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PantsDants · 10-15-2013, 11:06 PM

SUCCESS!

Everything went together very smoothly. The only minor hiccup we ran into was that the IS300 carrier has axle stubs on it (the big wheel looking things on the sides) and the FR-S version does not. The IS300's axles are shorter and actually bolt onto these, whereas the FR-S axles just shove straight into the carrier. The spline pattern on the FR-S axle is identical to what's on the axle stubs though, so it's just a matter of popping them out.

As for my impressions of driving it, I can't give a full review just yet. Since the gears are brand new, they have to be broken in for a few hundred miles before I can really get on it. Just from babying it on the way home though, the only way I can describe it is that it feels like there's just less resistance to accelerate. Like the engine had been walking around with weights on and it just took them off.

I can't detect any gear noise coming from the back. Also the speedo is still dead on and the transmission shifts where it used to. Just higher revs while cruising on the freeway now, (sitting at almost exactly 2500 rpm when going 65) which on the stock exhaust is not any louder than where it was before. So far so good! I'll add more after I can have some real fun with it. I guess this was a complete success!

Now about those 3.9 gears... Who wants them?

10-15-2013, 11:06 PM	#90
PantsDants Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2013 Drives: Scion FR-S A/T, Whiteout Location: Seattle Posts: 334 Thanks: 57 Thanked 221 Times in 90 Posts Mentioned: 16 Post(s) Tagged: 2 Thread(s)	SUCCESS! Everything went together very smoothly. The only minor hiccup we ran into was that the IS300 carrier has axle stubs on it (the big wheel looking things on the sides) and the FR-S version does not. The IS300's axles are shorter and actually bolt onto these, whereas the FR-S axles just shove straight into the carrier. The spline pattern on the FR-S axle is identical to what's on the axle stubs though, so it's just a matter of popping them out. As for my impressions of driving it, I can't give a full review just yet. Since the gears are brand new, they have to be broken in for a few hundred miles before I can really get on it. Just from babying it on the way home though, the only way I can describe it is that it feels like there's just less resistance to accelerate. Like the engine had been walking around with weights on and it just took them off. I can't detect any gear noise coming from the back. Also the speedo is still dead on and the transmission shifts where it used to. Just higher revs while cruising on the freeway now, (sitting at almost exactly 2500 rpm when going 65) which on the stock exhaust is not any louder than where it was before. So far so good! I'll add more after I can have some real fun with it. I guess this was a complete success! Now about those 3.9 gears... Who wants them?