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TR-6 Rear driveshaft/hub up-date

I just got off the phone with the guy who's doing this. He's finished the design, and is ready to start fabrication. They should be ready in a couple of weeks.

For those of you who asked about the specs, I got some info from him which I'll post below. Just remember I have nfi - I'm just ordering a set, and I let the guy who does it for a living pick the pieces...

Parts are all NEW. Vehicles are just so you know what they would have been fitted to as OE.

CV Joints - from an early Porsche 928, custom work to reduce OD from 4" to 3.8".

Outer bearing housing (the 6-bolt bit that bolts to the swingarm) is custom.

The shaft is custom.

The wheel flange is from a Taurus, redrilled for the bolt pattern. (I'm assured this will hold up - think SHO Taurus)

Bearings are all 1 piece as fitted to the Taurus (again). Easy to replace and cheap.

Conversion is a direct bolt in. Nothing from your old hubs is used. The description was "just torque to 180 ft/lbs and drive off".

I'll post pics when they arrive if anyone wants to see them.


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Re: TR-6 Rear driveshaft/hub up-date

Alana,

You are running the R200 Diff correct? If so are the halfshafts being made to bolt up to that or are you running the TR6 Diff adapter plates, so that the custom halfshafts are "exact" copies of the TR axles.

I would love to see pictures when you get the pieces in and also what was the damage to the wallet, if you don't mind? I will be buying a set from CV joints this month or the next.

Thanks
 
Re: TR-6 Rear driveshaft/hub up-date

By all means, please let us see pics when you get it - sounds like something I like to pick up at some point
 
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It's being set to bolt up to the stock triumph differential. My R200 is from Goodparts and was already redrilled to match the stock TR. No adapters, no nothing. This is all custom, so I specified that it has to match stock, and both sides have to remain hub centric as they are now. It should be a simple bolt in job to swap.

He's guaranteeing fit, but because it's custom (and specced for 3x stock hp) I only get a 6mo warranty. I figure I'll know pdq if there are problems though.

Cost was just under $1500 for the pair.
I'll know the exact # when he finishes the work and ships back my old rear and the new ones. He seems like a pretty decent guy to talk to so if you want it changing for bigger studs or whatever it ought to be easy to get him to do.

I did say that there may be more interest, so he ought to be able to do the next set a bit quicker than the 3 months for mine! I'll post pics when the things arrive. I'll try to attach the pdf he sent me of the cad, but without dimensions it's pretty worthless.
 

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Re: TR-6 Rear driveshaft/hub up-date

Alan, sounds good, thanks for your work on this. Any chance that if there are multiple orders the price will come down---the way it seems right now with shipp/handling and ins. it is going to be around $1,600, that is getting close to the delivered Moss price, it may be a little bit of a hard sell for us average guys.
 
Re: TR-6 Rear driveshaft/hub up-date

ALLAN

Frankly I have no idea. You are welcome to call and ask - I'm sure that he'll be more receptive to the idea if someone else calls about the same thing, especially as he's starting to make them right now.

His name is Kevin Yutani - 1-800-889-2953.

Just as an fyi: The moss ones are 569uk each right now.

That makes them $985 each plus shipping at current exchange rates and either 10% or 30% tax (classic part vs non-classic part depending on labelling).

These are a fairly decent discount from that, and in line with the corvair conversion discussed in a different thread. There is also the unquantifiable benefit of having someone in the US to send them to if there is a problem.

ymmv as always.
Alan
 
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Good point about the U.S., thanks for the info, everybody thats interested needs to call this guy, Ill try and get ahold of him about a group rate.
 
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I spoke to Kevin and he is willing to pass on any discounts of mass production, I mentioned making 6 pairs. Obviously they would need to be definite orders. He said he would let me know when he gets the first pair done.
 
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The first pair are MINE!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: TR-6 Rear driveshaft/hub up-date---P O L L

I also just talked to Kevin, he gave me a ball park figure of 10% discount on a order of 10 or more he also said if he ended up with alot of orders(50+) there could be alot bigger discount. We need to take a poll here and find out how many are willing to go in on a group buy, can some one that does the 6pack forum pass the word and get back to this site with how many would be in.(any other forums or sources also) This cant be a mabey it has to be ones who could write a check for the full amount. It looks like with a 10% discount we are looking at around $1,300. for a pair. I tried to buy alana s but the guy wouldnt do it!!. O.K. who is in? P L E A S E R E S P O N D. p.s. of course we probably need to see how Alan's fits or works before we order.
 
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Just as an fyi - he takes credit cards.
I just gave him my number over the phone and he's charging amex when it's ready. I'm a lazy sod - I hate writing checks - I always end up having to buy stamps...

Oh and I threw up a link to this on 6-pack.
 
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No response yet?? going back to the old posts, here is a list of who showed interest in this. alana----71tr----michalotti_tr----Last Dead Last----crj7driver---beez---bobh----ALLAN. Already this would be enough for a discount. Who is in?
 
Re: TR-6 Rear driveshaft/hub up-date---P O L L

I am in for sure. As for making them in different lengths, I know he can handle that. Just for clarification theses half-shafts are going to include a new hub for the IRS and I am not sure how that applies to other cars. But if they share the parts that are machined I am sure it would help the discount.
 
Re: TR-6 Rear driveshaft/hub up-date---P O L L

I suspect so. You'd have to send him one - or at the very least the measurements I guess. The pair he's making for me at the original just under $1500 price is the cost to have a one-off custom set of halfshafts and hubs made up. I can't see it costing much more than that no matter what you have done.

Then again I'm writing the check not doing the work so I can't say for sure...
 
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I've been watching this thread and yes I am very interested in a group buy. I have one issue though: I too have the Nissan LSD and I know for a fact that the passenger side output flange on the diff sticks out more than the driver side, so basically on any surface, the passenger side axle is compressed more than the driver side. I had purchased new axles from Moss which had "screw on" grease seals on the female axle, I had to remove the seals on the axles to make them work with the Nissan because of unevenness of the output flanges.

Since Alana has the same setup that I do, I was waiting until he got his working before I ordered mine.

I would hate to spend 1500 clams on these new axles for them not to work on my particular setup.
 
Re: TR-6 Rear driveshaft/hub up-date---P O L L

Shannon - how much further does it stick out?

Remember I haven't seen my car since it went off to the shop to get the back end welding work done in November (I won't mention the engine as it's too frustrating - bloody custom parts).

The CV guy is reverse engineering stock from one I sent him, so it ought to be ok, but I think I'd better warn him about this before he gets too far in. He's guaranteeing fit, but it seems only fair to give him a heads up at least.

If you have a tape measure and a minute or two I'd appreciate the favour...

TIA, Alan
 
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i am very much interested in seeing pics and hearing about the quality of the work. Is this the only thing this guy does or does he have his own drive axle company?

i have called an left him a message but would like to hear from all of you as well.

Later
 
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