Originally Posted by sook
It really does not have anything to do with tight gear mesh or a one piece engine mount. Although the one piece engine mount is sweet. It was actually mentioned early on in this thread, but it is a very good truthful fact. Your engine must be near perfect to perpendicular to the gears. Keep the split between 4, 5 or 6 and it should be fine. Anything more and you are taking risk at losing the second gear. If your engine alignment is near perpendicular line to the gears without any odd angles, you will not have a striping problem.
Well this past State race, at Kissimmee Raceway, Kissimmee FL, 6 MTX4's, including mine, blew 2nd gear. Now I'm not new at this, and I think I might have blown 2nd gear in my MTX3, once in 2 years. Now I've gone threw 7 2nd gears now. Not sure what's going on, but I'm getting pretty tired of working all weekend to get the car dialed in, for 2nd gear to give up like it did, again.
2 cars that lost 2nd gear, were Mugen team drivers, that I won't mention names. 2 Other cars, are people in the top of the list for our division.
With us racing in Serpents back yard (Florida) you would think that the TEAM Mugen, would help all the none factory backed Mugens, at a State, or National event. Not so.