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vibration after holeshot today. need opinions #1911317
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Pulled a hard hole shot today, everything went good except when I left of the throttle I had a really bad vibration, I stopped the car, the vibration is going with the engine at engine speed. Couldnt go much over 2500 rpm and its very very noticeable, I still have good oil pressure. And babies it home for about 5 miles. I'm guessing the new B&M flex plate cracked??? I just put it in. Convertor isn't slipping any, this is behind a 440 pushing 500-530 hp. What is the absolute best flex plate I can buy to put in this. I'm guessing / hoping that's the issue so I'm gonna order a new one anyhow if that's not ny problem I can use the extra flex plate anyhow. So guys what are your thoughts about this.

Re: vibration after holeshot today. need opinions [Re: Mally69] #1911344
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Have you crawled under it to look for bad u-joints, cracked tailshaft housing or broken motor/transmission mounts? Lot's of things can break on launch. The B&M flex plate is a stout piece, I'd just start with good look around under the car.

Re: vibration after holeshot today. need opinions [Re: Mally69] #1911353
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so it vibrates with engine rpm? does it in park and neutral?


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Re: vibration after holeshot today. need opinions [Re: Mally69] #1911397
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Well never tried it in park only in neutral and drive. It vibrates when I'm setting still in neutral and even worse under slight load, it happened all of a sudden Right as I left off the throttle, I have all brand new engine and tranny mounts. Its Def. Between the crank flange and the tranny. Converter doenst slip any and shifts fine. Just bad vibration worse at 2500-3000 rpm

Re: vibration after holeshot today. need opinions [Re: Mally69] #1911428
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Sure it's not in the engine?

Re: vibration after holeshot today. need opinions [Re: Mally69] #1911452
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Check the vibration damper for missing rubber.

Re: vibration after holeshot today. need opinions [Re: Mally69] #1911457
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It could be in the engine, I won't rule that out totally yet I just re bearinged the bottom end rods and mains this past spring my oil pressure seems normal still , I figured if it was the main bearing vibrating I ( thought ) I would have lost oil pressure , I have a fluid dampner on it now for two years. ,

Re: vibration after holeshot today. need opinions [Re: Mally69] #1911479
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this might be way off but any possibility it dropped several cyls for whatever reason


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Re: vibration after holeshot today. need opinions [Re: Mally69] #1911510
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Bet you tore and engine mount. New or not that's the first thing Id check.


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Re: vibration after holeshot today. need opinions [Re: Mally69] #1911554
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Originally Posted By Mally69
Pulled a hard hole shot today, everything went good except when I left of the throttle I had a really bad vibration, I stopped the car, the vibration is going with the engine at engine speed. Couldnt go much over 2500 rpm and its very very noticeable, I still have good oil pressure. And babies it home for about 5 miles. I'm guessing the new B&M flex plate cracked??? I just put it in. Convertor isn't slipping any, this is behind a 440 pushing 500-530 hp. What is the absolute best flex plate I can buy to put in this. I'm guessing / hoping that's the issue so I'm gonna order a new one anyhow if that's not ny problem I can use the extra flex plate anyhow. So guys what are your thoughts about this.


My first thoughts are I hoped you looked at your car closely before even posting this on the internet to find out what is wrong.

Then my second thought is I would look at my car closely before I ordered any parts for it.

Can't you just look to see if the flex plate cracked?

It sounds like your motor is out of balance, like a weight flew off of the torque converter or flex plate? Make sure the front of the motor is good( balancer, pulleys). Then I'd pull all 8 plugs and look at them. Hopefully it's not in the motor, but sounds like it.

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If it were in the main bearings i would think id loose oil pressure I'm pretty sure. I have felt bad main bearings it has a deep thumpy vibration, that's kinda how this this, but my oil pressure is good. Is there any possibility that it could be in the converter? It doesn't seem to slip its a tci street fighter 3000-3500 but flashes to 3800 in my build

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Def pulling the tranny out today after looking a bunch of stuff over

Re: vibration after holeshot today. need opinions [Re: Mally69] #1911567
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How hard of a holeshot? Hard enough to over-rev and kiss a valve? As stated look over everything carefully, if nothing obvious jumps out at you maybe do a quick compression check. DAMHIK


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Re: vibration after holeshot today. need opinions [Re: Challenger 1] #1911575
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Originally Posted By Challenger 1
Originally Posted By Mally69
Pulled a hard hole shot today, everything went good except when I left of the throttle I had a really bad vibration, I stopped the car, the vibration is going with the engine at engine speed. Couldnt go much over 2500 rpm and its very very noticeable, I still have good oil pressure. And babies it home for about 5 miles. I'm guessing the new B&M flex plate cracked??? I just put it in. Convertor isn't slipping any, this is behind a 440 pushing 500-530 hp. What is the absolute best flex plate I can buy to put in this. I'm guessing / hoping that's the issue so I'm gonna order a new one anyhow if that's not ny problem I can use the extra flex plate anyhow. So guys what are your thoughts about this.


My first thoughts are I hoped you looked at your car closely before even posting this on the internet to find out what is wrong.

Then my second thought is I would look at my car closely before I ordered any parts for it.

Can't you just look to see if the flex plate cracked?

It sounds like your motor is out of balance, like a weight flew off of the torque converter or flex plate? Make sure the front of the motor is good( balancer, pulleys). Then I'd pull all 8 plugs and look at them. Hopefully it's not in the motor, but sounds like it.



I'm pretty sure I checked all possible easy fixes before posting this, also I posted this to see if anyone else may have had the same issues and could give me insight before I tear everything out. , and I've got so many diff projects going that ordering parts and having stuff on hand that I might not need right now is still going to be used reguardless

Re: vibration after holeshot today. need opinions [Re: Mally69] #1911581
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interesting topic/sorry for your misfortune. do post what it ends up being


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Re: vibration after holeshot today. need opinions [Re: Mally69] #1911595
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What damper?

Re: vibration after holeshot today. need opinions [Re: justinp61] #1911615
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Check fan blades, I would pull v/covers to check rockers and push rods. Try to determine if it's vibration or miss.

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The dampner been on it for two years, it's the chrome 440 source fluid dampner

Re: vibration after holeshot today. need opinions [Re: Shoozy] #1911685
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Originally Posted By Shoozy
if nothing obvious jumps out at you maybe do a quick compression check. DAMHIK


iagree

had a friend years ago that broke a connecting rod. The small end was still on the crank swinging around when it was running, yeah it vibrated a bit eek
A compression test will go along ways toward diagnosing the root cause.

Re: vibration after holeshot today. need opinions [Re: Mally69] #1911757
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I know it's a long shot, but I had something similar happen to me one time on one of my cars. Pulled hard and starting vibrating and not running right. It turned out a plug wire vibrated off the cap and I was running on 7.

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