4:77's & 35's...some stats...

[PK]

The mileage on the trip odo will be multiplied by .07, that number is added to the miles on the trip odo, then that total (actual miles driven) is divided by the number of gallons used.

There ya go Mate, fixed it for ya.

Sorry Larry.
I am a pedantic prick when it comes to calculations.

PK

[nfpgasmask]

Weird, 7% is the number I came up with (and subsequently have programed into my Scan Guage II) to calculate my actual speed with my 2" lift and 265 tires.

Dub, you should consider the Scan Guage becuase you can program it and have it read out your actual speed.

I'm sure you are loving that locker. Putting the Aussie in my Trooper made a HUGE difference offroad.

Bart

[Ldub]

There ya go Mate, fixed it for ya.

Sorry Larry.
I am a pedantic prick when it comes to calculations.

PK

No worries Mate, I appreciate the hedzup...

I wen go back & fix um, so nobody get it wrong.

[Ldub]

Weird, 7% is the number I came up with (and subsequently have programed into my Scan Guage II) to calculate my actual speed with my 2" lift and 265 tires.

Dub, you should consider the Scan Guage becuase you can program it and have it read out your actual speed.

I'm sure you are loving that locker. Putting the Aussie in my Trooper made a HUGE difference offroad.

Bart

Yep...7.3% is what I get on the Miata tire calc when using your tire size vs OEM.

But you know me well enough to know of my eternal skepticism of the accuracy of everything...

So I have no choice but to do a road trip while Hunny keeps track of the mile markers...

Also, when calculating (on intrweb tire calcs) the difference between stock & 35's, I found a 1-2% discrepancy in their % values.
I'm sure they use a baseline calc, & there are certainly differences in actual size from one manufacturer to the others. Possibly due to tread depth etc.
When I switch over to my 18's, I'll be double check'n it all again...

Unfortunately, I haven't had a chance to eval the difference the locker makes off road. But she DOES leave some very nice equal length digs when I NAIL IT in the gravel parking lot @ work...

I'm hoping to do some extensive testing up north this fall...

ESPECIALLY on ski jump hill & upper money talks...

http://www.vehicross.info/forums/sho...=ski+jump+hill

[Triathlete]

Then when your done playing there maybe you can find something with a little difficulty to really test it on!

[Ldub]

Then when your done playing there maybe you can find something with a little difficulty to really test it on!

If it crawls up ski jump, I'll feel pretty satisfied...

As you well know, pics never do justice to steepness/difficulty.

As Steve mentioned, ski jump is not only moderately steep, but usually very LOOSE in the traction department...

I've been there on days when, IIRC, no one made it up.

[rowhard]

locker finally wrenched into the machine,.

so where did you finally find it, or would you rather not say

[nfpgasmask]

so where did you finally find it, or would you rather not say

Aussie Lockers can be bought direct from Indy4x.com, its the 4.77s that are hard to locate....

Bart

[Ldub]

so where did you finally find it, or would you rather not say

Aussie Lockers can be bought direct from Indy4x.com, its the 4.77s that are hard to locate....

Bart

There's a little back story to this that Bart hasn't heard...yet...

In the final hrs of moving out of our old apt, the locker in question was sitting on the L-R floor, wrapped in a plastic grocery bag.
Well, you know how it goes sometimes...in a hurry to get out of the old place & start moving in to the new.
For whatever reason, the locker was left sitting on the L-R floor. I didn't even miss it, until I went to gather up all the bits for the install.
I was able to locate all the peripheral stuff...shims, new bearings, ring gear bolts, etc, but NO locker. (It was pre installed in an open carrier that I bought used from Indy)
I eventually searched EVERYWHERE, went through the garage 3 times, the apt at least twice, even looked in some RIDICULOUS places, like under the bed & under the bathroom sink...

Finally, as a last ditch effort, I called my old landlord.

He said that the guy who did the repainting of the old abode had it, but didn't know for sure where he was, as he had since moved out of state.

Knowing that the old L-L was not the most motivated fellow I've ever met, I offered him $100.00 if he could track it down.

Yeah...the right thing to do would have been to call me when it was found, but that's not in the cards for some types of folks...

In any event, I called him up about a week later, & guess what...

He had the locker, & I drove over & picked it up.

I'm pretty sure the old L-L had it the whole time, & was just hoping to extort $ome jing from your's truly, but it was still cheaper than ordering a new one.

So...in the end, I have the mo$t expen$ive Aussie Locker on the N American continent...lucky me...

[nfpgasmask]

Ahhhh, I see. For a minute I was concerned that Aussie Lockers were hard to find now!

Bart

[tom4bren]

For whatever reason, the locker was left sitting on the L-R floor.

I think we did that with one of our cats one time.

[Triathlete]

I think we did that with one of our cats one time.

In a plastic bag?

[tom4bren]

In a plastic bag?

Pick the right answer:

1. I have no response to that.

2. Actually Dad 'accidentally' shut it in one of the kitchen cabinets (found the following day when getting the next load).

3. My zombie kitty experiment was an utter failure.

[Ldub]

Ahhhh, I see. For a minute I was concerned that Aussie Lockers were hard to find now!

Bart

They ARE...if you're me...

Pick the right answer:

1. I have no response to that.

2. Actually Dad 'accidentally' shut it in one of the kitchen cabinets (found the following day when getting the next load).

3. My zombie kitty experiment was an utter failure.

All of the above...ding-ding-ding...GOOD answer...Big money...

[Ldub]

First mileage ciphers...

After burning through a half tank, I filled up today.

Initial mileage looks promising, with a combined (mostly city, maybe 1/4 highway) mileage of over 13.

That would have been 10-11 before.

Can't wait to do some highway only tests.