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Originally Posted by CSG Mike
My last transmission failed on the 27th of december, 2020, on the 1st lap of the 2nd session of the day on a rather cold day!
I'd correlate the typical transmission failure more to tire grip and shock loading, rather than heat.
While this is highly anecdotal, I had just swapped in a stock torsen diff recently, due to selling my ATS LSD. My Drexler wasn't ready to put in yet. The track in question has rather large, painted berms, and my AIM data shows a lot of one tire fire when I get on the berms at WOT. This is the same type of load that shredded my OEM axles.
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That makes sense too - I didn't think about tires. I bet we see a lot of failures in drag racing where we see high grip tires + shock/wheel hop. Temperature failure I would think would more of a long term thing than a sudden heat event right before failure. Just speculation though - as Irace mentioned it would be nice to have some temperature metrics on your setup compared to a normal car. Maybe a blackstone analysis over time too?