[Shotimes] Re: Was ? Now Abuse?

[Jacob Cassidy]

I have to agree with Ron here. I live in a Mustang and BMW 3 series
infested area. My '90 gets a good redline run near daily. The tranny is
fine and the clutch (which is only the second in the car) never gives a
problem. Of course the car only rolled 80k the other day so maybe I
won't have some of the issues a 190k car would.

-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net
[mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Ron Porter
Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2003 3:32 PM
To: 'sho2go'; 'shotimes'
Subject: RE: [Shotimes] Re: Was ? Now Abuse?

Sorry, I totally disagree, and I respectfully submit that your comments
are
based on false assumptions and ill-informed rumors.

Yeah, if you drive like grandma, I guess you would view dragstrip use as
"abuse". I have never "dropped" the clutch in a SHO, and my dragstrip
starts
are the only thing that might be slightly different than my street
starts
(in as I don't spin the wheels that much on a street start). Shifting is
NO
different.

I go almost 80K on the Ford clutch in my '89 (after going through the
original weak clutch before the recall), and 10 years of
multiple-daily-7k
runs and hard shifting finally had the diff pins go after 11 years and
~195K
miles.

The cars are durable....the trannies are VERY durable....and the
clutches
are durable if you drive properly (even at the strip) and don't get them
too
hot.

These cars are OLD!!!!!! Trannies/diffs dying, etc at over 150K miles
and/or
more than 7-8 years of age are to be expected!! Those of us who bought
new
Shos in the early days, and drove the snot out of them, did not have
these
issues when the cars were 5 years old or newer.

I hav3e first-hand knowledge than many SHO owners have NEVER seen
redline,
and drive their cars like they were Buicks.
 People who know their s**t about these cars, and drive them as they
were
intended to be driven, know better.

Ron Porter 

-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net
[mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of sho2go
Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2003 4:03 PM
To: shotimes
Subject: [Shotimes] Re: Was ? Now Abuse?


OK, foot out of mouth now ;-)  that wasn't meant at anybody in
particular;
everyone has his own button that gets pushed in a particular way.  If
I'm
looking for a street car, it won't see the strip ever.  To me that is
abuse;
no use going to the strip unless you're going to drop the clutch and
power
shift.  I built Chevys in the 60s that did that and would keep going
forever.  Shoforum and these boards are full of people asking about
rebuilding trannys and so forth, these cars aren't happy doing this sort
of
thing for very long.  I think its a stage of life thing; I have no
problem
doing a quick redline run with someone on the freeway, but no more
running
the ATX up to stall speed or slipping my foot off the clutch.
Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Nunnally" <manunnal@netheaven.com>
To: "shotimes" <shotimes@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2003 11:28 AM
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] High Mileage Vs. "Remanufactured" Car
Values.....was: 94 Moonlight Blue MTX FS


> >Even if Mark's re-engined, custom painted etc. MTX had only 50K
miles, I
> >wouldn't be interested in a car that got its miles 1/4 mile at a
time.
>
> I didn't get a chance to run George's 3.2L at the track :)
>
> And I'm like Ron P.  I'd rather have a clean interior/exterior 100k
car
that
> was maintained and *driven hard*, than a 20k clean interior/exterior
that
> sits around in the garage all the time and gets 1/4 throttle driving.
I
can
> just about bet you which one will run harder.
>
> You can drive a car hard and not abuse it.  There's a difference.
>
> mark
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