Ever wondered whats inside of a 5 grand axle

pete walton · Post by **pete walton** » Tue Feb 21, 12 5:49 pm

Short retirement

mopar_mark · Post by **mopar_mark** » Tue Feb 21, 12 6:40 pm

Nice bit of stuff their pete

God job it's not painted, as there could of been arguments about it being the right or wrong shade for a Mopar

Cant you have that away while Daves having a nap

It's OK, Harry will be the 'Usual Suspect'

db · Post by db » Tue Feb 21, 12 9:26 pm

OOOoooohhhhh

How do i get to be a race mechanic? I'd work on stuff like that for free

Ivor · Post by **Ivor** » Wed Feb 22, 12 9:52 am

Now THAT is some serious kit!

autofetish · Post by **autofetish** » Wed Feb 22, 12 10:14 am

Thanks for sharing

pete walton · Post by **pete walton** » Wed Feb 22, 12 3:57 pm

Thats 5k without the carbon brakes,,???Christian axle 2.90 ratio...Mollinari clutch ( i think thats how you spell it)say 3k without the titanium scatter shield..... and.42 clutch packs, ,second hand from John Force....Reground and measured by Grumpy,,gives him something to do over the winter

Les Szabo · Post by **Les Szabo** » Wed Feb 22, 12 5:30 pm

Hi Pete, a nice insight into the EXPENSIVE world of running a Dragster, I built my whole car with £9k inc buying it for 3.. not in the same perf bracket I know, and 20yrs ago....reckon your motor was 3 times or more than that........

What times you running...hope you got some sponsors?

pete walton · Post by **pete walton** » Wed Feb 22, 12 5:44 pm

Les Szabo wrote:Hi Pete, a nice insight into the EXPENSIVE world of running a Dragster, I built my whole car with £9k inc buying it for 3.. not in the same perf bracket I know, and 20yrs ago....reckon your motor was 3 times or more than that........

What times you running...hope you got some sponsors?

Les this is not my car,i just take bits of it and put them back on...... Crank,bearings ,pistons and rods.....Fuel in fuel out...Thats it...Take the heads of when we are short staffed....Unless you got 100k to flush down the toilet ,, don,t even start the journey...and then 50k to run it for one season on the FIA tour, and you better pray you do not break it..

Les Szabo · Post by **Les Szabo** » Wed Feb 22, 12 6:23 pm

sorry mate....been out of it for a long time..don't know who's doin what these days, just been getting back into a bit lately......

Yeah 150k and pray you don't break it is about right....whats happened to TF in this country?

mopar_mark · Post by **mopar_mark** » Wed Feb 22, 12 11:00 pm

Les Szabo wrote:sorry mate....been out of it for a long time..don't know who's doin what these days, just been getting back into a bit lately......

Yeah 150k and pray you don't break it is about right....whats happened to TF in this country?

Whats happened to T/F - Well thats another league & naturally costs a lot more to go & play. . .

autofetish · Post by **autofetish** » Thu Feb 23, 12 6:55 am

pete walton wrote: Les this is not my car,i just take bits of it and put them back on...... Crank,bearings ,pistons and rods.....Fuel in fuel out...Thats it..

Has the boss ever let you have a blast down the pit lane.

It must be such a feeling when you hook that up.

Keep the dragster tec post coming this is a great in site never new they where clutch plates in a diff

Les Szabo · Post by **Les Szabo** » Thu Feb 23, 12 12:02 pm

mopar_mark wrote:
Les Szabo wrote:sorry mate....been out of it for a long time..don't know who's doin what these days, just been getting back into a bit lately......

Yeah 150k and pray you don't break it is about right....whats happened to TF in this country?
Whats happened to T/F - Well thats another league & naturally costs a lot more to go & play. . .

Yeah I know but its more than just money isn't it?, was hoping for more of an insight into whats gone wrong?....maybe the Pod ain't paying the right money etc??...I read they messed up the track at one big meet...

pete walton · Post by **pete walton** » Thu Feb 23, 12 5:22 pm

autofetish wrote:
pete walton wrote: Les this is not my car,i just take bits of it and put them back on...... Crank,bearings ,pistons and rods.....Fuel in fuel out...Thats it..
Has the boss ever let you have a blast down the pit lane.
It must be such a feeling when you hook that up.

Keep the dragster tec post coming this is a great in site never new they where clutch plates in a diff

The clutch pack is bolted to the crank,not in the diff,,,Prop shaft is about nine inches long..Clutch is either in or out,,no clutch managment system on this like the TF boys have....One run clutch is fried..... Change it after every run
No ,but young Ricky Pacham who has crewed for Dave since he was 16,he is now 30 ,, drove it last year..fastest he had ever been was a 12 in his BMW ...He ran a 6,, and clicked it af a 1000 ft.... Ricky is a bit of a Hemi guru,,,,Here is in action ,loves his Brutus T wrench does our Ricky

pete walton · Post by **pete walton** » Thu Feb 23, 12 6:07 pm

The old blown Meyer chassis car,,now hangs about in the Beaulie moter museum....All that car needs is a fuel system and it will run a 5.4

The job has some perks ,like the stupid pit truck...The Chandler brothers will let you know how many miles to the gallon this thing does

GTXJim · Post by **GTXJim** » Thu Feb 23, 12 8:30 pm

That bloody truck, the noise, rattles, sticking throttle and the mpg the best thing about the Silverline truck was taking it though the Hindhead tunnel screaming supercharged methanol injected V10 at 6 in the morning

Here's what Pete really did on the team