Boom! Blew up the rearend and driveshaft today!

[missouri_guy197]

Gateway was going pretty good today until this happened:

Looks like the center pin is completely gone, ring gear has some broken teeth, C-clip is bent, diff case is shattered, driveshaft front u-joint is destroyed, rear cover is shredded, and the tranny might have grenaded a gear...

 

[bigcat]

that sucks. i hope you at least had fun doing it!!

 

[Henceforward]

 

[blackfang]

I saw the carnage on the other site. Time for a 31 spline.

 

[1999SVTVert]

When did it let go? Launch, shift, etc?

 

[Dr. Wu 2000]

Ouch, sorry to see that. Time to rebuild with the good stuff.

 

[missouri_guy197]

When did it let go? Launch, shift, etc?

It let go on a 5500rpm clutch drop launch...

More pictures here:

http://forums.stangnet.com/showthread.php?p=6011159#post6011159

 

[posm6s]

Damn!

 

[cold96snake]

Wow!!

So what was your 60' ft time?

 

[missouri_guy197]

I'm not real sure, but I think I looked down at the end of the track and it was like a 2.39 or something like that because it broke before the 60' mark...

 

[cold96snake]

x2 suckage then.

 

[Dan_Soprano]

Guess the track prep was good huh?

 

[missouri_guy197]

Guess the track prep was good huh?

Very, probably the best I've seen Gateway International prep their track for a test and tune...I walked the starting line before starting time and there was a lot of VHT down...