Whoa, I just lucked out in a pretty big way. On the way back from the maiden voyage (I guess the route back is still the maiden voyage), I broke the pipe sheath weld on my axle in the middle of traffic with just enough momentum to get to the turn only lane where I was headed. When the light turned green, I had to creep through the intersection. Luckily there was no one behind me and I managed to make it to the curb on the road I was going to without any near collisions or angry honking. Minutes earlier I had been working with a friend who just so happened to be driving a SUV towing an empty trailer. I called him up, we threw 'er on the trailer, and drove the ~5 blocks of shame back to my house (also luckily VERY close to where this transpired). Wheew! I'm going to have to get a machine shop to make my next axle or see if another type of axle happens to fit, and hope that I can swap the transmission side knuckle from the XFi. Never done that before, so that could be interesting...
Guess this sets back engine break in a little while. That axle will be a VERY critical piece of this car... probably should get a spare made while I'm at it.
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Shifting at 2500-2800 ish, gentle, but deliberate acceleration, etc.
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This kind of became evident as I drove it around. Starting off from 1st gear sounded pretty ugly, like it was painful for the engine. I also started driving it like I'd normally drive, and sometimes that didn't sound very good either. I can tell driving "normal" is a very valuable suggestion here.