while racing the other day, I went airborne and when I came down I blew out the inboard CV joint of my driver side. I made the 5 lug swap a few years ago and I can't remember what axles I used. I ordered a 318ti axle on amazon, but when it arrived it was about an inch too long. fortunately, I was able to take the CV joint off and replaced the damaged CV joint with it so I am back running. Is there a post somewhere that compares axle lengths and flange bolt patterns. I need to figure out what axles I have.
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Richard
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318ti's use a small case diff because they're powered by an m42 engine. Assuming that since this is a race car, youre running a medium case diff so youll need an axle for an m20 powered e30. The splines for the hub should be the same iirc. -
As I said, I can't remember what I did when I put this together. It looks like I am using 318ti axles in order to have the abs work, but they are matched to the medium differential that I have, so I must have changed the outputs of the differential to the smaller ones from the small differential. I was able to go to a pick n pull and get axles from a 95 318ti that worked.Richard
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Good to know that those axles will work as long as diff flanges are swapped. My e30 has a big hole in the cv boot but the ti trailing arms I snagged also came with what look like pretty fresh axles.Comment
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