Price you pay to play - 727

First off yes you can ban a car from competition if it has the proper safety equipment. My dad did it plenty of times and I have done it also. Racing in competition is not a constitutional right and if any official thinks a car is unsafe it can be banned by the tech director, division director or track owner/promoter unless the car owner or driver can prove it is safe for competition. It is a guilting until proven innocent policy, it has to be there all kinds of people building weird stuff to run. In the case of the cuda I would make them teardown the trans to see if it indead did have the aluminum drum before it would be allowed to run.

Your right the stock glide isn't as strong as the stock 727 but I'm talking about setting up a trans with aftermarket race parts. Granted the aluminum drum will most likely keep the trans from exploding but it won't keep the sprag from failing and you won't know if the sprag failed so you would be running the car with a failed sprag. You would have to take apart the trans to see if it failed.

There is a reason they no longer use clutchflites, the cuda says it all. I'm sorry it bugs you so much but the glide is the one to use, thats why they are used so much in supercomp and comp.

Why would you get pissed off? The aftermarket companies have made a bullet proof trans out of the glide it's not worth getting worked up over. It's no different than all of the companies using Mopar's hemi design that everyone uses in the fuel classes.

It's great that you are so passionate about using only Mopar parts in your cars, I'm the same way but I won't compromise safety for the sake of being brand loyal. And I wouldn't let someone else do it either if I teching their car.

Chuck