This luckily isn’t my car. My friend Clint back in CA did a solid launch and thought his clutch went out. After he replaced the clutch the trans still didn’t work so he tore it down and found this…
I know DSM transmissions have a pretty bad rep when it comes to handling power in general but usually we see stripped third or fourth gears and blow up hubs. I have never seen a center differential just break clean in half.
Epic.
I didn’t post much about it, but the rear end in the Evo exploded late last season (Sept) from a 2nd gear roll.
corvette diff
Wow thats a good one… I have my old center diff spiders, in bout 100 pieces, in a box kicking around somewhere.
Impressive!
damnnn must of been a 9 sec eclipse
I think it had to be a preexisting defect in the differential. His car made good power since it was a 2.3l 4G63 also running a Holset HX-35 but it was far from running 9’s. It was extra weird that this happened especially since his stock axles survived.
That, OR something else failed in the diff to cause that. It would take a tremendous amount of torque to shear that on it’s own in good condition.
Definitely one for the books right there.