When I finally got my hands on that passenger side axle, I was stoked to have it back in one piece. The dealer had given me a pretty sweet deal, and I could tell they were trying to get rid of it since it was already broken. But hey, I wasn't about to let it go without giving it some love.

As I took the axle out of its box, I noticed that it still had all the necessary parts and hardware attached to it. There was even a washer on the axle nut that I hadn't seen before, which seemed like a good sign that it had been properly assembled at the factory. I made a mental note to check the other side's axle nut as well, just in case.

The dealer handed me the passenger-side axle and told me it was all mine. "Take this one too," they said, handing me the driver's side axle that had broken off earlier. "Just in case you need it." I appreciated their honesty, knowing that sometimes these things can be finicky and break easily if you're not careful.

As we headed back to the shop to install the new axles, I couldn't help but think about all the crazy things I'd been putting my car through lately. From drifting to burnouts, I knew that this axle had to be able to handle it all. The dealer assured me that they were designed for high-performance driving and would be able to keep up with my antics.

But as we got back to work, I realized that the axles weren't going to solve all of our problems. We still needed to deal with the tricky rack steering system, which had been a major pain point for us from the start. James, the shop owner, had actually modified it himself to make it more reliable, but even he admitted that it was a bit of a hack job.

Just as we were finishing up the installation, Ryan and his crew pulled in with their E30 LS swap project. They were working on installing a new turbocharger, and we couldn't help but geek out over all the modifications they were making. Meanwhile, John pulled up in his daily Subaru Forester, which was actually a pretty sweet ride.

As we waited for our car to be finished, James mentioned that he had installed two axles for each side of my car - one in case the other one broke during testing. I laughed, knowing that this was a bold move on James' part. But hey, if it meant we could get more seat time and fine-tune the car's performance, then I was all for it.

Finally, the moment arrived when we were ready to put my car through its paces. We headed out to the free track, where Ryan and John would be joining us soon with their own projects. As we started up the car, I couldn't help but feel a mix of excitement and nerves. This was going to be a wild ride.

As we pulled onto the track, James reminded me that I needed to use the lower gear to get the wheels spinning before trying any donuts. "And make sure you're not too aggressive," he cautioned, knowing full well how easily my car could spin out of control. But I was determined to push it to the limit.

With a loud roar, we hit 60mph and started to feel the wheels spinning beneath us. The car was responding beautifully, and I could feel its power coursing through my veins. This was what it meant to be driving - raw, unbridled power that just left me breathless.

But as I pulled up for a donut, disaster struck. The rear axle began to spin out of control, and I felt the car start to slide sideways across the track. It was like a wild animal had taken over, refusing to listen to my commands.

Luckily, James' advice about keeping the axles from rolling came in handy, as I was able to wrestle the car back under control before it spun out completely. Still, it was a close call, and I knew that I needed to be more careful in the future.

As we finished up our session on the track, I couldn't help but feel a sense of accomplishment. We'd fine-tuned my car's performance, and now it was ready to take on whatever came next. With James' guidance and support, I knew that this was just the beginning of an exciting journey - one that would push me to new heights and test the limits of what my car could do.

In the end, we decided to head back to the shop for some more practice sessions before our next event. The axles were in, the rack steering system was tweaked, and my car was ready to roll. We spent a few hours fine-tuning everything, making sure that every system was working smoothly and efficiently.

As I drove away from the track, feeling the wind rushing past me and the sun shining down on my face, I couldn't help but smile. This was what it meant to be driving - freedom, power, and the thrill of the unknown. And with James' guidance and support, I knew that I'd never stop pushing the limits of what this car could do.

So if you ever see me at a track day or rally event, don't be surprised if you see my car flying around corners and taking on challenges that most cars would shy away from. That's just part of who I am - a driving enthusiast with a need for speed and a passion for pushing the limits of what's possible.

