Originally Posted by kicker91laser
Originally Posted by OneBadGMC
ANY 3 speed transmission should never be put in neutral, and should only be doing burnouts in 2nd and 3rd, never first. If enough HP is on tap, do high gear burnouts only.
Doing burnouts in 1-2 can cause low clutch sprag failure, with catastrophic failure of the drum.
This is very good to know. Is it the 1-2 shift that cause the low sprag to fail? Is it ok to leave it in 1st just to clean the tires off?
http://www.yellowbullet.com/forum/sh...d.php?t=120213
We had a huge discussion about it on Yellowbullet a few months back.
I dont think cleaning the tires off ever came up, but, as in post #7 from that thread...
The low roller clutch is designed to work under load & for this reason it is highly recomended that you do not do burn outs or hard peddle the car while in first gear. The loading & unloading of the low roller clutch causes the rollers to slam against the springs & flatten them. If the low roller fails under load it will send the dirct drum to 3.25 + times engine speed, usally very bad when there is a cast drum involved.
So, dont sound like a good idea to me.