No worries. Since we're reasonably close, I thought I'd offer. Hate to lose much of the best time of the year for car use, but John S. is pretty quick on turnaround, so you might only be down a little while.

If anyone is looking for a modified 6 speed in perfect condition, still at TRE (would be shipped directly to you from TRE) please look here: https://www.evolutionm.net/forums/sh...d.php?t=214092 Thanks, all.

 

You were just getting it as a spare?

 

about how many track miles do you estimate before it broke?

 

500 road course miles, 200+ drag runs (100+ low 12s) all with a powershift on the 3-4, and about 20 autocrosses, although that's never higher than 3rd.

 

For me, about 1400 or so road course miles. zero drag runs. "aggressive" 32k miles of street driving. I think I launched the car once a long time ago.

 

I probably have close to 300 launches, since most of my autocrosses at the beginning were non-SCCA where I got 6 runs and almost always had room for a full launch. I dont' know if the launches would have any effect on 4th going bad, though. I think it was mostly my recent change to always using 4th all the way around both local tracks.

 

thank you for the info. you have been having a great time i see.

 

That is seriously messed up. Sorry to hear about that. This is making me worry about mine now..

 

I have a lot of experience with weak trannies. I have broken about 4 of them on my SE-R race car. The SE-R has one weak sauce tranny. Any pressure plate that was 30% stiffer than stock broke the tranny under racing conditions. The weakest gear was third gear, but I have broken 4th gear as well.

The way we finally reduced the failure was to run shockproof heavy gear oil and use stock like clutchs and pressure plates. Maybe 6 speed Evo owners should try using the shockproof heavy gear oil and see if that helps.

 

Yeah, like that is gonna happen.

Transmission coolers and tight tolerances are key.

 

Warr,

I use the Hawk Blue pads on my race car and they are great on a light weight car around 2500-2800 lbs. On the Evo, however, they will be overworked. There is a better hawk compound than the Blue, but its name escapes me right now. It is specifically designed for heavy cars like our Evos.

 

Hmm, ok, is it the HT-10 or HT-14?

 

Right on Clayton. There is nothing and I mean nothing like being on a road course. Drag racing, autox do not even come close. The amount of time you spend on the track when you go hotlapping if far far more than the amount of time you spend on the drag strip or autox. Once people try the road course, then they will be hooked.

And once you try actual door to door racing, thern hotlapping becomes pale by comparison.

 

Yeah, for now, I'll have to be content with time trials, but once the Evo is paid off, it will get caged for door-to-door racing.

 

How do you know? Did you try it? Did you break four trannies from road racing? Do you road race a car door-to-door?

I have been road racing since 2000 and I have three competition licenses, SCCA, NASA, and TCRA. How many do you have from road racing organiztions?

How can you tell if shockproof heavy will work or not, if you did not try it?