[Clois Harlan]

Most of the tracks we go to we go into the corners in third gear, usually from a down shift. I do the same thing with my toploader. I know that the transmission is capable of handling this torque because several of the others are running a similar set-up.

I failed to mention he has a 347 stroker engine. I believe he has indexed the bellhousing because I remember discussing this with him after a previous failure. He bought the transmission from another racer at Road America last year and I believe the trany was new and came with the bell housing. The first three or four times he broke we blamed his inability to re-build the trany on the breakage.

Keep the ideas coming. Jay Nordstrom has suggested that when he had the wide roll bar installed the welder got the frame tweaked and the engine-trans are out of alignment causing stress on the whatever gear he is in when cornering at speed.