[justa6]

Power shifting is hard on the whole drivetrain, but if your car's been built with a strong driveline it should handle the trips to the strip.

One thing that "Red" at McCloud had me do for my car is to have heavy straps placed on the pressure plate. He told me that the Buick V6's (Non Turbo's) rev very high and because of that the Pressure plate and the sheet metal cover on it want to part company when they are held together with just rivets. So they put 3 (I think) straps from the pressure plate to the cover. He also set me up with a dual friction clutch, pucks towards the flywheel and regular Material towards the trans. It seems to work fine but slightly grabby on the street. Not bad though.

Back to power shifting. The clutch is in and out so quickly that you basically tap the pedal. I think the hydraulic throw out bearing works well because its always in adjustment but it works with all different setups. If your quick it should sound like an automatic trans shifting.

IMO, its really the only way to drag race a manual shift car and make it competitive.

Can you build boost at the starting line? On my Grand National I can only get 4lbs before the front wheels push through the lights (locked). That's with slicks. If you can get some boost that might help the ET also if you've got any traction.

Shame Northwest doesn't fly to Australia anymore. I'd love to go. Closest I ever get is Bombay, oh well some day...

Regards and Gday,