has anyone used the jegster torque arm, part number 550-40097? instead of mounting to the tail of the tranny, the mount is part of a plate that bolts to the floor boards and trans tunnel. looks nice for adjustments and tranny swaps, but i'm not sure that i like it bolting to the floor pans. any knowledge or experience would be helpful, thanks

 

welcome to TGO!

I personally have not tried one of these. I've seen it and I've seen several posts about them from people running it.

- hit the search key before you post. Many questions have been covered before, so you'll find more info searching than posting.

 

I put one in my car. Nothing to worry about with the floor pan mount. The plate is thick and heavy, bent to fit in the driveshaft tunnel, and bolts to floor pan with 14 3/8" bolts.

IMO rather than hurting anything it will make the floor stronger at that point.

With mine I'm hooking great, and even pulling the front wheels off the track a few inchs.

Here's a link to my webshot's album with the jegs TQ arm install...
Webshots - Images of Jeg's torque arm, Air 'drag' bags, and other

 

If it was me i would put BMR trak pak on thats what i put in my car and in a couple days shagwell will tell you how good it works if you go up a couple of posts theres a guy talking about it also look at their website it mounts on its own crossmember good luck hope it helps Daniel

 

I myself looked at the trak pak. I liked the lenght of the arm and it's own crossmember.. But on my car I felt like the crossmember would cause clearance probs with exhaust and thats one of the biggest reasons why I didn't go with the trak pak.

Theres no way my true duals would have fit with that BMR unit's crossmember

 

ya i understand where your coming from. it has a spot but for only one exhaust pipe see im going to be running my own homebuilt y pipe with long tubes. so im not worried about it. how does the jegs one work good? Later Daniel

 

thanks for the info guys. havent had a chance to check out the track pak yet, what kinda cost is there? also, how much torque will these things take? im putting a pretty hard hitting big block in the car, but i dont want to back half it. thanks

 

Daniel.... I'm real happy with the jegs unit. As you know there's no 1 wonder part out there, but the torque arm was my last pc. of the puzzel.

I went from 1.70's 60' times and spinning the 275/60-15 Nittos a slight amount to 1.50's 60' times and dead hooking, lifting the front hoops a few inchs off the track after I put on the jegs arm.

Trans1973... Price wise all of the aftermarket arms runs around the same amount.

 

As far as cost (& a basic description), you can check out this link (you'll need to scroll down just a bit).

I can't give you actual numbers about how much punishment the Trak Pak will take, but can tell you that I have one sitting in my garage right now - and I'd be really surprised if it would even NOTICE anything less than 400 ft/lbs...

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EDIT: I knew I'd seen a blurb somewhere that talked about how the Trak Pak is a fairly stout piece, so I went looking, & finally found it in a description of BMR's "regular" torque arm...

 

BMR has a thing saying that their torgue arms have pulled 1.12 60' times they hold all the records for the fastest 60' times im pretty sure if you break it they will give you another one and they will mount that on the wall! good luck in my opinion the pics doesnt do it justice its a stout piece. i cant wait to hammer on it good luck Later Daniel

 

Still on the same nittos?

 

83 crossfire... Yeah still on the same set of Nitto's. The 60' times I quoted was one weekend vs. the very next weekend. Only change was the Jegster torque arm, and the air lift drag bags.. Track & weather cond. was pretty close to the same. 2* diff in air temp.

I bought the Nitto's back last fall/winter. They are starting to show a good bit of wear now, but seemed like after they started wearing they hooked better.

At the track I found 17 psi air pressure to work the best.. Then around town use I run 24 psi, and if I'm going on a long drive or trip I pump em' up to 28 psi.

 

Huh, I’m actually pretty impressed by that… I’ve seen some good times out of lower profile nittos (like the 275/40/17’s on my ws6) but haven’t seen anyone run them in more straight line oriented sizes… I suspected that they might work pretty well like that but didn’t have any real proof. How do they handle on the street? I ran 15-18 at the track with the 275/40’s to run my best times there and with around 32psi on the street got about 22K miles out of a set (would have been more, they were pretty worn but still working OK and _looked_ like they had tread, but one of them got a cut right on the side of the tread so I swapped them out)

 

83 crossfire.. Yeah they work real good for me. I wanted a sticky tire that could hook, but wanted something that I could drive on daily. After alot of research the Nitto's looked to be the right tire for me. Glad I went with them for sure.

Truthfully the handling is great. Very little diff in feel from my old yoko avid ST 255/60-15 around town. After long trips and alot of heat in them the handling does suffer some though.

Around town, 100 mile trips, etc they are great, but I took a trip from GA. to Mississippi, drove 350 miles non stop (other than for fuel) at 75-115 mph and around 300 miles I could feel the rear wanting to slide a tad.

 

Homemade motorsports tq arm, lca's, relocates, frame rails, etc.
1.66 60fts on the nitto 315/35/17's -
- Night rider327 - what's your car combo?(engine, trans, gear, suspension, etc) Obviously the jegster tq arm, but other escentials....Seems like a pretty stout street car, just gathering some info for tq arm length vs combo.......