my grocery getter (turbo 2005 s2k)
Originally Posted by Digger70chall
how would you compare the two? do you think adding 2psi is less stressful on the engine than 2000RPM? there is a formula floating around, of course i can't remember it but it's something to the effect that as your RPM's increase the stress increases exponentially? bah math sucks anyways
Originally Posted by spic
I believe it's squared - so 8k rpm's would put 64x the stress of 1k rpm on your engine.
that does sound familiar and more reasonable...i knew i dropped outta college for a reason
Originally Posted by dave22
The tranny can withstand a lot more abuse than the diff, but it WILL fail if you feed it enough power 

what can be done to it (short of replacing it) to beef it up?
cryo treating the gearset maybe?
I know of a couple that were cryo-treated but those guys were relatively easy on their cars anyway, so who knows if it helped. Other than that I don't know what else can be done. Most people concentrating on the diff and axles. When the guys making the big power start going through trannies, some better solutions will become available







