Anybody Broken Anything When Launching?

[PranK]

After reading this post about a journo snapping a drive shaft (and possibly more) after a spirited launch I'm wondering if any SAU members have had any issues like this?

Considering this would have been Nissans 'Journo Car' I'd be surprised if it hadn't already had a seriously tough life.

[Jordy32]

haha, good read! - Poor R35 probably gets the tits thrashed off it for "journalism purposes" lol!

Other than traction, nothing as of yet, I've split a red bull though, that was horrible - Going to miss the N/A reliability in that sense!

Edited May 25, 2015 by Jordy32

[jjman]

Iv been in a car that snapped the driveshaft (late 90's XR6).

You have no idea the racket that a driveshaft can make beating against the car and road at x000 rpm as the driver tries to get going but not knowing what was wrong (driveshaft had snapped near the diff so plenty of length to be crashing around).

When the car was repaired they said we had nearly beaten through the fuel lines too which would have ended pretty badly for everyone....

[PranK]

I know that sound all too well.

[IOWNU]

No issues here.

Must have been an unlikely failure.

[PranK]

No issues here.

Must have been an unlikely failure.

I reckon yours (and most privately owned) have had much easier lives than those lived by Journo test vehicles.

Or, maybe not Snowy's.

[jjman]

I know that sound all too well.

yep. that's snapped good. what caused this? a launch?

my friend broke his doing drift on a grass field and then coming off onto the road (from a verge so the car jumped down onto the road) with the wheels still doing in the vicinity of 100+kmh and the car doing about 30.

What did the laws of physics and friction saw to the driveshaft?- SNAP!

[BLISTC]

wheel hop from a poorly prepped surface when launching can damage the drive shafts, but only so in big HP GTRs. It can also break transmission cases, and take out front diffs which in turn can damage the block.

[zap]

Hmm, never happened to me, I think its very rare case