Can you read? It broke in a 12 second street car. Not some race car. If you think 12 seconds is a race car (and don’t try and tell me about some 273 2 barrel in Stock Eliminator being a race car because that don’t wash) then that explains a lot.
Second, you are so triggered by anyone you think views everything through a “racing” perspective that’s it just stupid.
Just because you can’t drive something on the street or you can’t run higher than orthodox compression ratios on pump gas doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be done.
The benefits are incredible but you are too old and too pig headed to realize that you didn’t keep up with how things can be done. And your goal is to drag people down into your antiquated thinking.
Let’s see…things like you can run more compression with aluminum (or as you call them as you wrongly “alloy” but I suppose you think it makes you sound cool or something but in reality there are many alloys that are not aluminum and most metals are an alloy) heads but the fact is you are dead wrong. I’ve explained it and you’ve never posted an SAE paper or any peer reviewed article that proves it. You are wrong about that too, unless you think the junk test that frybooger and dullchek did on engine masters was legit. It wasn’t. It was set up to make the iron heads look bad. You should know better.
To that end, one reason you can’t do compression like I can is you refuse to accept that cold engines make more power. By a long way.
Of course, you will refer to engineering text books and SAE papers saying hot engines make more power but the reality is they don’t. I can prove it on the dyno. Oh wait, that’s race car stuff but the OEM’s dyno test everything. They must be stupid to waste all that time and money on street car stuff. That’s why coolant AND oil temps are critical to accurate test numbers. A few degrees one way or the other changes power output. But it reduces emissions. I try and increase carbon footprint. It’s more environmentally friendly.
Then you will say but what about asscar. The asscar guys are dealing with weight and aerodynamics. To get a cooling system capable of handling 160 degree temperatures for a race of that duration would require a massive (aerodynamically a disaster) radiator that would weigh so much and would throw off the balance of the car so bad that if the temperature was held at 160 it would be a slug. Not because it made less power but the 30-40 hp you gain was ate up by the huge weight increase and the aerodynamic hit that would be equal to hanging a giant sail on it. Plus the weight balance would be so bad it wouldn’t go around a corner on rails.
So why the giant red X. Because I don’t have a smaller one and because you deserved it.
The claim that the tapered pinion is stronger is just wrong. There are very few times where a taper is stronger. This is not the case.
So who cares if is a 22 second street car or a 10 second daily driver? If the option is a straight or tapered pinion you take the straight pinion every time? Why risk it?
Along those same lines, it is absolutely idiotic if you don’t have a rear axle and you chose to build the 8.75 rather than a Dana. That’s dumb.
The small weight gain is nothing compared to the cost and in the end the strength of not only the gear set but the housing itself. I’d suggest a 9 inch but they cost far too much for zero benefit.
I know you think that nothing from racing translates to street or street/strip stuff but it does. If you ever learn that you’ll be miles ahead.
Why you would claim I gave you a red X because you are a “Christian” defies common sense and logic.
I don’t care if you are a Christian, Jew, Orthodox, unorthodox, Muslim, Hindu, atheist or even a cross dresser. It has nothing to do with my response to you.
That’s just ignorant on your part. I don’t care what you are, you were wrong and for that you got the red X.
A grown man would never post what you did over a colored letter. Just damn silly.
Edit: I can and did red X your opinion. You can have your own opinions but you are still wrong. I’m not sure where the FABO rule is that you can’t red X an opinion. I’m sure if I was breaking a rule
@toolmanmike would be on me like stink on poo. This is supposed to be grown men here, acting like grown men.
You see, the red X makes it so I can disagree with your backwards opinions and not have to respond like this. I disagreed with your wrong opinion. Why explain that? Seems self explanatory to me.