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Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 4:32 pm 
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sounds about right man.

 

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Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 4:41 pm 
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Thanks for the info guys, i think i will go with 4:11's, i think it'll be sweet.

Where is the cheapest place to buy 4:11's? I'm assuming a wrecker, but can't really be bothered pulling them out of a wreck. Can you get them new off ebay?

 

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Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 10:12 am 
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I got them of Ebay and installed for less than $500
Only took just over 1 hour.

 

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Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 10:16 am 
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Here is the IMPORTANT BIT. (Something I've never mentioned before)

There are two offsets inside the diff housing.
One type will require only a spacer, the other requires work done on the actual housing.

If you start with a FACTORY FITTED 3.45 diff, as fitted to EFII and EL I6 Ghias and XR6s, the fitment is easy, and cheap. (thus the price in my previous post)

 

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Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 10:18 am 
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FairmontXR6 wrote:
Here is the IMPORTANT BIT. (Something I've never mentioned before)

There are two offsets inside the diff housing.
One type will require only a spacer, the other requires work done on the actual housing.

If you start with a FACTORY FITTED 3.45 diff, as fitted to EFII and EL I6 Ghias and XR6s, the fitment is easy, and cheap. (thus the price in my previous post)


The diff shop that did my gears is on Newmarket Rd on Brisbane's Northside.

He knows his stuff!

 

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Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 2:35 pm 
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FairmontXR6 wrote:


One type will require only a spacer, the other requires work done on the actual housing.



Ah hah! So my diff housing is the one thats needs a little love from the grinder to clear the gearing? Thats easy enough.

Backlash and preload is a peice of piss too.

I might install the gearing and one of those cheap a** ebay lsd centres too while i'l at it, as currently no lsd for me.

 

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Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 6:59 pm 
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So someone who has these with a s speed, what rpm at 100 do the manuaks do with 4.11's?

At 100 i currently do around 1950 rpm at 100kmh.

 

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Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 8:49 pm 
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Looks like I made a mistake in my previous post... quoted the wrong RPM for KM/HR. So to correct the mistake, below is a image that should help.

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Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 1:40 pm 
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Does this mean that the top speed of your car might be 150-160ish due to tail shaft issues? If so can you put a replacement tail shaft in that will handle high speed?

I have an alloy tailshaft atm, can you get them balanced?

Sorry to 'steal' this thread, but I am sure others would be interested about this too.

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FairmontXR6, have you corrected your speedo? it just seems weird as my 5 speed with 3.7's sits at 2300 at 100km/h.

 

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Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 7:00 pm 
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FLASH wrote:
FairmontXR6, have you corrected your speedo? it just seems weird as my 5 speed with 3.7's sits at 2300 at 100km/h.


Ah hah, this is quite a comparisan, yours being manual, if i was to fit 4:11's, it'd be revving quite high at 100.

Mine currently revs at 1950 ish at 100 with 3.23's
Yours currently revs at 2300 at 100 with 3.7's
So, with these comparicsons, applied to a calculator, i came up with my car with 4:11's will revs 27% faster at 100kmh, which equals 2475 ish rpm.

I think i can handle that.

 

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Well... Glad i could help :)

 

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Does this mean that the top speed of your car might be 150-160ish due to tail shaft issues? If so can you put a replacement tail shaft in that will handle high speed?

I have an alloy tailshaft atm, can you get them balanced?

Sorry to 'steal' this thread, but I am sure others would be interested about this too.

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The EL Ghia ECU has now limited the car to approx 158km/hr (has a speedo corrector).
Went down willowbank drag strip to find that out.
Before the diff gears/speedo corrector, the speed limiter was 210km/hr, as done in a burnout :D (Yes, it was legal)

 

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Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 8:54 pm 
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FLASH wrote:
FairmontXR6, have you corrected your speedo? it just seems weird as my 5 speed with 3.7's sits at 2300 at 100km/h.

As previously mentioned on the first page of the post (and above), my EL Ghia has a Four Speed Automatic.

 

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Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 9:19 pm 
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FairmontXR6 wrote:
The EL Ghia ECU has now limited the car to approx 158km/hr (has a speedo corrector).
Went down willowbank drag strip to find that out.


you would have had to run mid 14's to find that out at Willowbank :wink:
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