[Shotimes] Convention and I-90

[Ron Porter]

No offense personally, guys, but I'm getting offended (seriously).

Let's kill the "MYTH" right now that drag racing kills 5-speed SHO trannies.
Let's also kill the "MYTH" that a smoky burnout will kill one, also.

Sorry, ain't true. If that was the case, I would have been through 10-15-20
transmissions in the 10 years and 182K miles I had my '89. The diff pins
didn't blow until about 195K with the next owner. After 195K, I feel that it
has proven itself as a very durable tranny.

The SHO 5-speed and diff are very durable with respect to a performance car.
Sure there are some flawed ones (like my first one in the '95 that again
blew after a rebuild), but my "new" (used '91) 5-speed has been through a
LOT of dragstrip runs and street smokies and is still fine.

I know you older guys know this, but the newer SHO members need to
understand the reality of the situation.

I'm sorry, but I believe that a SHO that blows a tranny after 150K miles
does not have a "problem", nor is there a "manufacturing/engineering
defect".

For those of you old enough to remember, blowing up a 4-speed musclecar
trans was par for the course for street/strip cars.

Ron Porter 

-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of George Fourchy
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 3:51 PM
To: shotimes@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Convention and I-90


On Tue, 29 Apr 2003 13:33:28 -0500, Dave Kegel wrote:

>Let's start a poll.  Who will lunch their trans/diff first, J.V.O. or Ronny
>P.?  I think they're currently tied at three rebuilds a piece (per year).
>:)

If someone wants to buy the gas, I'll bring my truck and trailer, so that
someone
can get a ride home after they spread their car all over the dragstrip!!

;-)

George
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