Spiro had the same problem that JL had. When the axle housing "twists" that hard under torque, the U-joint comes in contact with the flange on the rearend and goes into a severe bind. There ain't a drive line in the world that will survive that. Probably a good thing he had alumimun in there, it would do less damage than a steel one.

I think a bunch of us are going to need traction bars soon.
Dale

 

Race: Pro Lightning Elimination Round 1
W/L Driver RT ET Speed

W Dave Pickrel .709 12.148 108.63
L Spiro Skokos .695 12.232 113.98

W Pau Duckett 1.100 10.475 124.09
L Bye NA NA NA

 

Dave pickrel, now theres a name i remember from cyberbrawl last july. I was so excited to make the semi finals my first time ever bracket racing,this and the fact that all the 454ss were getting half track head starts that i never bothered to look at his window,assuming his white gen1 was slow like most of the chevys,was i ever wrong as i think he pointed out that my light was green while sitting at the light.Can you say rookie mistake?Any way dave and his wife are real nice people.

 

I dunno, Devil. You got yours from Inland Empire, too? They told me to send it back and they would look at it; no promises. Sent it UPS Saturday so I probably won't hear anything for a while.

 

I have a picture of Spiro's broken driveshaft, but I'm not sure how to load it on to this thread. I can email it if someone else knows how to do this.

 

sixpipesgo@aol.com

I'll post it.

 

Looks like "RTKILLA" was running some good times as well...

 

Yours truly came in 6th out of 50+ trucks.

They were using a .400 sportsman tree which was odd but made it interesting.

I red lit with a .399. GRRRRRR.

I was with .02 of in my times during qualifying and eliminations. Mr. consistency here...

[This message has been edited by Speedin Bob (edited 05-21-2001).]

 

...Not to mention using the F-1's!

Bob, do you know the lineup of the rest of the top 6.....after the rain ended?

 

BTW
I hope everyone made it home OK.

 

Let me tell you what guys, I was so scared when I heard over the PA that a black generation two lightning just blew piece's all over the track. I was running in the pro L class and I was going against this gen1 white L, so we did our little dance and as soon as I get done I hear over the PA, all this stuff about the bottom end of this truck just went all over the place. Well I get to the scale's and I see johnny comming up behind me, so new it was spiro who broke something. so immediatly I think oh chit, the Nitrous blew up his motor. well I get my truck back to the pits, and get on the little Goped and scoot on over to see how spiro is doing. I pull up and he's got this big smile on his face. So I was like what are you so happy about, and he was just so happy that his driveshaft broke and it was nothing else. the truck launch so damn hard that it just twisted his driveshaft, and if you remeber the way johnny's shaft broke, well spiro's would hacve broke in the same spot as his. I don't think I'll ever put a aluminum drive shaft on my truck. my chit launch's to hard now. It was kinda scarry, but then I saw everything was OK!

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PFA,

The final six lineup was as follows, winner has a W by there name.

WRobert Churan (sp?) vs. William
WJerry Hart vs. Speedin Bob (.399 redlite)
WSteven Craig vs. CarolinaLightning (.399 redlite)

just realized I was the only one of the final six on street tires....

Final Results:

Robert Churan (Superchips)
Steven Craig (Diablosport/Johnny Lightning)
Jerry Hart (unsure)



[This message has been edited by Speedin Bob (edited 05-21-2001).]

 

Thanks Bob!
Just to point out, there was one other that I know of that was on street tires, William, with the Silver 2001.

GOOD JOB GUYS!!!

 

PFA,

I stand corrected..... DOH!!

lack of sleep is a bad thing........

 

It sounds that the breakage was minor. I can tell from the posts that you guys had a blast.

Congradulations to all!

I make's all the hard work worth it, doesn't it?

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