CARNAGE!

[nastynova]

Well we took the Nova out last night to make some more passes on it since we've made the updates to the rear suspension, car ran excellent on the motor and we had a best 60' of 1.35 which surpassed our previous of 1.38, on our last pass we put the bottle in and pulled the timing and put in the 300 pills in the plate. Went through the whole routine in the box, staged, let the button go and Boom, bang, pow du dum du dum, clunk clunk clunk......wtf! Not sure where the failure took place, but we destroyed the driveshaft, slip yoke and the front u-joint which was all 1350 stuff, ripped the tail housing off the transmission TH400. Here's a pic of some of the stuff we picked up last night off the track that was cool enough to pickup, we didn't feel it necessary to show the 100's of needle bearings. LOL! Anyways, we were fortunate enough to be pitted next to Jamie Stanton from the NMCA which I might add is one of the friendliest and outgoing guys out there, my stomach and face still hurts from all the laughing we did with those guys last night, he was there doing some testing last night and he came over after the mishap an looked at our pile of parts and said it looked like the front u-joint no being a solid joint was the culprit, which when we had the drive shaft built we specified that it be able to handle in excess of 1000HP. He's done 5 or 6 shafts for us over the years and never one problem. We had a made a pass prior to that with the same tune and no problems. The only thing different was we put in the new ladder bars, but we set the pinion angle back to where it was before with 1 degree negative.

[John_Heard]

Ouch...

[wikd69]

Well we took the Nova out last night to make some more passes on it since we've made the updates to the rear suspension, car ran excellent on the motor and we had a best 60' of 1.35 which surpassed our previous of 1.38, on our last pass we put the bottle in and pulled the timing and put in the 300 pills in the plate. Went through the whole routine in the box, staged, let the button go and Boom, bang, pow du dum du dum, clunk clunk clunk......wtf! Not sure where the failure took place, but we destroyed the driveshaft, slip yoke and the front u-joint which was all 1350 stuff, ripped the tail housing off the transmission TH400. Here's a pic of some of the stuff we picked up last night off the track that was cool enough to pickup, we didn't feel it necessary to show the 100's of needle bearings. LOL! Anyways, we were fortunate enough to be pitted next to Jamie Stanton from the NMCA which I might add is one of the friendliest and outgoing guys out there, my stomach and face still hurts from all the laughing we did with those guys last night, he was there doing some testing last night and he came over after the mishap an looked at our pile of parts and said it looked like the front u-joint no being a solid joint was the culprit, which when we had the drive shaft built we specified that it be able to handle in excess of 1000HP. He's done 5 or 6 shafts for us over the years and never one problem. We had a made a pass prior to that with the same tune and no problems. The only thing different was we put in the new ladder bars, but we set the pinion angle back to where it was before with 1 degree negative.

Sorry to see you having probs - did this hurt the trans-case or just destroy the tailshaft housing ?

[chpcamaro]

ouch hopefully it will be easy and cheap to fix so you can get back to the track soon

[supernova]

1350 solid u-joint is the only way to go if your on a t-brake! I did the same thing with a 4 speed yrs ago. It broke in third gear at about a 100 mph and scared the crap out of me.

[79 Camaro]

1350 solid u-joint is the only way to go if your on a t-brake! I did the same thing with a 4 speed yrs ago. It broke in third gear at about a 100 mph and scared the crap out of me.

WOW I bet that was scary as hell



S

Well we took the Nova out last night to make some more passes on it since we've made the updates to the rear suspension, car ran excellent on the motor and we had a best 60' of 1.35 which surpassed our previous of 1.38, on our last pass we put the bottle in and pulled the timing and put in the 300 pills in the plate. Went through the whole routine in the box, staged, let the button go and Boom, bang, pow du dum du dum, clunk clunk clunk......wtf! Not sure where the failure took place, but we destroyed the driveshaft, slip yoke and the front u-joint which was all 1350 stuff, ripped the tail housing off the transmission TH400. Here's a pic of some of the stuff we picked up last night off the track that was cool enough to pickup, we didn't feel it necessary to show the 100's of needle bearings. LOL! Anyways, we were fortunate enough to be pitted next to Jamie Stanton from the NMCA which I might add is one of the friendliest and outgoing guys out there, my stomach and face still hurts from all the laughing we did with those guys last night, he was there doing some testing last night and he came over after the mishap an looked at our pile of parts and said it looked like the front u-joint no being a solid joint was the culprit, which when we had the drive shaft built we specified that it be able to handle in excess of 1000HP. He's done 5 or 6 shafts for us over the years and never one problem. We had a made a pass prior to that with the same tune and no problems. The only thing different was we put in the new ladder bars, but we set the pinion angle back to where it was before with 1 degree negative.

Sorry to hear about the carnage. Hopefully it didnt mess up the car any on the underside?

[DL]

been there!!! i was about 20 ft out drive shaft,thirdmember,exaust,took out some internal parts in the trans also,sounds like a bomb goes off under ur car

[supernova]

been there!!! i was about 20 ft out drive shaft,thirdmember,exaust,took out some internal parts in the trans also,sounds like a bomb goes off under ur car

Yep it does sound like a bomb going off. I bet my car jumped 2 ft off the ground when it happened. It beat the hell out of the under side of the car too.

[gmracing355]

I did the same in my old malibu wagon.Removed everything from the back of the engine to rear,lol.Boy was it loud.
Greg

[hugger73hatch]

My driveshaft exploded on the street a couple of years ago...not fun and lots of damage....driveshaft, u joints, driveshaft loop, ring and pinion, posi, mufflers and pipes...it sucks for sure.

[camaroman9]

been there!!! i was about 20 ft out drive shaft,thirdmember,exaust,took out some internal parts in the trans also,sounds like a bomb goes off under ur car

yeah, and because you broke, it started raining before i made it to the waterbox...