Billet Shafts In Autos???
08-13-2008, 06:48 AM
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Billet Shafts In Autos???
Who has broken one? What does it take to break an billet input? My employee snapped his at 35 mph under normal driving.... Cant see how this is possible with a Comp and RV injectors. Was it a bad part to begin with from that place out of Flordia? Its twisted the end clean off of the shaft where it is in the converter. Ill try to post pics later on today.
08-13-2008, 06:57 AM
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I have broken a billet output, Stock Intermediate, but never a input shaft. Nock on wood
What kind of shaft was it? TCS, Sonnax. One the time of breakage, He must of damaged it sometime before doing something unless it was just a faulty part. Inputs usually always break under normal conditions, after they've been weakend already.
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What kind of shaft was it? TCS, Sonnax. One the time of breakage, He must of damaged it sometime before doing something unless it was just a faulty part. Inputs usually always break under normal conditions, after they've been weakend already.
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08-13-2008, 03:04 PM
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Everything can be broken if you try hard . The thing with the Billet Shafts is thay will only take about 100 to 150 hard runs then there done . So for a guy that dont race but has some power about a year and 20 to 30,000 miles of hard every day running some towing and thats it . So if the stock one made it a month or two your lucky. Sorry it broke , thats the price we pay to play
08-13-2008, 05:16 PM
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Everything can be broken if you try hard . The thing with the Billet Shafts is thay will only take about 100 to 150 hard runs then there done . So for a guy that dont race but has some power about a year and 20 to 30,000 miles of hard every day running some towing and thats it . So if the stock one made it a month or two your lucky. Sorry it broke , thats the price we pay to play
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which brand do you run in the 02?
08-13-2008, 06:54 PM
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I'd start checking converter alignment and flywheel alignment and what not. Either he's beating the tar out of that thing or something is tweaked and putting abnormal strain on it. There's no reason he should be busting inputs like that. My stock input lasted for 140k miles with boosted launches and even out lasted the factory transmission.
08-13-2008, 09:29 PM
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this is my input shaft. i have a 99 2 boxes 1 fuel 1 timing, i have bosch 275rv injectors, progaurd 7 feeding a 40, bd exhaust man, 150/150 stand pipe and lines, 186... on the clock stock shaft shattered under normal driving conditions goin up hill under normal load, fine replaced with this suncoast new converter an pump, something started chattering so we replaced the stock flex plate with a bd sfi approved one ran fine. now this truck is a daily driver plus it pulls a trailor on the weekends now it occationally will go to the track or pull the sled, but in any case i broke a suncoast input and we (me and redliner) were just pondering how
08-13-2008, 10:14 PM
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With 275's and a stock turbo I'm better your pushing 350-375ish. No where near enough to snap a shaft. Life I said, it sounds like something is tweaked and off center and that's what's breaking the shafts. Not your power.
08-14-2008, 12:31 AM
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There's a local guy around here that did break a billet suncoast input but he runs the CRAP out of this truck and lugs the engine often by manually locking the converter in 2nd. Add on top of that the stress the tranny goes through by spinning 24" alcoas. http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu...a-9c07539912be
08-14-2008, 06:42 AM
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He is running a BD flexplate. Had to replace the stock one cause the converter bolts came loose somehow and egged the holes. Got to love local trans shops doing work for you.... Any who that may have been when it started to go cause that would make the converter not be in line. Good point camo