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posted by Coupe5oh
Snoreman....not the case in my area, i know a guy with a 99 m6 that has his 6spd popping outta gear, and grinding, his car goes low 12's with cam, 373gears, minor boltons, cuttouts, and e.t.streets. he recently destroyed his rear too, but i know of a guy that has a 10sec s-trimmed f-bod a4, that broke his rearend months after he had been running it, now it has a 12bolt.

There are exceptions to every rule. I've run my stock T5 behind a 150 shot for ~2 years and behind a ~400rwhp blown KB combo since May '99 and only recently started having problems. I know guys making 225rwhp and breaking T5's every other trip to the track. There are many LS1 guys running 10's on the stock rear...they just get good at rebuilding it...often. ;) The T56's seem to have a penchant for eating syncros, but take quite a bit of abuse.
IMO, the A4 is preferable in the LS1 cars if you want to have a street/strip brawler. My buddy just went 11.9@113mph yesterday in a '99 Formula with (get this) a JP cam, pulleys, cutout, de-screened MAF and a convertor (I think a 2600 stall). No headers, no head work, nothing else, full weight (without a back seat)...pretty impressive. The A4's are tough trannies, and a head/cam car paired with the right stall and gearing will be a very dangerous combo.
I may very well put an LS1 in my garage after I pay off my Tahoe next year. I've been close to buying one a few times in the last few years, but decided that I needed to have a more practical daily driver (I've got a '99 DOHC Taurus).
S.

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Originally posted by Snorman
There are exceptions to every rule. I've run my stock T5 behind a 150 shot for ~2 years and behind a ~400rwhp blown KB combo since May '99 and only recently started having problems. I know guys making 225rwhp and breaking T5's every other trip to the track. There are many LS1 guys running 10's on the stock rear...they just get good at rebuilding it...often. ;) The T56's seem to have a penchant for eating syncros, but take quite a bit of abuse.
IMO, the A4 is preferable in the LS1 cars if you want to have a street/strip brawler. My buddy just went 11.9@113mph yesterday in a '99 Formula with (get this) a JP cam, pulleys, cutout, de-screened MAF and a convertor (I think a 2600 stall). No headers, no head work, nothing else, full weight (without a back seat)...pretty impressive. The A4's are tough trannies, and a head/cam car paired with the right stall and gearing will be a very dangerous combo.
I may very well put an LS1 in my garage after I pay off my Tahoe next year. I've been close to buying one a few times in the last few years, but decided that I needed to have a more practical daily driver (I've got a '99 DOHC Taurus).
S. [/B]

Damn I am so out of touch....With this sh!tty air here where I live I am use to seeing LS1's run 13.9-14.1 and new GT's run 14.5-14.8...

I would love to see what my car would run at sea level.