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Tectonics racing spool.



Thanks for all the opinions...

I guess if I want this thing i'll have to swap in a "race" tranny for the
winter and a street tranny for the summer....



----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Bubb" <jdbubb@ix.netcom.com>
To: "Jason Adams" <roclist@yahoo.ca>; "0sciroccolist"
<scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 10:46 AM
Subject: Re: Tectonics racing spool.


> "NOT FOR STREET USE"
> That seems to be Techtonics professional opinion since it says it right
> there in the link you provided!
> I bet after a 1000 miles of fighting the steering around EVERY street
corner
> you'll wished you would have popped the extra $300 for an LSD!
> The spool might be good on ice racing with heavily studded tires where
both
> tires are spinning all the time, but I bet it'll make things worse in bad
> conditions on the street with regular snow tires cause then one tire will
> almost always be slipping even with no power.
> I'm just guessing that it will be treacherous in bad weather street use,
but
> for dry weather I'll bet you get the best upper body workout you never
> wanted.
> Dan
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jason Adams" <roclist@yahoo.ca>
> To: "0sciroccolist" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 12:02 PM
> Subject: Tectonics racing spool.
>
>
> How bad would using this be on the tranny, axels, tires, etc... if it
wasn't
> used in a drag racing application. Obviously there would be zero
> differential action.  Reason I'm asking is cause this would be great for
my
> racing application (on ice) but I still drive this car on the pavement,
not
> much mind you, maybye 4500 miles/year, 2000 might be on dry pavement. I
know
> you're saying just get a quaife, but I can't justify that much money and
the
> tectonics spool would definately be trick.
>
> if you have no idea what I'm talkin about see...
>
> https://www.techtonicstuning.com/viewpart.asp?partnum=498.100
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