I am going to be getting a custom driveshaft made for my car and I was going to be needing a flange for my car. I have 96 sc300 and it has the rubber boot with the Y (3 spoke) flange. What other flange will bolt up to my current differential without much modification? Thank you.

I was told by the local shop to get rid of the rubber adapter because it will wear out much faster then another type of flange.

 

I have access to a MKIII differential does anyone know if that flange would work? Thanks

 

the rubber thing is called a guibo. BMW uses them in all their modern cars, it eats some of the driveline shock from hard shifts in a FR car, its not a bad thing.

keeping the guibo is in the best interest of 95% of the people out there

 

TL, u got pm. Also, if you're going turbo, the Guibo is a disaster waiting to happen..

 

have you killed one before? ive worn out multiple on bmw's and never regretted having it. makes the driveline smoother, perhaps you may not care about smoothness and NVH, i do

 

Yeah I am going to be boosting hopefully this year. Thanks for the PM.

 

I understand what it should be doing and no I haven't shattered one yet, but running near stock I looked at my current one and I have some pretty good tares on it.

 

I got some pictures of what I would like to do and see if it's possible.
Our SC's have this:

I would like this on it:

To make it easier could I pull the original SC flange off and slap on the one from the second picture?

 

You may want somthing like this to replace the rubber flex-coupler. Try PowerhouseRacing.


gadgetSC

 

First of all, go and take a look at the one you have. Personally, when i took mine out, it was all cracked and dry, it looked like it was about to go. My car has only 90,000 miles. Second of all, none of the moderate powered supra run them, why? because they granulate them after few launches. Last but not least, i have the alloy adapter and my ride is as smooth as ever!

 

I went through three of them before finally going with a custom driveshaft. There will be some vibration around 60 mph without them but if you're making some good power you will need one.

 

I had vibration before the conversion and that hasn't increased, so no complaints here...

 

90k miles is a fair amount of miles. also, its rubber, supposed to be replaced, its a oem wear item. if your sc is a 98, its a 10 year old used rubber at best.

 

While you're at it, get the steel adapter! It makes sense to me and anybody who runs more than 150 whp

 

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