Tommy079

So my modding mentality is going to be this:

I'd like to take my car to the local drag track once I've added significant performance mods to check for gains in quickness. But as I was sharing this idea with a mechanic friend of mine he warned me about potentially damaging various components of my rear end.

My mod plan is:

Tuner...then race to see how much of a benefit it is my stock setup.
4.10's and LOK rebuild kit- have new tunes programmed and race again.
Stall - Race again

A couple years down the road probably a super charger - then dyno tune, and race again.

And if I ever feel wild, maybe nitrous.

At some point in there I'm gonna throw on some stickier tires, and I may race again after that. I'm thinking I don't want to do stickies and a performance mod at the same time and then race cuz I won't know how much of a gain the mod got me.

Here's my concern, if I continually put my car under high torque/high speed tests am I going to add additional wear and potentially damage other vital parts on my car?

Do I need to beef other parts up to ensure that my car can handle these upgrades??? I don't want the stall to rev the motor up all high and kick in those 4.10's and then tweak my rear end or something like that.

What should I be thinking about here???

dwtjr3

I think the main thing you should be worried about is your torque boxes. So look into some of those battle boxes they will be strong enough. And then you could go 31 spline axles but since your auto u wont be doing neutral drops (well i hope not) so i dont think you need the axles too bad, I think with the reinforce torque boxes you will be fine

mrtstang

Some people luck out and run stock clutch, trans, rear end, sticky tires, etc...and not have problems. I'm one of them lol. I've probably made 30 passes down the strip in my ride. Maybe 10-12 passes on the nitrous. Granted at some point something will give (especially with 500 rwtq) but until then i'm not changing anything.

WannaBeGearHead

A slow auto won't break anything lol

ctgreddy

i have full bolt ons, 4.10's and a 3800 stall with drag radials and i'm not very worried about breaking my stock rear end. with an auto you preload the trans/driveshaft/rear end before taking off so the there's faaaarrrrr less shock then if you were going to launch a manual car.

Tommy079

Awesome...that's really encouraging.

Tommy079

Hey! I'll be getting faster

ctgreddy

that's what i love about the auto it's so much easier on the car when you launch. and it requires far less launch rpm to get good 60's thanks to the torque multiplication.

uberstang1

Torque Boxes

FlamingoGT

As a side note, is this the 01 vert you're doing this to? Will they let you run a vert on the strip? I could easily be way off here, but I thought it was a no-no due to the safety issue of not having a hard top.
But back to the original question and related to this too... it would be a good idea to replace the SFCs and put in some other bracing. But wouldn't you need a cage of at least a minimal sort on the strip too? That would account for the other bracing.
It's too early in the morning for me... maybe I'm not making any sense here...