Whats up ya'll? I have a quick question about some sticky tires, I have a totally stack rear end and drive shaft. Am I asking too much from my stock parts to run et streets? My car has 100K on the ticker, I will have a lt4 hotcam kit and ported heads, and other nick nack stuff done to the motor before I try them out. My Q is is that too much motor and not enoff rear end to run the et's? I would love to see some 1.8 60'ers, but I dont want to have to turn around and spend another 2 G's on a broken rear end??
Thanks,
Steve

 

Our 10- bolt rear's are not to forgiving when it comes to sticky tires..... an A4 w/o a high stall is more forgiving than an M6 . But with hard lanches/more power = broken rear , and that will eventaully lead to a 12-bolt rear

 

Wouldnt it have been great if GM wouldve just put 12bolts in these cars to start with, I cant imagine it wouldve cost them much more to do so.

Anyway, its all luck, one day you might go 30 passes hard launching on ETs and not break a thing, another day you might not launch it at all and bust it to shreds. Just to be safe though you might want to use drag radials such as nittos or goodriches to start with until the 12er comes.

 

I have 2 friends that consistanly cut 1.5xx 60' times on a bone stock 10 bolt rearend. Both cars are A4's. From what i've read on here, if you've got an A4, then you should be ok. With the M6's though, i've read where people have snapped their rearend in 14 second cars.

 

SWEET!!!!!!!! I look forward to it! Break it = fix it!!!

 

I broke my stock rearend....with only a 150 shot.... and some tires!

 

I have a 12 bolt sitting in my shop waiting for its day to come.

3200 stall 3:42 gears with a 175 shot with a set of Hoosiers in an A4 lets see how many passes I can make before it breaks??

A4's usually last a little longer than M6's on a "stock" 10 bolt

 

You'll be fine since you've got an auto. An auto preloads the rear end, while a manual more shocks it. I've got a ton of 1.7 60's on my old ET Streets on stock cam, hoping for 1.6's when I get some QTP's.

A friend of mine in his 98 T/A has pulled tons of low 1.5, and a few high 1.4 60's on his 10 bolt. It finally started going out for him. But his motor blew first.

 

I broke the stock rear on drag radials...

How good your luck is, well, its luck. Some guys get lots of passes, some don't. I used to break the rear annually but I run two classes at two tracks. I guess that would add up to fours years of points racing at one track in one class for most guys.