but was gutted to sell it,it was a lad called grimbo from Omagh that bought it,he was on here but then dissappeared,never came across it since.
 
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Its allways good when things like this happen.

Wish mine was like that.
When i got my original EG6 SiR2 box out i found a nice Spoon LSD in there but think the rest of the box is Std unfortunaly.
It now makes sence to why the std EK9 box i fitted didnt seem to pull as strong in corners.
 
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