Digging for info - front drum explosion on 727s

Great discussion going on. Here is what I got so far.

- Any 727 can grenade the front drum
- A drag car should start the burnout in 2nd (manual valve body)
- No dry hops (I'm not on board with this, it is just like a launch and confirms that you can do a 100% launch)
- Launch a car in 1st (Low/Reverse band applied)
- Don't lift and get back into the throttle while in 1st (this would be hard to overcome, this is an instinct for a gearhead)
- Use a valvebody that applies the Low/Reverse band in 1st
- Wrap that rascal

So if the sprag is the problem and isn't being used in 1st, can the transmission be run without the sprag when running a manual valve body?

The only danger comes into affect is when the Low/Reverse band doesn't get applied when in first.