Best transmission

[Bowtiepwr]

Just wondering what everyone was running and why they are running it. Many people run Brinn, Falcon and many others.

[nlms00]

i run a brinn and like it.had a bert and could not stand the squelling.plus they could get caught between gears.jmo

[Chris Steele]

I run a ball-spline Bert, no special reason, but I like it. My last 3 have been Berts and never squelled. Had a Brinn back in the mid-90's and liked it too.

[pms]

We run a Falcon. It has some nice design advantages.

[bizkit]

I used to run bert ball splines, but there has been too many racers that I know have there elbows destroyed when they broke a drive shaft. Myself I got hit in the kidneys once when mine broke, pisssed blood for 3 days. But the ball spline felt so much better than the brinn. Now I got a falcon, I'm not as worried about the drive shaft getting n the car with me and it feels like the ball spline through the center of the corner. My vote goes to Falcon, I really don't like Falcons hub desgin but its just safer than the ball spline and feels the same

[pinionangle]

I've got two Brinns and i've had them since the stone ages. The best money i've ever spent. I'd like a Ball spline Bert but im affraid of it. And after hearing Biz talk NOW im really affraid of it.

Biz if you would have had a Carbon Fiber shaft would you have been hurt? Or did the slip yoke come out?

[Dirt Racer X]

Speaking of Bert ball splines, we had a bad vibration in one of our cars earlier this year that we chased for several weeks. We found a cracked driveshaft (carbon fiber - cracked at the weld on one of the yokes), a bad rotor, and a chewed up pinion gear. Each time, we thought we had found the source of the vibration.

The problem was solved after I disassembled the ball spline and put it back together with the best of the parts we had on hand. The ball retaining ring was quite worn, causing the shaft to be sloppy, so I replaced it with one from another Bert that was down due to a broken gear. Vibration eliminated!

Lesson learned - keep those ball splines greased and properly maintained!

[bizkit]

I've got two Brinns and i've had them since the stone ages. The best money i've ever spent. I'd like a Ball spline Bert but im affraid of it. And after hearing Biz talk NOW im really affraid of it.

Biz if you would have had a Carbon Fiber shaft would you have been hurt? Or did the slip yoke come out?

Naw I don't think I would've gotten hurt are the other guys I mentioned would have either. Although I've gotten away from the ball splines (still partial owner in one) I'm still getting a carbon fiber shaft next season...Man you should see the surgery scars from one of my friends elbows, he also lost part of his elbow socket, so he want ever have full strength or movement again, and he is only 26 years old....

In my opinion ball spline is the best out there, but dangerous (maybe not so much with a carbon fiber drive shaft) 2nd best tranny I've ran as far as how the car feels, is the falcon, mush smoother in transition when the car hikes and settles than the brinn..But Bloomer uses a brinn and who am I to argue with his success

[racer68]

You guys should look up Jeremy Clements. I almost had his right arm ripped off. He is the son of Tony Clements that builds LM motors in SC. He is better now and I see back to running ARCA. Here is part of the info. More on the site. http://www.jeremyclementsracing.com/

On that day, the #51 Clements team traveled to 311 Speedway in North Carolina for a dirt race like countless others they compete in each year. While on the track, a bizarre incident took place that would rewrite Jeremy's destiny. A part malfunction caused the steel driveshaft to break loose and pierce through the cockpit of Jeremy's car tearing through his right hand. Jeremy was rushed to nearby Wake-Forest Baptist hospital for emergency surgery. The outlook was grave as he had lost a significant amount of blood and there was extensive damage to the blood supply, tendons, bones and tissue in his hand as well as fractures to his arm and wrist. Over the next few weeks, Jeremy went through multiple operations, a bout of pneumonia and excruciating pain but with the support of his family, he pulled through and amazed the medical staff with his unexplained progress.


One year has since passed. The young man with steely determination and a leadfoot underwent ten-plus operations, hundreds of hours of intensive physical therapy and an emotional nightmare but he's back on track! Thanks to unwavering faith, determination to drive, very supportive friends and family, Jeremy is ready to race. His hand is still improving but he is continuing his physical therapy on the fast track and returned behind the wheel of his dirt late model only 13 days after doctors cleared him to race. He completed a successful test just turning laps at Thunder Valley Speedway on July 9th -50 weeks from the day that everything looked so bleak.

[Rooster7]

Were all the injuries with the ballspline or regular berts also?

[Chris Steele]

All the ones mentioned above were probably with ball splines, but it can happen with any of them, just ask Jack Pennington. His leg was injured years ago before ball splines were invented. I know the ball splines are WAY more dangerous, but anything can happen.

[grunt4]

*Were all the injuries with the ballspline or regular berts also?
My first driveshaft I lost nearly toe my arm off. After that incident I wont race without an extra loop on the 5th arm and 1/8 " aluminum pit. I have tested the two loops, you know s**t happens twice since with no injuries. My arm I'm sure looks like Bizkits friend. Brinn tranny. Carbon fibre is in my future also.