Boosted Falcon

Gday fellas new to the site and I thought I should introduce myself.

I own a BF XR6T with some mods to it. Heres a photo of me breaking my input shaft.

Haha, killer photo
anymore details o the car?

<3 seduce.

I don't even know what's done to it and I love it already.

Clutch smoke or wafting tyre smoke?

Any pics of the damage?

T56? Pretty good effort busting the input shaft if so. Sidestep clutch on slicks?

I reckon... I've absolutely thrashed the CRAP out of mine and the splines aren't even marked!

EFFalcon wrote:Haha, killer photo
anymore details o the car?

Yes mate I'll whack a bit of info up soon.

NUT347 wrote:<3 seduce.

Wasn't that keen on seduce at the start but its grown on me now.

Bipolar wrote:I don't even know what's done to it and I love it already.

hahaha thanks mate

Rollin wrote:Clutch smoke or wafting tyre smoke?
Any pics of the damage?

No clutch I'm just warming up the tyres before I go for a squirt. Damage isn't much to look at,

but I'll post a pick soon.

TUFED6 wrote:T56? Pretty good effort busting the input shaft if so. Sidestep clutch on slicks?

Nah shes got the standard ZF6Speed Auto and I was on a set of 17s Maxxis tyres.

Well at the start the car look like this when I bought it....stock as with 290rwhp

You snapped an input shaft on a ZF? How often do people do that?

Very often with a bit of power, pretty much the weak link of the box when pushing em.

yeah first thing to go in a zf is often input shaft.. few mobs do stronger ones now tho i do believe... wouldnt have been a cheap exercise getting it rebuilt i would imagine?

And here I was thinking they were bombproof. That sucks.

What power do you need to break an input shaft in a zf?

Rollin wrote:You snapped an input shaft on a ZF? How often do people do that?

Not that often that I've heard but once you start playing with big hp then yeah, you play you pay.

needfordspeed wrote:Very often with a bit of power, pretty much the weak link of the box when pushing em.

Exactly

bentls wrote:yeah first thing to go in a zf is often input shaft.. few mobs do stronger ones now tho i do believe... wouldnt have been a cheap exercise getting it rebuilt i would imagine?

What I did was got a 2nd hand box through a mate with 22k on it for $1600. The old box will now get a make over for when I break this one.

Rollin wrote:And here I was thinking they were bombproof. That sucks.

Bomb proof maybe....Stinkbomb proof?......nup

LOW_XR wrote:What power do you need to break an input shaft in a zf?

I had been invited into a comp where in was classic v plastic at Willowbank.....Hot day, multiple runs, latter that night it was like a roundabout no waiting at all every time I came up to the line I was warming the tyres up like in the photo....1 hour of that shit and a heap of heat soak and..... BANG.
On my last freakin run off the night too.

You play you pay.......LOL

What times were you running?

Sick car with sick HP.

im sure i have a pic or two of this at lakeside a month or three back..

NUT347 wrote:What times were you running?

Sick car with sick HP.

At the start of this Winter just gone, I was a first timer at going to the drags....I did 2 PB's of 11.7.

The day I broke the input shaft I was getting low 12's and the humidity was at 70.

Towards the end of the night humidity came down a bit and I ran two 11.9's on street tyres.

Hehe...yeah the cars great.... its my daily drive, and I fvckin love it.

nstg8a wrote:im sure i have a pic or two of this at lakeside a month or three back..

Really?.....Fvckin whack 'em up mate,,,,(I mean my I have a look see please)

That may of been Fathers day at Lakeside, awesome day at the track.

come on, what are the details of the car mate?

any engine bay pics?

OK heres a mod list.

Custom Realdyno Performance 3 1/2" exhaust system
Hi-flow injectors,
Process West Intercooler Kit,
X3 Flash Tuner,
Throttle Body Relocation,
Intank Hi-flow Fuel Pump and a
Process West Cold Air Intake.
ZF Tune.

welcome stink


Yes input shafts are more seemingly common with a ZF Tune. Hear about it a fair bit as of late.

Nizpro have billet input shafts but are like $2k!

Not much to look at but heres an engine bay shot

Got some new BA Typhoon wheels last week so I can do a brake up grade to Brembos.

i saw this today at a car wash in maroochydore. i knew i recognized it...

i was in a green bf xr8 with vic number plates....

the car looks good.