And as for James' shop? Well, let's just say it's been a wild ride for all of us involved. From broken axles to turbocharged engines, we've seen it all. But one thing's for sure - when you're part of this community, every day is an adventure waiting to happen.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enshe's smoking a little bit out of that well we just got the s14 all loaded up and we are getting ready to head over to the freedom factory go do some skids boys see if this thing will do a burnout or blow up do both in the process who knows what's going to happen but fire rod after the sickest skid i mean it'd be nice if it stayed together but you know whatever happens is going to happen and i'm excited to see the results give her hell give her hail oh we're going to send it back we're going to send it bud a little rainy out today what's the plan stan the plan is to send it it is a little wet out today you can tell it's been raining a little bit so it's going to be a little slick out there but you know we just want to come out here and see if this thing holds up to any sort of tire spinning out on the pad over here at the freedom factory regardless if there's a lot of tire smoke or not if something's going to break we want it to break now so we can address it but yeah we'll see how it goes we need to double check that the tune's on point we brought the laptop it is running a little rich on idle um but when me and why i took it out it felt like it was ripping pretty decent so you know we're just kind of going with the flow and see how it goes look who it is well hello there sir mine's signing this twice of course three times what's up this is kyle wyatt and these are terms keys cool dude you know the deal so you're ready to recover around yeah we'll see what i wouldn't say i'm ready but we're ready to try how spicy is she gonna get oh you got the sheer intercooler yeah actually this is his breath yeah it's basically just the bat rod but in a 240. cool seeing if it'll break the tires loose down here it's going to break the tires later may not break maybe something else we'll find out something's going to break brought your safety gear yeah yeah we're good stay out of the grass and you're good fire jacket pants yeah i'm gonna grab the fire equipment out wow you know fire season there's a high chance i might catch on dude i'm gonna get my fire extinguisher well dude fancy yeah you know just in case you catch us on fire maybe it's a good thing it's drizzling a little bit today yeah it'll help put the fire out actually the fire index is low today it's always low in florida guess we'll see if she does dude yeah i'm pretty excited i think he just said go out there and let her eat dude i mean i'm just gonna send it how it was if the air fuels aren't too far off i'm not that worried about it yeah i mean at least for today i mean when i mean you're super lean yeah i mean you were ripping it it would just be like that but yeah with tire spinning not actually moving the car right that's the theory behind it throw it right into a little spinny spin see what she does and if she's lean then check her out wayne is mean baby i'll just start ripping it if the air fuels look okay i'll just keep going with it i guess and if it doesn't look good then i'll stop and re-tune on it a little bit all right i think she'll be all right oh yeah air fuels look perfect riding 12-0 spicy little unit sounded good not bad not bad was second i think you gotta go for the third yeah when you stand at power over here you just let out it started to it started back funny right there but i'm gonna try it again overall it did it didn't do a burnout it did do a burnout indeed that was good it's a good sign so far i love how there's no alternator it's like the mystery machine right now yeah same thing not quite enough do what that felt so weird thumbnail has been captured oh yeah well she's smoking a little bit out of the tire the crank that's on a nice firewall it's gonna make for a great thumbnail yeah it's pretty stout but we got a lot of smoke out of the crankbait there i don't know i think you're like half clutch half tires the clutch was all the way out so i don't know if it's roasting the clutch no it would spin the tire the tire is good yeah it's just i think you're in first there's just not a lot of wheels no second yeah at once i think it just doesn't have enough for third but i don't know try try i tried 30 i know but try it while you're moving like in a in a left turn like just in here in the burnout pad and then you just try it from a roll with a little bit of turn to it kind of wicker in the third yeah what do you got going here uh we got a little smoke out of the positive crank for the event see you know we have nice things and then the booster boys come and we're probably not gonna be as nice oh really or broke the welds i don't know i'm gonna send it and let me know okay yeah it sounded like it was squealing up though just do a little burnout right here i think it might have broken an axle or the welds the axle or the welded diff you need a one tire fire that's what i thought dude like it felt a little funny that's why i stopped just had to go and break it should i just let that one tire go i think you ought to just sit here and do a burnout until it blows up let's get let's just give her a fat one tire fire real quick solid plan yeah yeah which one is it it's this one that's the one that's been at least for now yeah passenger one's broken um okay uh foreign um something i like how you guys test cars i too like to also break them in right dude i jumped in specifically for the thumbnail you did a bunny hop it was solid burnout yeah didn't do that i cleaned up some cars from everyone and it would have been embarrassing okay yeah we wanted to get some testing done really getting prepared i see we're trying to get that up we're just about ready to go friday at like 6 30 on the yeah yeah yeah very rainy day it really wasn't as bad as i thought i was worried we were gonna get here and be like pouring off that was perfect and then did the lap dude the one lap yeah with the one tire fire i mean it's beautiful pretty stout yeah yeah we're only going to need one tire actually here's here's the market that's where it started blue you can follow it all the way around that's all we needed for today i'll be putting this on ebay later kyle burnout retire can we get one of those little freedom factory cups yeah just scoop it in there business man hell yeah that was pretty good i mean it didn't blow up yeah that's all we needed it actually went better than i thought it would it went about how i thought it would i knew something would probably break and i'm glad it wasn't you know a rod coming out hey it'll still drive in the trailer yeah well with another welded they might be right if it is the diff or an axe we'll have to see because i remember when i welded the diff oh dang