glagola1

Hating (in this case)= giving a lecture and ridiculing a poster instead of answering his question.

oh, and I'm sure you've never spun your tires... especially on a 1-2 shift.

vader1

Have I broken the drivetrain? No. I guess if I would break five I would be real smart, and if mine still works that means I don't know how to take care of it.

Your logic is stupid. If a guy sticks a cherry bomb up his dogs butt and the dog gets hurt, apparently you can comment on it unless you have been smart enough to do the same thing.

I know that putting mountain dew in my gas tank will hurt it, but according to your logic, I can't say that unless I actually try to burn a tank of it and break the car.

I would think that someone who has not done something stupid and broken his car might have credibilty versus someone who wanted to do a burnout and broke it. But this apparently is bizzaro world.

If somebody does something stupid, chances are, stupid people will jump in and defend it. He can do what he wants to his car. He can break it 1000 times if he wants to. Fine with me.

But are you so obtuse that you can not figure out that burnouts can break things? If you were doing burnouts and broke something, I doubt you would post questions about what everyone thought would be wrong with the car. You'd already have a good idea. Duh.

vader1

You also think that a guy who fries his stuff with a 7000 rpm dump and then has no clue what might be wrong will be able to do his own work? Sure.

Ek9

I think this really falls under the "Hitting a guy when he's down" catagory.

There's a difference between:

"It's probably your axles or diff"

and

"Hey, only an idiot would do that".

OP ALREADY knows he did something stupid. What pleasure do you get out of rubbing it in his face?

Sideways

Asking why is a lecture?

He did 7000 rpm and dropped the clutch in first gear, this is not shifting 1-2.

To quote the original poster:
My response included:
Is that not an answer?

As for the agressive clutch, I feel it will make a difference. We could debate this point.

And, for the record, I have never dropped the clutch at 7000 rpm while at a standstill in my S.

iDomN8U

This is dragging on, carry it over to PM or MSN.

Good luck with the fix

AusS2000

[QUOTE=Ek9,Jul 6 2006, 12:25 AM] That's not my point.

Ek9

My track car's constantly in the air. Tires, Brakes, fluid changes, pads, rotors. New bushings when the old ones get sloppy. Wheel bearings when I suspect they're close. I do pre-emptive maintainance sometimes so, I know I won't have any issues on the track. So far I haven't (knock on wood). All I need is to hit a wall because a wheel bearing siezes.

I suspect you're just using selective memory to prove a point. You probably take just as good a care of your machine as I do mine (if not better) which means you work on it all the time.

Accelerate maintaince just proves my point. You have to do more to maintain the car because driving on the track is so hard on it. Most people can go 3 years on brake fluid. I might go 3 months at most.

I don't think you're trying to say your maintainance schedule's the same as if it was just a commuter car are you?

Billman250

Tracking is not abuse. It's what the car was designed to do. So it wears on it a little more than normal driving. Point is, it's not a normal driving type of car, it's a roadster/sports car.

It was not meant to come out of the hole at high rpm's and stay together.

AusS2000

If you can't understand my previous post then it's never going to get through your thick skull.

Yes, I monitor my cars condition and maintain it. The difference is I have never had a part go from 100% to 0% with a loud bang because regardless of what I do with my car I do it with respect not abuse.

By your logic doing a 7000rpm clutch drop is the same as not driving the car at all. Even standing still the car will rust, so it's the same thing, only slower.

I may be using selective memory, but at least I'm not hanging on belligerantly to a losing argument.