Turbos suck...
Turbos suck... Well I worked my *** off to get my car running in time for a show at va beach last week... used a lot of tie straps, didn't paint a lot of parts and pretty much ghetto-fied quite a few things that i have to re-do now that i have time.... i have time because both my wallet and my car are broke. 1st pass the car almost stalled out in the first 3 gears due to an overly safe tune i was running... waaay too much fuel.... second pass, the car didn't even break the staging beams.... two-step set at 4100rpm = bad.... and i did good
So did this break because it was weak or did the stock tq arm cause this?
So did this break because it was weak or did the stock tq arm cause this?
yea it looks worse in person 
BMR says that the trans mounted TA is good for 11.00 and higher passes, and I KNOW you have a 10 sec car, so my guess would be the trans mounted TA. Sucks to see that though, would have loved to see you carry the front tires 
BMR says that the trans mounted TA is good for 11.00 and higher passes, and I KNOW you have a 10 sec car, so my guess would be the trans mounted TA. Sucks to see that though, would have loved to see you carry the front tires Well while I agree that a trans mounted TA is not the best for a ful weight or almost full weight car I don't think that was totally the problem. I have a few friends pulling the tires etc and not having any issues on hard launches, but they are running aftermarket TA's. The stock TA could have flexed/bent so check it out and if that happened it is possible that the DS was put in a bind and broke it or helped break it also. Good luck! Sounds like the car is a beast.
Thanks guys.
Yea Inspector12 i hear ya, Hardtop00SS up there, was pulling his wheel up that same night with a stock tq arm/6-speed and heavy 17x9's in the front... i don't get it
Smokin... i had just put some prostars on with 11.50" ET streets on the night before.. plus they were treating the track due to some big guys running that night.
I am looking at buying a spohn TA second hand.. either way i am not putting the stocker back on.
So i am also wondering if i should send this DS in to Denny's to get checked over though it seems fine.
Yea Inspector12 i hear ya, Hardtop00SS up there, was pulling his wheel up that same night with a stock tq arm/6-speed and heavy 17x9's in the front... i don't get it
Smokin... i had just put some prostars on with 11.50" ET streets on the night before.. plus they were treating the track due to some big guys running that night.
I am looking at buying a spohn TA second hand.. either way i am not putting the stocker back on.
So i am also wondering if i should send this DS in to Denny's to get checked over though it seems fine.
I broke the tranny tailshaft on the dyno w/ stock tq arm, I`m glad mine did`nt brake at the dragstrip could be harmful to you. Since then I have run a Spohn tq arm with no problems. Aparently the tailshaft housing cant handdle higher amounts of torque.
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Yeah,
when I was just heads and cam I was doing a little comparison driving on the street with a buddy. Had the ET Streets on, and launched the car, herd this huge pop, and then a tapping on the floor board. I immedatly freaked, limped home, and was expecting the worst, took the torque arm off and it was broken in 4 places, all the bolt holes were ripped, and the front tounge peice was in the mount, not on the TA
stock TA's are not worth a damn
when I was just heads and cam I was doing a little comparison driving on the street with a buddy. Had the ET Streets on, and launched the car, herd this huge pop, and then a tapping on the floor board. I immedatly freaked, limped home, and was expecting the worst, took the torque arm off and it was broken in 4 places, all the bolt holes were ripped, and the front tounge peice was in the mount, not on the TA
stock TA's are not worth a damn
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My tq arm is fine.... which makes me think it wasn't the problem.... but i know it wasn't helping anything.
MM... yea it's ashame nobody close to me had one just laying around that i could have used.... I'm an idiot...
1a-play.... no times of yet.. just got the car running.. and i am using edit but i didn't have much time before the track to get things right so i had my meth on full blast, really cool IAT's and a ton of fuel via the pe table... so the tune was waaay fat. my afr was pegged on the rich side even in the burnout box where the car was running rough. Again, i shouldn't have rushed things.. i am lucky i didn't toast the engine as well.
MM... yea it's ashame nobody close to me had one just laying around that i could have used.... I'm an idiot...
1a-play.... no times of yet.. just got the car running.. and i am using edit but i didn't have much time before the track to get things right so i had my meth on full blast, really cool IAT's and a ton of fuel via the pe table... so the tune was waaay fat. my afr was pegged on the rich side even in the burnout box where the car was running rough. Again, i shouldn't have rushed things.. i am lucky i didn't toast the engine as well.
