Race Day Damage - AGAIN!!!!

montynormand

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Will the carnage ever end? Snapped my custom made Aluminum shaft at the STARTING LINE of my heat race Sunday. MY God this little SR292 is full of Gremlins !!!!
 

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You used aluminum for the jack shaft and didnt expect this to happen?

Although I no longer have either of them I once owned both a SR292 and a 433. Never roundy rounded them, mostly set up for 500 to 1000' drags. Always ran the original 4 row sprockets, some times a three row chain. And with engagements of close to 6K most of the time we never had problem.

Although they were quite a bit heavier than a GPX or even an SRX they were the coolest looking sleds of there day! Once the SRX's and Ski-Doo sno pro'
s started dominating the mod class in the early eighty's it pretty much signalled the end of us free-air racers. But now that some of the circuits are offering "vintage" and "free-air" classes I wish I had still had them! I saw were there was a vintage roundy-round race at Houghton Lake, MI this past January, boy talk about bringing back some memory's and also a tear to my eye!

Back to the drawing board!
 
I'm telling you get a virgin to pee on it and your gremlin problem will be cured.
 
SR433...
yea the jackshaft was a gamble, but sometimes you gotta throw the dice and see how they land. I wanted to have a titanium one built, but the machinest required me to buy a 8 ft pice of the TI as he normally did not carry it. Think the rod would have cost me something like $400 - then what the heck would I do with 6ft of TI rod left over?
This little sr is a fun sled and I get alot of complements on it. Just dont have it dialed in yet!
 


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