My slicks of doom
05-24-2009, 03:15 PM
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My slicks of doom My slicks of DOOM as people have called them may have wasted my tru trac in my MOSER 9 inch at the rental friday, the rear was acting like a spool when driving around in the pits, i just figured it was due to being on the slicks, raced with no problems, went to go home on the drag radials and it was still shuddering when turning, but when straight no problems or resistance.
hoping a fluid change will cure itm but not really optimistic
hoping a fluid change will cure itm but not really optimistic
05-24-2009, 03:35 PM
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Nice pics Cheffer....That sux about the tru track. I remeber how it was with the locker tho. I would just replace the true track with another before going back to the locker. We don't go to the track enough to justify another locker...
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is a tru trac gear type posi or clutch type? i have stock clutch type. i have welded my clutch packs together from abuse lol. put a new set of clutches in last year and has been holding up well for the time being
05-24-2009, 04:48 PM
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It's whats called a worm gear setup.
thechef-Hope a fluid change helps ya, I've got a good bit of 6K rpm launches on my tru-trac with no issues so far, but I've heard the stories both good and very very bad.
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05-24-2009, 05:31 PM
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that sucks, when I do my rear I'm just going for the spool instead of posi unit so I dont end up breaking the posi unit. Thats looks like a pretty good launch, what rpm were you launching at?
05-24-2009, 08:25 PM
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I was in Boston at the game all day but let me say this. That is exactly wht happend to my tru trac while USING YOUR SLICKS!!!
Sean changing that Tru Trac for another will do nothing but cost him 650$ and it will break again. Spool it or go back to a Eaton HD unit. JL's lived for a LONG time and he sold it.
Sean changing that Tru Trac for another will do nothing but cost him 650$ and it will break again. Spool it or go back to a Eaton HD unit. JL's lived for a LONG time and he sold it.
05-25-2009, 02:17 PM
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Chef has been plagued with nitrous issues, damn setup works one day and not the next. Somewhere tehre's a loose wire or something.
Car went 11.90 n/a with the nitrous tune in it, knowing where the timing and whatnot is that's probably 40 hp down from where it would be if the timing and whatnot wasn't pulled back. 99K on the stock shortblock there's no need to go getting aggressive with it at this point.
Once we get the wiring issue solved, car's going strait to a 11.0x-10 second pass I'm sure of it.
I'm voting spool if the fluid change doesn't solve it. I've seen that tru-junk break too many times to want to even take the chance with another one IMO. Spool isn't a big deal, just have to get used to startign out strait then turning the wheel and it will be fine.
Either that, or a regular eaton posi that we can at least rebuild!
Car went 11.90 n/a with the nitrous tune in it, knowing where the timing and whatnot is that's probably 40 hp down from where it would be if the timing and whatnot wasn't pulled back. 99K on the stock shortblock there's no need to go getting aggressive with it at this point.
Once we get the wiring issue solved, car's going strait to a 11.0x-10 second pass I'm sure of it.
I'm voting spool if the fluid change doesn't solve it. I've seen that tru-junk break too many times to want to even take the chance with another one IMO. Spool isn't a big deal, just have to get used to startign out strait then turning the wheel and it will be fine.
Either that, or a regular eaton posi that we can at least rebuild!
05-26-2009, 07:48 AM
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Yes the car ran a 11.90 @ 112 or 113mph i dont remember best pass for the day with alot of timing pulled for the NOS which for some reason didn't work
im sure its something stupid like a loose connection or something But if there ever was a day i wanted my own tuning software it was at the track i could have loaded the motor tune back in and ran faster NA...oh wellthere will be NO roll bar going in this car at least not in the near future, and a POSI will go back in if a fluid change doesnt fix the current problem, i dont go to the track enough for a spool, but after that rental i do have a real bug to strat running my 100k mile car alot
just got to fine the money to do it.All in all i was able to drive the car home and that is always a good thing, got to hang with friends and any day of racing is better than a day of working
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05-26-2009, 08:19 AM
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No wheelies this time i was NOT trying to do that, that was on the street shock settings we just changed to the slicks and skinnies, next time we will lossen the front and stiffen the rear a bit, OH and after i make a call to MADMAN for a set of SYA Bars i will make the changes
05-26-2009, 09:45 AM
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I think with all of these problems you have with those wheels/tires, you should just sell them to me cheap to rid yourself of the headaches! 
Nice job, Friday. That car was squatting like crazy. I would love to see what my car with do with that shock/wheel/tire setup. Down the road it will definitely happen.
Nice job, Friday. That car was squatting like crazy. I would love to see what my car with do with that shock/wheel/tire setup. Down the road it will definitely happen.
