omfg its a small world here on this forum if it is... everyone is like crossbreeding!

 

i sold him my old mr2 a year or so ago. thats what he said the plan for the car was. hope it is. ide like to see somthing cool come from that car.

 

Yep yep yep....


Well check this...

I had an Blitz bc, which I bought froma friend in colorado, sold it to James another 2 owner, which intruned sold it to Mark, which then sold it to his father....

My stern wheels bought from the JDM land, sold them to Chris which is another 2 owner, then sold his whole car to Mark.

And I may have a surprise for all you folks when this car comes out.

 

cant wait to see my old mr2 kickin some ass

 

"If they can figure out which hole to put it in!"

seriously though, it can happen... no clutch dropping or power shifting, it could survive... you dont have to beat it like its a honda. Fast cars dont need to be drivin fast, which explains why most honda owners are seen weaving in and out of traffic like they are F1 drivers and gorilla-shifting so hard that the damn lever is about to break off. I never drive my supra that hard.. i KNOW its got power, i dont need to try to show off or beat the car for all its worth.

If you have 500 HP in an AW11, neither will you.

 

if your trying not to run a 13@150 MPH you will launch your car hard.. I dont think Joey and al powers are making these cars to "drive around in traffic leisurely". They are made to put up solid numbers at the track which requires getting power down to the ground for the best 60' possible.. The byproduct of this on a front drive tranny that is squatted and sagged during a launch with all the weight on it and LSD and drag radials and massive power = broken drive train parts..

 

uhm... no. youre wrong...

How do you think one puts almost 900 HP thru a STOCK Tranny case w/ STOCK tranny internals and STOCK drive axles and STOCK transfer case and run 9.30's???

You dont beat the fuck out of it, thats how. Trust me, you can do it w/o breakin shit.

If you disagree w/ me, youre still wrong.

 

regardless if you arent requiring SOMETHING of the transmission you will not run the fastest time possible.. sure you might run a 9.30 with a street start, but its not your fastest possible then, a street start vs a good hook you should be runnin like 8.5 or 8.7 instead of a 9.3 60' times are extremely important, and when you move X mass over Y distance in T time, there is always E ammount of energy that has to be harnessed causing S total stress on components..

Now S total stress can be divided up because something has to give in order to get the car moving, especially moving quickly.. The engine could give causing a stall, the clutch could give and the car goes nowhere smoking the clutch, the transmission or driveshaft could take a shit and game over, the diff could blow out game over, or the tires could smoke and not hook and you run a slow time.......... Its about splitting this up with the proper ammount of clutch slip, rpm's, throttle, and wheelspin (or lack of) to create a situation where S stress gets divided up most efficiently.......

Something has to give and a FWD style stock MR2 tranny was never designed to move 2400 pounds 60' with 500RWHP with a 60' time of like 1.3-1.5 more than a few times, eventually it WILL DIE... AL has shown us that already 6 axles and 2 trannies...

SO you say that AL's new lighter weight will make his trannies more reliable... I say NO.. The reason is the quest for lower times... Even though the pounds are less, he will compensate for it by going for quicker 60' times and load the tranny with the same ammount of stress if not more.. the 60' time will be a LOT faster cause of lost weight, but the driveline parts will be just as stressed since hes -'s weight and +'s speed..

Either way ya look at it, if you wanna run your best times and play with the "big boys" your gonna break shit eventually.. Gotta pay to play

 

it depends on what kinda person you are. Shep admits to babying his car out of the hole and 'granny shifting' his car down the track... i Know he could run 8's if he wanted to but there are several reasons he wont.

the point is, do you sacrifice your 60' times to keep your car intact or go for the quick times and risk breakin shit?? I myself would rather sacrifice my times and make it up in the top end to keep the car together... i mean if i had a car that had inherent weaknesses, i wouldnt ignore it and drive the car hard.. If i wanted something to drive hard and not worry about breakin shit, i woulda gotten a different car. but itll be alright.