[Z06] Problems with vette
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From: marlborough massachusetts
Problems with vette
Bought this 2002 zo6 a mos ago...got some mods done to it,drive it kinda hard...car was dynoed at 450hp....was taking my mother for a ride the other nite and i was burning out and thought i blew the rear end..(stage 4 dte rear end)...not knowing anything about cars ,brought it to my regular mechanic and i ordered a stock,used rear end..before him putting it in he tells me the just the case is cracked and the rear shaft for the transmission is blown apart!!!dont know what to do???? Looking for some feedback!!!!thanks alot!!!!!
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Racer
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Melting Slicks
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From: Northern VA
That is pretty good, i haven scared my mom a couple times in my car but i don't think she would go for a burnout...
Sounds like you need a new trans and diff. That is common when you blow out the diff it takes the trans with it. You could go with a built setup or stay stock. It's a lot of work to pull out all that stuff just to put stock stuff back in that will probably break again. You will be paying a fortune to have a shop install all of this. I would look at a shop that deals with modified vettes who knows how to work on them. Either way going through a shop plan on spending an easy $2-3k.
Sounds like you need a new trans and diff. That is common when you blow out the diff it takes the trans with it. You could go with a built setup or stay stock. It's a lot of work to pull out all that stuff just to put stock stuff back in that will probably break again. You will be paying a fortune to have a shop install all of this. I would look at a shop that deals with modified vettes who knows how to work on them. Either way going through a shop plan on spending an easy $2-3k.
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sorry about the bad news.. Unfotunately, the more horspower you put down the more likely you are to tear something else up that was not engineered for that kind of power.. Back in the 90's I had an Eagle Talon Tsi (Turbo) same thing as the Mitsubish Eclipse.. It was very common in our car club to see every driveline component torn apart in cars running times under 12 seconds.. These Turbocharged engines had a lot of potential, unfortunatly the rest of the driveline was not engineered with mods in mind
