I was there at the street heat event and saw it break, definitely a crappy deal. All my buddies wanted me to run my 05 CTS-V there but I refused to with the rear end made of butterfly wings and paper mache. I was going to come by and check it out but I figured you were having a rough night so I figured it was best not to.

 

If we all wised up and ran the car like it was intended, we wouldn't be hearing these stories. Sometimes, compromises need to be made with heavy cars that have a lot of torque.

I have been doing track (road course) events for years now and haven't had any problems, nor will I, because I don't launch the car and shock the driveline.

I feel bad for the OP, but all of our V1s just went down in value a little bit more because of things like this...

 

This is certainly not true! If anything, the value of my car went up because I'm going to be dumping $1400 into the Gen. IV diff! LOL

I would rather blow it having fun with the car, then not have any fun at all. Sure I was a little embarassed, but no big deal!

There were a few other V's there as well, they were running low 13's, and one new one that ran I think a mid-high 11? So it's not like I'm the only one out there "abusing" the car.



Hey man, no sweat. I just laughed it off. My buddy with an '04 Terminator blew his differential out there one night too, so I'm just a part of the club now!

Never be shy about saying hey to someone!

I also noticed the other V's stopped running their cars after one or two more passes after I broke mine lol

I should have a replacement here by the weekend, and then I'll be dropping in a Gen. IV.


Also, I never got around to doing the differential fluid after I got the car, this just gives me a reason to finally get under there and take care of that, too! :-P

-meaty

 

The ONE good thing about this scenario is at least it didn't break and NEW fluid wasn't dribbling out. lol

When my first gen 1 04 diff blew I had to watch all my new fluid dump out on the street...fn booo!

 

I think yours is one of the few rare ones that broke the front of the case and not the side.

 

Seriously. No offense but one of the main reasons I don't race anymore is because of too many noobs out there.

It does suck but it sounds like you will be back up and running again soon!

 

I'm not gonna lie, the last time I was out at the track was ~10 years ago. Literally.


So my temporary replacement will be here tomorrow, any recommendations on some diff fluid?

-meaty

 

I kind of want to purposely blow up my factory diff so that way I have a good excuse to go with a 9" G Force lol

 

I've seen plenty break in the same spot....including my first one....





Then all the way up the top....
It fell apart upon removal

 

Yeah, that.

I'm a firm believer in replacing a part that breaks with something much better in it's place.

 

That's fine, just don't do it in front of a thousand spectators!

 

Picked up some Amsoil 75w140 SevereGear tonight!

Got the diff in without UPS breaking it before I could!

Now I just gotta get to bed so I can be up early to install it!

-meaty

 

Like a DUMBASS I showed this vid to the wife....Her response was "NOW, watch this everytime you wanna go race your car". Probably not a bad idea

 

Thanks for this comment, I was just about to show my wife but have now decided not to lol.

 

Ah, reminds me of when my stock 04 diff let go. Broke the same way... broken off in front and then split clear up over the top. Have had no problems with the 4th gen diff, but I don't believe that one to be unbreakable, so I avoid hard launches.

 

Youve gotta start somewhere

 

I think everythings done.

Havent taken it out for a test drive.

I took 4 ibuprofen... now I need some sleep and a massage... ugh.

I havent worked this hard on a car in a looong time.

-meaty

 

I was there and saw that happen. The staff and the announcer starting lecturing on getting over to the side in the event of a failure. I knew before you explained yourself what was going on in your head so I did not hold it against you.

 

lol well I appreciate it.

When the diff blew, inside the car, it felt as if I didn't have the car in gear all the way, and it just popped out of gear. I had that happen once when a friend was in the car and it scared the crap out of her. Sounded exactly the same.

I still felt like a turd for having to make everyone wait for so long AGAIN after they just resprayed the lanes.

-meaty

 

I used to travel to the track with a spare differential with my 05 for this exact reason. In the end, the Gen1 never failed but I did swap it out with a Gen 4 so I could launch with a little less fear. As for the pulling over, it would likely not help much with the track prep, anyway. When the diff goes, it pretty much dumps all the fluid right away. That diff fluid is a pain to clean up. I recall some threads in the past where some tracks stopped allowing Gen 1 CTS-V's on the track due to a couple of bad experiences.