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Old Sep 26, 2011 | 11:16 AM
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Broke my Intense 300M input shaft this weekend. Broke on the 1 to 2 shift. Only my second time to the track this year. Hoping that maybe I can fix it before the season ends and get my 10 second pass in. Might not be able to use their input shaft. Not sure if they will even cover it breaking. More than likely not. Looking at possibly GM Racing input shaft that will hold up to 1200 hp!

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Old Sep 26, 2011 | 11:27 AM
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boom that stinks how much is the 300m rated for?
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Old Sep 26, 2011 | 02:14 PM
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Update:

Spoke with John at Intense Racing today. Right away he offered to split the difference with me on the cost of a replacement input shaft. Unfortunately the GM shafts are no longer available. I guess partially due to the government buying up the particular metal they are made of as of late.

Taking into consideration that I bought this shaft back in 2009 and have had a few seasons of racing on it, I couldn't be happier! He said he was just happy to hear that someone broke it for a good reason, power! Said the few they have had break were due to bad balancers or impbalanced torque converter causing vibration that broke the shaft. Mine is strictly power of course!
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Old Sep 26, 2011 | 05:57 PM
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Well crap that sucks. I hope thats all that broke.
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Old Sep 26, 2011 | 06:11 PM
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What is your best pass to date? I heard your were having trouble with trans slippage so you had Kevin re-do Daves work with some special upgrades and tricks.

That turbo sure sounds nice. Hopefully you didn't drive your car to the track and get stuck lol.
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Old Sep 26, 2011 | 07:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Sittingmongoose
boom that stinks how much is the 300m rated for?
Around 500....
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Old Sep 26, 2011 | 07:30 PM
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What is your best pass to date? I heard your were having trouble with trans slippage so you had Kevin re-do Daves work with some special upgrades and tricks.

That turbo sure sounds nice. Hopefully you didn't drive your car to the track and get stuck lol.
11.01 from last year has been the best. I was planning to shoot for the 10 sec pass on Sunday with the new parts on the car, but the input shaft stopped that. Kevin @ Cartuning built the recent version of the trans with the special 3rd gear piston that he designed that will hold power/clutches well into/past the 600 whp range.

Yes, this car is driven back and forth to the track. It's truly a street car and full weight, no shortcuts! Flatbed tow back home wasn't too cheap for the 75 mile trip!
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Old Sep 26, 2011 | 08:39 PM
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Very impressive car man. What I don't understand is how there was no cussing in that video!
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Old Sep 27, 2011 | 06:39 AM
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Where do you live supercatxr? On my cell I can't see sigs, was thinking of getting my trans upgrade from Kevin rather than going to Dave.
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Old Sep 27, 2011 | 09:21 AM
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Michigan. Kevin is in Toronto area.
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Old Sep 28, 2011 | 07:53 PM
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Oh ok. Thought you were in the Toronto area, I work about 10 mins from cartuning.
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