More SHO Carnage

[SHO Boom]

Fred showed us a blowed up engine, here is my blowed up transaxle.

Any guesses as to why this would happen?

<small>[ October 10, 2002, 05:39 PM: Message edited by: SHO Boom ]</small>

 

[Slo-Sho]

Cause you were granny shifting, not double clutching like you were supposed too!! thumbs_u

 

[SolidState]

what? those holes aren't standard issue?!?

 

[nc89sho]

stock diff. = Shoboom

YAY, i got to say it.

 

[Yamaha V6]

Ask any racer - any REAL racer - it don't matter whether you shift it hard or shift it soft, if you ain't got Quaife, you're gonna have a "ventilated transaxle case" someday.

 

[drivinhard]

It's a good modification, helps drain/change the tranny fluid easier.

 

[tomw]

Fred- you should buy the tranny to go with your light weight block!

Tom W

 

[SHO_Driver]

Yikes!! Looks like you were trying to add sixth gear into the tranny.

 

[smacd]

Hey, that looks familiar!!!

 

[91 SHOplus]

You mean those AREN'T for weight reduction???

 

[blackhawk60]

Excuse my ignorance, what is double clutching?

<small>[ October 11, 2002, 01:09 PM: Message edited by: blackhawk60 ]</small>

 

[Xs SHO 1]

blackhawk60:
Excuse my ignorance, what is double clutching?

blackhawk60, check your private message...

 

[pete c]

Back in the day before syncros, downshifting a manual tranny smoothly was an artform. One had to get everything spinning at close to the same speed before meshing the gears. This was done by engaging (or is it disengaging?) how bout pushing the clutch, dropping to neutral, releasing the clutch, blipping the throttle to get things in the tranny spinning faster, pushing the clutch in again and shifting to the next lower gear. Doing this now is unnecessary, but there is one case where I find that the syncros need a little help. After coasting down a long hill in neutral, everything in the tranny other than the output shaft is spinning pretty slow. Attempting to engage 5th gear at 70 mph after coasting is apparently a little too much to ask of my decade old, 94K mile syncros,so the tranny lets me know with a bit of gear gnashing. I now throttle the engine up to about 2500, depress the clutch and it slides right in smoov as butta.

 

[Kevin Ryan]

Same thing happened to me. The diff cross shaft bolt usually snaps into 2 or 3 pieces then gets fired right through the side of the case. I was lucky to find the piece that went throught the side of the case. It was fired out with such velocity that when it hit the curb it took out approx a 4" chunk. I'm not sure how it missed the wheel, tire, suspension, etc that are all in the way!?! Just lucky, I GUESS?!?

<small>[ October 12, 2002, 01:30 PM: Message edited by: Kevin Ryan ]</small>

 

[SHO Boom]

The funny thing about my tranny explosion was that it happened during normal freeway driving.

 

[MaxOwnJoo]

holy cow batman! eek!

that really sucks..(ford) shoot

 

[pete c]

How much for one of those quaifes? One of these days I will need to do a clutch job and, if it is not too expensive I will throw in a quaife.

 

[RogueSHO]

niiiiice!! thumbs_u

you know, pictures like this scare me... i mean, i'm not exactly nice to my car. i shift hard, i chirp 2nd... i've even bottomed out the rear end shifting into 2nd due to my weak suspension. i've pulled hole shots that were at least 40 yards (including some of 2nd...) leaving a cloud of smoke similar to that of an airplane landing. i haven't had a transmission problem yet... ,guess i'm lucky, but i've been taking it a bit easier now that i've got new tires... finally. i just wish i had taken some pictures...

 

[shojuan]

Pete C,

Quaife is $1300 and install kit is $150. Expensive, but it seems everyone who has one says it is worth every penny. And more. Also I've heard that there can be quite a wait from order to receipt so planning and patience is in order.

Rick

 

[pete c]

Any chance of coming across a used quaife? I'm guessing they are rare. And would probably still comand a decent price. If any of you guys out there have a dead sho w/quaife gimme a holler.