Digging for info - front drum explosion on 727s

You don’t have to agree. I am just simply saying it’s one extra step I do not do for many reasons. I merely picked the converter as an example. You may not associate a converter sprag failure with a dry hop, but a poor burnout combined with a dry hop can very well kill a converter. I’ve spent hours upon hours talking on the phone with different converter manufacturers,
one in particular, Paul forte from turbo action. He explained to me doing a dry hop after a burnout is the same thing as pushing the trans brake button and flooring it, then taking your foot off the pedal without launching the car. Those two actions load the sprag in the converter but never unload the sprag by free wheeling the stator as you accelerate down the track. So it’s putting more force on the sprag, making it more prone to failure.

And if you have a 727 without the proper upgrades we talked about, now your putting that 727 at risk as well.

But again, if you feel a dry hop is necessary and haven’t had any issues with it, then have at it. Just simply explaining my thought process is all.