More pics from the 2010 Bash

Rick's bad mishap

Ouch Rick that looks like time for a Chrome Moly drive shaft.... aluminum is for intakes and heads....


Randy

Rick has officially re-named Aluminum driveshafts........

Red when I built my car I ask Strange about an Aluminum shaft and they suggested chromoly.. I see why now...



Randy

Great pic's Red, Thank God for DS loops,or I would have that carnage up my A.. right now.

Hey Rick make sure you check your tranny real good after that deal.... When the pinion punches out like that it can crack the tail housing and or do internal damage to the trans. Those stock pinion supports will fail like that when you load them up hard. Did my first one like that about thirty years ago now. It dont matter if the driveshaft is steel or unobtianium its going to fold in half when that pinion comes out like that.

dkp

Man, that Maverick is one baaad mamajama! What are the specs, anyone know?

the Coug wrote:Ouch Rick that looks like time for a Chrome Moly drive shaft.... aluminum is for intakes and heads....


Randy

Outdated information, Randy. We ran an aluminum driveshaft in our Pro 5.0 car,2550#, 5 speed Liberty, 815" hemi, 1800 horsepower,34.5X17" Goodyears, no breakage. Don't blame the driveshaft for a rear end failure, that's what started this chain of events. Place the blame where it belongs............

The pinion support failed, and yes check the tranny real good.

might be Nev but I always use an aftermarket pinion support too...


Randy

bosshoss wrote:Hey Rick make sure you check your tranny real good after that deal.... When the pinion punches out like that it can crack the tail housing and or do internal damage to the trans. Those stock pinion supports will fail like that when you load them up hard. Did my first one like that about thirty years ago now. It dont matter if the driveshaft is steel or unobtianium its going to fold in half when that pinion comes out like that.

dkp

I agree 100%, It will be strong when it comes back out

What was the fastest door car (on real big tires!)?

ah that would be that Blue mustang with the little block

Looks bad ass. It looks like a lot of bad ass Fords. What was the Mustangs time?

valleydawg wrote:Looks bad ass. It looks like a lot of bad ass Fords. What was the Mustangs time?

Tim Murphy won the Quickest Door car award with a 5.32 through the 1/8... and it's a stick car

D. Sea wrote:

valleydawg wrote:Looks bad ass. It looks like a lot of bad ass Fords. What was the Mustangs time?

Tim Murphy won the Quickest Door car award with a 5.32 through the 1/8... and it's a stick car

LENCO dat is !! One Bas Azz Car.......

Hey Rick, sorry about all the carnage, but the good news is the U-joint looks to be fine.

the Coug wrote:might be Nev but I always use an aftermarket pinion support too...


Randy

No argument on the aftermarket pinion support Randy, Mark Williams 3.81 bore thru bolt case, 40 spline spool combo for me. Weakest link always goes first, like that's a revelation...............

Pulled the carnage out of the housing today. Lookes like the previous owner wasn't real truthful about the parts. Stock N case (not strange) . It did have Moser axles and a strange spool w/richmond 4.56 gears. When the pinion support let go it destroyed the N case also. The Tranny looks to be fine from what I can see,thanks to all the extra loops. It just took out the weakest link,if there's more i'm sure this power plant will find them.

Nevs wrote:Mark Williams 3.81 bore thru bolt case, 40 spline spool combo for me.

Are you guys running a 9" or 9 1/2" gear in that big bore case?

DILLIGASDAVE wrote:

Nevs wrote:Mark Williams 3.81 bore thru bolt case, 40 spline spool combo for me.

Are you guys running a 9" or 9 1/2" gear in that big bore case?

9".