Ty,
I really can't answer your first question as I am just entering the PT world myself.
As far as I can tell there are alot of people on this board that drive their cars hard, that is one of the reasons I like this community so much. Alot of people talk, but not many back up what they say. As far as expense, it is not all that different. Maybe 2-3 hundred bucks. As I said the issue is brake kits, i don't know of any street kits with parking brakes.
Your third comment is only partially true. I never dealt with 500 mile races. I was involved with asphalt short track racing on .5 mile paved ovals. Most of these races were between 25 and 50 laps. In these short races I have absolutely seen Moser, Strange etc. axles break due to the side loads. I don't have personal experience yet, but i would think that on most road coarses during the length of a race or hot lapping you could achieve a similar number of cycles with the amount of turns on the coarse.
As far as quick third member changes, you could look at this in several ways. You may not need changes for a particular track, but you would make it easy on yourself to say change from a road trip gear to a track gear to a drag strip gear. Althought any rear with a drop out third member can accomodate this somewhat easily the floater adds to the ease.
I would absolutely run a floater at Bonneville. If for nothing else I keep all for wheels even with a broken axle. That's key! LOL
All this being said, we did not put a floater in our truck project. While we are building it with the PT style, my Dad will see very little if any real track time with it. So the massive amount of choices in brake packages lead us to use a standard 9" custom built.
Later
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