Holy ****!! Lucky to keep it off a wall! Strange it would break then and not on launch?

 

I am very fortunate! Most of the time when a shaft breaks on the big end it doesn't result in a controled stop.

 

So do you think the rear U joint broke or what?

 

All the u-joints are still in perfect shape. Looks like the rear weight flew off the driveshaft and it self destructed

 

That's crazy man ! Glad your ok and the car to.
Sure sounds like the 8's are coming soon that's awesome!
Garrett

 

Carnage pix

 

crap!

 

hate to see it, its such a beautiful car! looks like the trans case too the brunt of the damage

 

As bad as the floor looks in the pix, I can actually bang it out and fix it pretty easy. I'm going to be welding in a much more robust front driveshaft loop anyhow. Considering mine got ripped out of the floor brace.

 

The damage to your car has me rethinking not installing 2 loops in my car.

 

Hell, I'm ready to add a 3rd!

 

Here is a video, can't see much on the top end. It was shot from a phone with no zoom.

 

Dam that sucks.Im about to get my drive shaft done so ill have to make sure they do a good job.

 

Your project looking good! I called the driveshaft shop and they are building me a new one but 3.5" this time. I'm still left with the trans, shocks, and floor pan to buy and install though

 

Are you going Pglide now?

 

damn man i hate to see this but you still have the most bad *** car i have ever read about!

 

No, I'm going to stick with the TH400. The suspension is working better than I thought.

Thank you! I'm just happy it's not worse.

 

I ended up having a 4" diameter drive shaft built for my Nova after adding the turbos. Years ago I grenaded my driveshaft on a chassis dyno and it did similar damage underneath the car and bellhousing. Get's your attention for sure.

On another note, after only driving a couple hundred street miles with the turbos I have already shelled the pinion gear in my 10-bolt differential. Working on a replacement now...

 

Yeah, that 10 bolt is not gonna be a happy camper with all that power. Are you going back with another or upgrading?

 

Found 2 Video's on Youtube from the other side of the track