Some of you have already heard that my car broke in the 2nd round at the NMCA event this last weekend. I was up against Steve Quinn, for the second time this year already, and during my launch the car lifted and the BANG no more momentum. I knew it was either the trans or rear end. It wasn't the driveshaft as I'm intimately familiar with the sound of a failure both up front and out back!!

Not only did I break the trans, but today we figured out the chain of events that caused it. So, my brother noticed today that there was a chunk of the cover missing off the 12 bolt. It definitely looked like something blew up. My dad ended up taking the cover off (I'm out of town for work, like usual) and found all of the spider gears shattered, the clutch springs were laying in the bottom of the pumpkin and the ring gear is jammed up in the pinion gear with some junk. The car rolls freely because there is no longer anything to bind it up.

Now that the ring and pinion are locked up we believe the torque was transmitted back up the driveshaft and it either broke the output shaft in the process and I'm almost certain it wiped out first gear, the synchros and probably 10 other things in the process.

Hopefully I'll have it back together in two weeks in time to be ready for the CZ28 Nationals up here. Steve, how did you end up in the final round anyway? I didn't hear what happened against Todd.

Here are the pictures: http://www.derty.org/images/mishaps/12bolt/12bolt.jsp

 

... Aut-O-Matic!

You'll dump (or have) a TON of money into an M6/drivetrain trying to keep it on track! JUST my .02 as worthless as it is!

HInk

 

Its about $2350 for the complete THD 400 conversion. You can pay it now or you can pay it later.

 

derty,

did you call the number i gave you?

g'luck on whatever you do

 

Taner, not yet. I still want to diagnose everything first. I'll let you know what's up later this week.