I mainly had trouble with these statements:
"As long as you do not hook up your tires in third gear under full power and/or do not have a relatively robust engine you are not likely to have a problem. On the other hand if you nave a relatively robust engine and you also hook up in third you are in a dance with the devil. It is unlikely (but not impossible) to break it on the first attempt however repeated WOT third gear operation with the tires hooked will kill it."
"This is a royal PITA when everything goes right. When things go bump in the dark it'll blow you mind and your patience. This is something Tremec has known about for a decade (maybe more) and chosen to do absolutely nothing about!"
"While it is not an absolute that you will get shot every time you play Russian Roulette, it is true that the more often you play the more likely you are to get shot, again sort of a similar phenomena here. I think the number of Cobra's who can load their third gear, gears to their breaking threshold is relatively small, more because of the car weight and the spectacular experience available in car at WOT in third gear. That however does not mean that they will not fail. Importantly if and when they do fail the attendant gear tooth shrapnel is capable of expanding the scope of the failure if it gets into other gear sets inside the transmission."
Those statements infer that:
1. Any car with a TKO 600, a handful of horsepower, and good traction will most likely shatter 3rd gear.
Of course that's not true. I forgot to mention the '69 Mustang that belongs to a customer of mine with a 529 inch Boss headed big block...740 hp and 700 lb-ft of torque. No issues.
2. There are instances throughout the world of TKO 600's breaking 3rd gears and clustershafts because of a 'known' manufacturing defects and they choose to simply not do anything about it.
Of course that's not true either. If I were a multi-million dollar company making 1000's of transmissions at a time, I most likely wouldn't do a re-design, tooling change, etc., for just ONE instance of a failure.
3. Using a TKO 600 is just like rolling the dice everyday...
There were many insinuations in your posts Ed that were based on ONE known failure and, honestly, just a lot of your own opinions.
Thousands upon thousands of people read these posts and there's just no reason for misinformation to be passed around.
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