I'm more curious as to where the airbag pops out through all those buttons on the steering wheel? Is it a balloon animal kinda deal?
They don't have airbags, 'Nerds. They're for pussies. And Yukon Cornelius's wheel was a very rare option. EDIT: Tell us more about what you plan to do to it, Cornelius.
Still gathering a few more parts Dixie. Here's what I have so far: Detroit Speed subframe connectors, Koni yellows, Ground Control weight jacks, 17x9.5 wheels (still need to get some 275/40's). I'm gonna blow the 305 up with my 82mm Borg Warner turbo and then install a 383. Going to run MegaSquirt as a fuel injection controller. I am going to go to a distributorless ignition like the LS motors to free up some room because this winter I plan on modding the firewall and moving the motor back 2" or so. I'll be bending up a cage as well, but I need to convert my bender to air over hydraulic to save my arms. I'm going to upgrade my brakes as well, still looking into what kind of discs to use on the rear. I have a 9" that I'm going to narrow to stock dimensions and put in. That dash isn't mine, it belongs to a person I made a set of rings for who was doing some wiring at the time. I'm removing my center console right now to install some relays for the power windows. That should speed them up a little bit. My car only has 80,000 miles on it and has never seen a winter. It hasn't even seen rain in 22 years.
Holy shit, it sounds like you're serious about this! That distributorless LS ignition looks freakin' sweet, and I wanted to do it on my 305 (and I was planning to upgrade to a Vortec-headed 383) but I just got to thinking: Why not just swap in an LS while I'm at it? That kit ignition kit isn't cheap, and for some more investing (you're planning on replacing the engine sooner or later anyway), I'd upgrade to a 6.0 or 6.2 out of a truck. Of course, I can't afford any of this at the time, so that advice is worth what you paid for it. As far as brakes go, I installed the LS1 Big Brake Upgrade on my 'Bird years ago, and it is by far one of the best mods I've ever made to that car. Just do a search for that, and you will see that the guy who makes those kits offers stuff that is even better than the LS1 setup, depending on how much money you have. I'm still running drum brakes in the rear, with 7/8" S10 wheel cylinders.
They want stupid money for pullout engines here in Canada, that I would still have to rebuild myself for peace of mind. I have a set of LS heads sitting on a shelf in the shop. I need to find a 5.3 to rebuild for my Yukon Xl as it is just about to hit 300,000km. That would leave me with a 5.3 to rebuild for the bird. Just not sure I'm ready to leave the old gen 1 sbc behind yet. I need to get some work done on my 56 as well (floors). It came to me from Kentucky in a trade for my old ext-cab s10 that had a healthy 355 in it.
That reminds me that in the 1960s during the height of the muscle car era, the hemi engine was like a $1,500 option to your basic automobile and there was no warranty.
What the fuck? How does that even happen? Was this a stock Hellcat or did some one put a tune on this car? Even then... How the fuck does this happen?
Big sticky tires and high torque and a dropped clutch. We broke tons of half-shafts (the drive shaft of mid/rear engine cars) when I was racing. When a care comes in for a fuel-only stop, and the slicks are big and hot and sticky, and the driver forgot he didn't get new tires, he'd dump the clutch at high revs when the car came down off the jacks, the tires would hook up solid, and the shaft would snap. If this guy was dragging or something he could run into something similar. That being said, I've only seen a few shafts twist instead of break.
Those Hellcats must have some serious axles in them for the drive shaft to twist instead of the axles snapping. Perhaps it would be wise to use the axles as a kind of shear pin so shit up the line doesn't get fucked up.
Cheaper to replace a driveshaft than having to cover rear axle repairs. Driveshafts are the "fuse" in the driveline.
I was thinking that, but they would be your first line of defense in protecting the third member and possibly the transmission. Isn't that why Porsches and newer Vette's use Torque tube assemblies?
My understanding is that torque tubes are very old school technology that were only used on the 924, 928, 944, and 951's. I don't know of any modern day Porsche's that use them. I could be totally wrong, of course.
I just want to know what looks were exchanged between the pit crew and the driver after these fuck-ups.