Out back, our Ronin Speedworks Ford Explorer 8.8” differential setup looks equally as fantastic. The Ronin subframe adapter system that we installed in Part-16 looks great fully powdercoated like the front subframe, along with the rear suspension being vapor blasted and filled with SuperPro polyurethane bushings. The Driveshaft Shop “Direct-Fit” Axles and Eaton Detroit Truetrac limited slip differential complete our rear-end, which should be capable of more power than we are going to throw at it.
To attach our drivetrain, we turned to Driveshaft Shop for their 3” Aluminum driveshaft designed to adapt the Fisch Racing Tech CD009 transmission to the Ronin Speedworks Explorer 8.8” differential.
The front of the driveshaft uses a CD009 yoke from a Nissan 350Z.
The rear of the driveshaft uses a Ford Explorer differential flange.
The driveshaft flanges and yoke fit perfectly the first time. After these photos were taken, the correct differential bolts arrived.
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Every update on this project is fantastic! Keep up the good work and keep all of us entertained with this awesome build as most of us go into the cold months with much less track action.
Absolutely love this build series, my dream car
Still a very exemplary build.
One thing though. The trans crossmember looks unnecessarily complex for a simple part. If You really need to make it from billet, mill it from one single piece. The bolt-together construction is just silly. This part could have been made from steel 2x thinner and just welded.
Milling it from a single piece would be extremely expensive and actually more complex. from what it looks, the current design is just cut out from an aluminum sheet on a CNC router. And this aluminum design looks sick.
Kakui!!! (Cool!!)
It is crazy how physically tiny that rotary engine is! It’s literally smaller than the transmission!