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Old 04-26-2016, 02:48 PM
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47,000mi Later...

Transmission started making a noise only when under power. It got pretty bad so I parked it until I could work on it. When I did get it out I found the ring gear and final drive gear set were missing a few teeth. Also found most of my bearings were pretty worn. This car did dyno at 300whp so a premature failure isn't surprising. But this still seemed a little soon. I did some research and found people who broke gears while drag racing were running syncromesh like me. The solution for them was to run a much thicker oil. I'm not sure I want to say what right now. All in all it held up well for all the abuse the poor thing took. She's rebuilt and back in the car with thicker oil. Also shout out to LSD motorsports clutch for being almost dead but never slipping, and OBX LSD for still being in good shape.

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