[7tstang70]

On the fourth, i raced my buddy in his 79 camaro. we never raced and decided to run'em for no reason. We line up and do some nice burnouts. I foot brake my launch and took him off the line. by the end of the fourth pole, i was at least 6 cars ahead! I keep going to the next stop sign to turn around, when i suddenly hear a lould thud. My trans blew up on me and i was doing 100 plus! i guess i hit a small bump durring the race and one of the trans cooler lines got cut by my flex fan and it dried my trans. the front u joint blew up and my drive shaft took out my shifter and banged up my exhaust. some how the car didnt burst into flames and i was able to control it. All i got to say is that i got lucky on that one. the trans was busted in four pieces and the bellhousing destroyed. I won the race, but i ended up losing anyways.

[stlwagon]

All things considered, it could have gone a lot worse.

[Cobrajet67]

Story sounds pretty far-fetched. How does a flex fan cut a metal trans cooler line from a small bump or big bump for that matter and how does it "dry" and blow a trans out in the same pass? NOT very believable 7tstang70.

[7tstang70]

ya i thought somone would say that, my hoses have a section of rubber hose that connect the radiator to the hard lines, and i didnt have a fan shrould, i'm not sure if that by its self caused it to fail but that that line had a good sized slash on it. i have a pic of the trans. ill try to put it up, what else do u guys think could of caused it?

[7tstang70]

here the pics


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http://img2.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/d5cbdbfeea.jpg

[Cobrajet67]

Hmm. That trans is definitely broken. Pretty good too. Your story sounded fake but looking at the second pic(first one didn't work) I now believe it. If it happened at high speed/rpms then it could be a few things that might've caused this catastrophic damage-it's a matter of what broke first. I'd hate to see what it did to the bottom of your car. Ouch.

[7tstang70]

ya my trans tunnel got banged pretty bad. the good thing was the driveshaft didnt go through it. Do you think a new harmonic balancer i put in ithad anything to do with it?

[05Musclestang]

Congrats on the kill with the camaro but with the aftermath of that, that sucks man! The bright side though, atleast now you got a excuse to get a new alum. driveshaft, driveshaft loop, and a new trans with a transbrake

[7tstang70]

ha! thats exactly what i want to put in it next....guess us mustang guys think alike huh?

[Cobrajet67]

TCI makes a few VERY good c4s for your car-They have the sizzler-only rated to 300hp, and the streetfighter and super streetfighter-450hp and 600hp. I have their AOD streetfighter in my GT and it's awesome. Hard quick shifts and bulletproof too.

[7tstang70]

ya i've been looking at those and some from Performance automatic...they have a lifetime warrenty