pudges951

Resurrecting this thread just to say I recently joined the broken shaft club unfortunately.. Shaft broke off in trans coupler.

piperporsche180944

WOW!!!

pudges951

haha, leave it to my luck to break something that doesn't usually break in these cars, I don't even have a lsd transmission.

Jeff951NJ

I had the shaft break on me as well... also Spec Stage 3 Clutch

Lemming

Curious as to when the shafts broke, under power or during a down shift with no rev matching?

pudges951

Mine was hard to tell because after the first bang I heard I drove another 20 miles until the car quit moving under it's own power. Mine was more due to the fact of a cracked housing putting a bind on the shaft I believe.

333pg333

+1 It would be good to know under what circumstances these breakages are happening. I suspect some guys are launching off the lights but it would be good to get some confirmation. I wonder if Constantine's TT might offer any resistance to this happening?

pudges951

I have only put about 4k miles on my car in the last two years, but the car was never once launched in my ownership, I don't do the street racing thing. I can count on one hand the number of times I put it through a hard 1-2 shift, the last being when the tt housing cracked. about 155k miles on the car.

Jeff951NJ

Note. mine had 100,000 miles on it as well... But its happend when I was shifting form 1st to 2nd under half throttle.... The car had a spec 3 clutch and made about 315rwhp at the time. Funny thing was it happened on the street and I was at the track the two days prior to it with out any issuses.