That's a pretty expensive ka-boom, srt-8 fail

921 HP Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 Completely Grenades Transmission

…Despite a very, very long list of upgrades to this black SRT8, including a custom intake manifold, supercharger with intercooler, nitrous, 90 lb injectors, huge suspension upgrades, a roll cage, brakes and the list goes on, the transmission apparently didn’t get enough love and blew the hell up when the truck was idling in a parking lot at the drag strip. When we say blew up we don’t mean the valve body blew a seal or the torque converted burned up, we mean the transmission case blew up and sent bits of shrapnel into the cabin and left guts and fluids all over the tarmac. Aside from catastrophic failures on top fuel cars we’ve never seen a transmission on thoroughly grenaded — consider us duly impressed. Fear not though, as the owner is taking it in stride and already building a new version, this one sporting twin-turbos…

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Yikes!

A Jeep transmission blew up? That’s crazy!

Mopars never blow

That happened at idle?

excessive heat and pressure is bad

Must have already been fucked to happen at idle. Only thing i can think of is that something was already busted, just barely hanging on, and while idling gave way and got caught between two gears.

how the fuck did the tranny blow up like that just from idling? god damn.

wow that’s pretty crazy

decided to read into this a bit… turns out the tranny was built to handle 1200hp. The cause is not known yet

http://www.modernmuscleforum.com/showthread.php?t=535&page=2

Idling = heat = boom

sounds like some nightmare from cazwrx :rofl

jeep converters dont blow ,thats assinine …thats why scattershields are needed when pushin real power

thats crazy. did the guy get hurt?

oooh boy