Run it. I know what you're saying about noisy, my diff howls real good. I just turn the radio up. Maybe someday it'll shred itself, but until then I'm not going to worry about it.

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Wait a minute! You're in Hilo, Hawaii and you're going to take long trips? On an island that's about 4000 square miles? I must be missing something.

Yes, it might break.
No, it might not break.

You're going to have to run it to find out. There are too many factors for anyone to say. Maintenamnce and driving style are two of the biggest issues.

15 years ago, I priced a new driveline for $225. Drivelines Northwest would put new ones in with snaprings for $200. Your mileage may vary.

It will depend on if you have a slipyoke in the tailshaft of your transmission and the length of your proposed one piece driveline. The driveline shops here won't balance a driveline longer than 5 feet.

It almost looks like they're glued in. If so, hopefully there's a snapring groove too. Use an o-ring pick and see if that's glue. If it is, a propane torch and a vise will get them out.

BMW and Honda have used Nikasil in their motorcycles for years. It's a nickel alloy plating that is extremely hard and wear resistent. There has been an issue with Nikasil and high sulfur (cheap) fuel that affected BMW engines. Usually you see the plating when they want to save a little weight and maybe cost by not running iron liners in an aluminum cylinder. It does look like chrome, almost. You can get your cylinders Nikasil plated, but with an iron block there really isn't a point in it. Datsun casts their iron blocks with a couple percent nickel, so the benefit is already there. I haven't heard or seen a plated intake, (inside). I would think a thermal coating would be more effective.

I was at the auto swapmeet here a couple weeks ago and there was a guy there that had so many different types of seals it made my head spin. I think my buddy got his biz card, I'll ask him.

It's interesting that the yellow car in the pics doesn't appear to have hubcaps, the white car has dog dish hubcaps and the only hubcaps I remember were the honeycomb ones.

Jaime, I'm interested to know how much performance you expect to gain by deleting 3-4 ounces of PCV and adding a couple of pounds of other gear. Give me a number, as in horsepower.



As I said before, I really doubt it will be measurable, neither in performance or efficiency but I'd like to hear your idea.