Have you ever broken anything during a launch?

[GTOJOE]

I think that's the only 300M I have ever heard of breaking.....

[stealthee]

Matt broke 300M rear axles. I think I have heard of a few other 300M OS's snapping, but I think I remember one such instance being blamed on a flaw in the casting.

[MR2]

not broken anything

spend to much money getting stuff beffed up for that to happen (shorly)

[IPD]

note that chris never said he broke an ATX during launch. that only happened when he shifted it into o/d.

[IPD]

Matt broke 300M rear axles. I think I have heard of a few other 300M OS's snapping, but I think I remember one such instance being blamed on a flaw in the casting.

i think it was established that those were NOT 300m axles. ray himself said they were not TRUE 300m axles. i'll let someone correct me if i'm wrong though.

[drew0u812]

In the 14 years of owning my stealth, the launches are countless and nothing broke. I have glazed the stock clutch several times, but nothing broke.
In the last year of my car's life I would pretty much do an all out 0-60 (4.01 sec) run at least once a week coming home from work and nothing broke.

[TAZmaniac]

Well ....
Not going to comment on the discussion about what is possible or not. My experience is that shit happens when you get enough torque and power ....

Personally I have broken this :



Completely grenaded ....

I have broken this :


I`ve broken this :


And the second one that went ..... :


I`ve broken this :


I`ve also ripped apart one of these (not that I`m the only one to have managed that ... ) :


Everything I have done is also on STREET tires .... not even street slicks. Kind of tells me that I must have done SOMETHING right in getting the power to the ground right ???

Besides the things mentioned above I`ve also thrashed a Supercar dog-shift trans complete with Supercars center diff ... and completely cleaned out a second "reinforced design" RPS CC-clutch but those were just "following damage" from other causes ......

I`ve also "worn out" my RPS CC-pressure plate to tha degree that it started cracking by the mounting points for the springs .... (even though the rest was fine right Michael ? ) ...

So yes... things break .... It`s just very hard to set a certain amount of HP to decide what goes when .... It all depends on the use and the milage you put on it ....

(and a little OT .... yes I know Michael ... I`ve been a little busy for a while. Summer holiday time over here has just ended, rebuilding my kitchen and hallway, partly rebuilding the kitchen at my cabin etc etc .... I know I`m not the most reliable poster but I`m an expert in suddenly resurfacing once in a while )

TAZ

[MR2]

Yep, the plates seem fine Taz have not actually used them yet though glad to see your still around

of note on the plates, you've got some serious wear on the splines!

you ARE going to tell us how the new clutch is going right? and compare it to the old one?

[TAZmaniac]

Wear on the splines ... Hmmm wonder how THAT could have happened ??

(I did tell you that there were some wear though .... but it never was any issue as long as I had them in. Didn`t see any wear on the axel so I figure I would have used them again. As this is your "spare" let`s just hope you`ll never have to use them ...)

And yeah I`ll put up a post comparing them in a short time. I have now done a LOT of daily use, a couple of drag launches and a day of circuit racing this weekend so I feel I have a pretty good opinion on it now ...

TAZ

[MR2]

Wear on the splines ... Hmmm wonder how THAT could have happened ??

(I did tell you that there were some wear though .... but it never was any issue as long as I had them in. Didn`t see any wear on the axel so I figure I would have used them again. As this is your "spare" let`s just hope you`ll never have to use them ...)

And yeah I`ll put up a post comparing them in a short time. I have now done a LOT of daily use, a couple of drag launches and a day of circuit racing this weekend so I feel I have a pretty good opinion on it now ...

TAZ

No need to stress on the splines, still got plenty of KM left in them just that they are worn down a bit (will take some photo's)