he's back there popping 180s dude the only trick i know dude i remember when we welded the diff they're like oh that'll never hold it might have just sealed its fate they might have been right but they lasted that whole day of drifting when it still had the sr-20 in it right so we'll see if it was an axle then that's whatever but if it's the diff it is what it is i have to throw some more welds in there compression in every hole come on baby that was pretty sick really good we came all the way down here that's all we needed kind of on a whim you know out of everything to break i would have not expected like an axle or dip yeah that is weird you can feel it pull the one yeah like when i took it around now the next thing we need to do is put the uh the two step on so we get some flamage yeah because right now i just have it way turned down so we don't blow it up but hit the two steps so when it's sitting there on its burnout on limiter just old cleat checking out his old trailer kyle has been a great great new father dude the diamond cargo still living the old dc dude there's a family heirloom now it's within the family you're like great grandson that's dc that's a quality product made in 2014 i got that back from cleator for sale they don't make them like they used to so i got the 240 back over here at the shopper friend ryan's using the lift right now for his ls swap e30 can like the driveshafts and stuff in uh but we found the issue so if you look under here i'm excited because my uh my dip is all right it is just i gotta grab that guy real quick we busted our axle yeah let's just spin that nothing oh it is spinning oh it's just been in the boot but not the actual shaft so yeah we just snapped an axle in the 240. luckily we uh know a guy that has many of spare axles he went through this a lot and he has some leftover axles so we're gonna get this one out and uh go meet up with a friend that you guys may or may not know and see if we can get a fresh axle for this thing now what you like to see dude decent rick we got a limp shaft just like that one day with the route to use hit the track noodle dude need some extends stiffen that right up no matter what we do well yeah so there's that so yeah screw you guys that said my diff wouldn't hold it broke the axle the welded diff it's fine don't broke her dude you don't did it i'm sure you're used to seeing this yeah a collection over here for you oh dang there they are um good thing we know a guy yeah we just gotta make sure because there's the driver passenger two different lengths so i didn't want you to be like oh i broke this one so now we just match it up with one that looks about right yeah that's it passenger deal you can also get away with running like with the spacers if you did drop one just make sure you put it back because what it does is it loads the cups i think when i pulled it it might have just been the there was a washer on the axle nut yeah i think that's what yeah but that's the same size one right there so okay cool just take this is a set so this is your driver's side not your passenger that's the one you broke just take that one too with you in case you sometimes when they they like twist and break can i affect the other side just so you have it i definitely appreciate it yeah yeah that one still takes those yeah yeah okay yeah so i got some spares i was gonna say you still have a use for them it's not like you completely got rid of them i mean i saw it once over at the shop but i didn't see it when it was all up and running um dude that thing sounds so mean were you out there drifting when it broke or were you just out there trying to do it i was just trying to do a burnout with these it's best to use the lower gear to get them spinning get them going first once the wheels are spinning you're fine it's when these things try to hook they don't take much i mean pretty sure i've had the fastest car on stock axles the unofficial record here a little micro records but it's one of those things it's get them wheels spin and then you can get that thing up in the third gear we had to do a lot of custom stuff to the rack i don't know if you saw how far we spaced it back but when we when we drove it out at the free when i was just kind of whipping it in little donuts it felt fine yeah i feel like i could drift it hard to see but this has like the same style spacer but it's only like an inch and a quarter inch the arrows are like six inches you made some six inches but the thing is though if you use a strong enough deal and you key it to where it can't roll that the biggest thing is is you know how even with the aftermarket ones i don't know if you ever noticed but a rack's keyed like at the end yeah the rack's cute so the rack can't turn and then we bolted it and then we welded okay so it can't so as long as you keep those from being able to roll yeah they can't you should be fine i mean yeah you can probably bend them over time from just side load but i don't think if you welded them to where they can't roll on them yeah they should be solid they have no signs of wear so far i've seen some stuff like some very janky stuff put out like that before and it just like works so it's like one of those things as long as they don't bend one of the top comments on that video is like this is the jankiest steering i've ever seen i was like you guys haven't seen everything then you can't knock it though it works you know that's one of those things but yeah i'm excited to get it back out and try it again i'll let you know we're gonna go we'll probably hit the track once or twice before the event to get more seat time all right just got the new axle from james installed so shout out to james for that guy right there ready set this thing back on the ground she's ready to try it again boys so i mentioned our friend ryan and they're working on uh ls swap e30 that's up on the lift this is our buddy john subaru forester it's slam he also has like a turbo mustang this is just his daily trailer all right new axel is in just texted the neighbor to ask if we could do a couple donuts real quick she said okay just don't crash through the fence because her husband's outside working so we got the green light on a couple donuts just want to do a couple just you know make sure that the other axle doesn't go because james said sometimes when the one side will go it can affect the other so he did actually give me two axles for either side so if the other one's gonna break right away then we're gonna we're just gonna do it right here so see if you can do a couple more downs real quick second big oops yeah definitely i need some more time but it starts to fall into its groove a little yeah we'll bring it back to the freedom factory and practice another day right you know she's good we'll end it off there yeah that's gonna be it for this video 240 all right broken axle got a new one and now it's ready to try to get you\n"