Havnt got any personal experience, but those EKK1 mounts you have are notorious for binding and breaking drive shafts.
How low is your car?
Thanks for reply Vvvtec.
And you are right on that. I have also "heard" and "read" about their notoriousness, but as mentioned in the 6 years of running them have been fortunate enough to not have dealt with it. So i'm quite relieved on that point.
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Admittedly, my car is not setup to beat records or anything like that. It's more of a nice daily cruiser that just happens to have a Kswap in it.
If i'm honest, not low enough for my liking.
My brother has always kept it at a dropped but reasonable height due to the fear of the oil sump being smashed.
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For reference, it sits with a gap between the guard and tyre still.
6 years is definitely a long time. So I do think I have been fortunate with the reliability and strength shown so far.
Interesting link. Will read up on that more during lunch break.
Thanks for sharing.
Shoot. Forgot to reply to the question.
Uhhh. As for a lot of modifications? I'm not sure what you're referring to there?
The swap per say is a regular K Swap. Nothing too outrageous if that's what you were referring to.
I've gone through one set.
Although they were on there for about 6 years (since the swap was in the car), and weakened when I put stickier tyres on and probably due to driving the car a little bit more spiritedly (track days,etc) then my brother did.
Why is that?
when you say snapped, be specific in what area of driveshaft snapped.
did the shaft itself break, cv crowns bind or ?
how low is your car sitting? take a pic of driveshaft angle while car on ground
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when you say snapped, be specific in what area of driveshaft snapped.
did the shaft itself break, cv crowns bind or ?
how low is your car sitting? take a pic of driveshaft angle while car on ground
It didn't actually snap.
More like really really worn and making the ticking noises and feeling the vibrations whilst driving.
I'd imagine it would be near binding at close to/at full lock turning.
We would be wasting a fair whack of energy running these shafts at these angles.. I've seen worse than the above too. Funny thing is Williams ran some stupid angles on their F1 car a few years ago.
Constant velocity joints are ideally meant to run at a level angle and on the same axis as the output of the gearbox to the wheels. Anything out of this range will incur a loss.
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