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Well, I've come to the conclusion that since I've run down and back to Phx, at 4-5500 rpm, nothing is going to happen. The clutch still has the same amount of grip, and nothing feels weird. Maybe if you broke it in, you'll get another 10,000 miles out of it, but I could care less. I'm hard on the clutch. Always will be unless I have a three speed gear box with enough hp to make first 0-60, second 60-120, and third 120-180. And even then, I'll still probably whack it into gear so as not to loose a nanosecond of time between shifts.
You could actually do that providing you had an electric motor to the drive wheels, with a diesel engine (preferably Cummins) powering a generator. It's less efficient in actual mechanical systems, but the way you utilize the hp gives you substantial benefits. i.e. the flat torque curve of an electric motor, which would allow constant pulling if you built it to work with everything.
Funny enough, a guy that used to live above us in Idaho raced Chevy's in his teenage days. (50's) He had a regular transmission that he filed every other gear tooth off on. He would schedule his drags with three hours before it, and took out his regular "street" tranny, and put in his modified one. This allowed him to literally hit the stick into gear, thus being faster or as fast as autos, with a higher top end, and a stronger tranny, even with the gear filing.
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