Pull the front wheels with a stock T56?
Pull the front wheels with a stock T56? I didnt know whether I should ask this question here or in the Manual Trans forum. I flipped a coin. 
I am curious, has anyone pulled the front wheels off the ground when launching, while running a stock T56 behind an LS' motor?
If you have, could you please post brief details on your setup, dyno'ed whp, launch RPM, wheel and tire choices and any other details you can spare?
Thanks guys and girls.
I am curious, has anyone pulled the front wheels off the ground when launching, while running a stock T56 behind an LS' motor?
If you have, could you please post brief details on your setup, dyno'ed whp, launch RPM, wheel and tire choices and any other details you can spare?
Thanks guys and girls.
I would leave with a single wheel up with this setup:
TR224 .563/.563 112lsa
stock heads with upgraded valvetrain
stock ls1 intake
stock front supsension
9" w/ 4.11 gear
BMR adjustable torque arm mounted to cross memeber
CE rear shocks
UMI rod ended LCA's
UMI SFCs
26x11.5 ET street (16.5 psi cold)
6200rpm side step
stock t56
textralia clutch
skinnies on front with swaybar removed.
with the same setup on a 75 shot it left with both wheels up pretty good. A friend said both were roughly a foot off the ground.
TR224 .563/.563 112lsa
stock heads with upgraded valvetrain
stock ls1 intake
stock front supsension
9" w/ 4.11 gear
BMR adjustable torque arm mounted to cross memeber
CE rear shocks
UMI rod ended LCA's
UMI SFCs
26x11.5 ET street (16.5 psi cold)
6200rpm side step
stock t56
textralia clutch
skinnies on front with swaybar removed.
with the same setup on a 75 shot it left with both wheels up pretty good. A friend said both were roughly a foot off the ground.
stock trans has nothing to do with it at all. beefy T56 will have a longer lifespan rather than add to performance on any given pass down the track.
in 2004 my car carried the tires a foot in the air every time with a bonestock T56 in it. car had 5.3 heads, g5x2 cam, 78mm fast intake, headers/exhaust, 9" rear with 4.71's in it(pulled the fronts just as hard with 4.10's at first), denny's N20 driveshaft, spec stage 3i clutch and flywheel.
in 2004 my car carried the tires a foot in the air every time with a bonestock T56 in it. car had 5.3 heads, g5x2 cam, 78mm fast intake, headers/exhaust, 9" rear with 4.71's in it(pulled the fronts just as hard with 4.10's at first), denny's N20 driveshaft, spec stage 3i clutch and flywheel.
I have. 462rwhp/413tq H/C car. I do have a Textralia clutch and a 9 inch in the car however. The car did have billet slider keys and brass shift pads but those don't have anything to do with the launch. And now... Going with a face plated, viper input, cryo treated tranny this year.
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Ever watched the tosto brothers on pinks? The red one is a t56 w/ ls motor. He pulls them sky high. Why are you wanting to do wheelies? It just tears stuff up, plus slows you down. Better to go forward than up. jmo
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Yes I have seen the red Tosto car run. I dont necessarily want to do them it is just that if I had to pick one "weak link" in my car, it would be the stock tranny. Granted it only has 25k miles on it, everthing else in the drivetrain is built like a brick shithouse, except for the tranny. I didnt know if I would be yanking one up, or tearing **** up. I will be running ET Streets initially, not full slicks so I have been told that, not running full-on slicks helps save stock 6-speeds.
Thanks guys for the replies. This helped a lot. Peace.
Thanks guys for the replies. This helped a lot. Peace.
Wasn't aware he had a stock t56... I thought he had a pro-shift of face-plated t-56 and I also thought he had gears taken out of it as well.
When it comes to the t-56, the weak link (for me anyways) seems to be the input shaft. I snapped 2 of them with a bolt-on car. The tranny should hold up fine, just get your suspension set and enjoy. Eventually you will have to do some work on your tranny, but that is its nature.
