[Shotimes] Re: Was ? Now Abuse?

[Ron Porter]

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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