Got the SHAFT!!!!!!!!!

[69MyWay]

Man...

Took my 69 Camaro to www.speedinc.com today to do the first live dyno tune since I put the car together. It has been running on a mail order tune since 2005. At that...it ripped a 12.5 at the quarter at 111 on C5 Goodyear runflats. It has carried me 11K trouble free happy miles...and been to the 1/8th mile many times. I am not shy about the throttle either when I'm out of traffic.

With all that said...I found out two things. First...all this time I have only had 85% of my throttle. I wondered why the car laid down a little at the top of the quarter...now I know why.

SECOND - MY DRIVE SHAFT SNAPPED at 6,300 RPM and destroyed the exhaust, some tunnel wiring, and the floor pan.

We rescheduled to finish it up on 5/14 - but I have to obviously fix it by then. I'm also a bit concerned about making the mid west challenge if I don't pull it together.

Funny thing is, I'm not mad about it. I'm glad it happened there...and not anywhere else. I almost drove the car the 150 mile one way trip to the dyno, but opted out as a buddy was giving me some mufflers for my wife's car that wouldn't have fit in the camaro.

Sorry for the long post. Now I have to try to make some lemonade out of the lemons.

Oh...before it broke it put down 362 hp at the rear wheels at the moment of breakage.