Actually that happened to me a week ago. I took my 98 R with 12K miles to the dragstrip. I used Brigestone RE540s tires @ 18PSI. I did the usual burnout... and launched at 5500/6000RPM as usual. The car gripped like hell! and seemed to bounce... as a result a 2.0 60FT was made! I felt the dash coming to my face! Never did the car grip this way. I continued my run and everything seemed ok, no unusual noises. After this I tried again, launched a bit a higher revs and as I moved off the line a huge vibration and clunking noise came from the car

I went to my mechanic and he told me that it could be a broken cv joint. He removed the left axle and yes both inner and outer cv joints where damaged. I took my car for a spin and the clunking noise could be heard again! Back to his garage ; he removed the right axle and the inner cv joint was damaged too!! So 3 cv joint broken! To confirm this we installed another axle, took my car for a spin and the clunking noise was gone.

Has this ever happened to anyone of you? Do you think the damge was done because I have weared engine mounts? Should get stronger mounts? Keep in mind the my R still has 12K miles and was taken to the dragstrip about 6 times.

 

drag racing breaks stuff.

you gotta pay to play.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Big Phat R &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">drag racing breaks stuff.

you gotta pay to play.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Amen brother. I broke 2 one time with my civic back in the day, but never 3.

 

i got mine covered under warranty without any questions. you should take yours in.

 

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That would be great but over here we one have 1 year of warranty.

 

I broke my stock axles during the break-in period after I installed my JUN pistons. I didn't even launch hard, I justleft from a stoplight and the car started to vibrate like crazy and made all sorts of wierd noises. It sucked that I broke the axle but at least I knew that I was making more power, lol. So I bought some DSS stage III's.

 

That must have been a sticky track!

 

No, but I sheared an axle at the "C" clip on my 92 automatic Nissan Sentra.

Maybe I gOt Da MaD tYtE sKiLlz ToO yO!