I say we call in Mythbusters to test out our theories!!
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Originally Posted by 2010 SS RS
Its not like it siezed up and locked. When an output shaft breaks it is clean like a broke glass rod. Then everything still works including the transmission but there is no power out of it to the driveshaft. A hard launch transfers much more shock back thru the system than when the output shaft breaks. I know you somehow want to pin this back on the shaft failure but it just holds no water or logic. Go bust your output shaft and tell me how violent of a shock it is to your engine... It just is not. just sayin.
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I don't think he was saying it siezed up when the output shaft broke. Quite the opposite. The point that the output-shaft-snap-started-it camp is getting at is that the engine had some load on it when the ouput shaft snapped, thus causing a sudden spike in RPM without a load. - picture cutting a rubber band when stretched between your two fingers vs. cutting same rubber band when it is sitting in your hand. the stored energy in the streched rubber band has to go somewhere, just like the extra engery in the motor. Weather the rev limiter would have stopped the spike, that is unknown to me at this point... but i am assuming that the rev limiter was moved/removed along with the shift points.