Yes Mike, I emailed several posters off line, and asked for details, and
never got an answer. Sticky race/drag tires, 5000 rpm launches,
repeated and heavy speed shifts at high rpm, can take its toll.
But trackson is a problem with a Tiger, and a relative small percent
have over 300 rear wheel hp or torque over 350.
Besides constant speed shifting may give you a Boy Racer thrill, but it
certainly won't win races, and is unnecessarily hard on the car.
Larry
mjsutter@cox.net wrote:
>Being a digest subscriber, all you real timers are going to have to be
>subjected to my out-of-phase reply on this subject of scatter shields, but too
>bad.
>
>It seems as though everyone has heard of some catastrophic occurrence relating
>to the clutch system in one car or another. I would think that these
>occurrences are extremely rare at best, and only get logged to memory because
>of their Hindenburg-like results. My opinion, (which really isn't worth crap)
>is that these few events happen in very severe duty cases, not your average
>weekend driver situations. Serious road racing and/or drag racing warrants the
>use of one of these monstrosities, but for the average, under-300 HP driver
>its unnecessary weight. Why beat the hell out of your trans tunnel in
>preparation for an event that is more than likely never going to happen. If
>we're all going to get paranoid about our safety while driving one of these
>little bastards, lets worry about being rear ended in a 1a or a 2. Holy cow, I
>can almost feel the gasoline running down my back as I write this.
>
>All this "safety talk" is making me very nervous.
>
>MS
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