Digging for info - front drum explosion on 727s
My friends car mid 90’s. A ton of things wrong in this pict. It was a street car, but the engine was set back like 7“ so tin floor. No blanket, no shield, no clue. It was a RB with a 200kit that never got used. It was on its 2nd pass at the track when all hell broke loose. We were privy to the 2nd gear burnout, but when he left the line just past the 60 and BOOM!! We had to unroll the floor from around his leg. Piece of the drum wiped out the gauges. Dents in the roof and metal stuck in the door panels and ATF everywhere. My buddy walked with a limp for months. We had not a clue this could happen. Chuck Lofgren was racing that day and came by our pit and checked it out. It was the first time we’d met him and he educated us well on what happened. He also told us to check the rear gear and sure enough when we got it home the 8.75 had broken, so there was our chain of events.
My friends car mid 90’s. A ton of things wrong in this pict. It was a street car, but the engine was set back like 7“ so tin floor. No blanket, no shield, no clue. It was a RB with a 200kit that never got used. It was on its 2nd pass at the track when all hell broke loose. We were privy to the 2nd gear burnout, but when he left the line just past the 60 and BOOM!! We had to unroll the floor from around his leg. Piece of the drum wiped out the gauges. Dents in the roof and metal stuck in the door panels and ATF everywhere. My buddy walked with a limp for months. We had not a clue this could happen. Chuck Lofgren was racing that day and came by our pit and checked it out. It was the first time we’d met him and he educated us well on what happened. He also told us to check the rear gear and sure enough when we got it home the 8.75 had broken, so there was our chain of events.
