Originally Posted by mgreen
I love the car and how it handles but I kept on striping out the 2nd gear. I do not know what to do. I notice that the swaybar sort of touches the 2-speed housing. It happens about 2 minutes into a race. I'm not using the engine-brace so could it be flexing?
As Scott told you, why you would run your car without the engine brace?
Basically flex and distortion on the place where the engine and gears come is the worst thing you can desire for the correct handling & gearbox healt of your car.
If you need to generate more grip, you can do it via other ways, never making the car flexes on that vital point. A flexible chassis makes the car easier to drive it but is not the way where you need to generate more grip.
Originally Posted by mgreen
Well after reading the past post, my problem might be the clutchbell touching the 2peed housing because theres a ring on it from something rubbing it. Also, I guess I could smooth out the shifting of first to second gear because rightnow it has a hard snap to it. I like that feeling but if its going to create a situation with the 2nd gear, I could do without it. I ran the car yesterday and I was amazed at how hard I could push it and how good the setting stayed after a race. With the TC3, everything would change after 20 min.
If you need more snap on the shifting to the second gear, you can do it via other ways, a too tight 2nd gear clucht makes the shifting too late. Probably you can get better results changing the 2nd gear and assuring the surface where the shoes ride is free of dirt, debriss and sanding a little to make it rougher (sand a little the surface of the shoes too, just to asure that none glaze is over the shoe where it contacts with the bell).