From N To D?

what do you think? since you already don't do it, it sounds like you've pretty much answered the question yourself.

yes, its bad. for the trans., the motor, the mounts...

Yeah, it's pretty rough on the transmission. I asked a tranny tech which is worse; torque braking or neutral bombs, and he said neither was good for the transmission, but the neutral bombs are harder on the trans. He said all torque braking does is heat up the fluid in the torque converter really quick, but neutral bombs slam everything.

I did it to a C4 tranny once. Shattered the front pump into a few pieces.

Imagine this. You're spinning a bike wheel on it's axis at a high speed. Then you shove a stick thru the spokes as the wheel is still turning at a high speed. You're still holding on to the stick as you shove it thru the spoke. Imagine what all that force is gonna do. It could break the stick, damage your arm, damage the spokes, force the wheel to spin out of control, do nothing, or cause some damage to nearby objects. That's exactly what a neutral bomb does. You're playing Russian Roulette. I would recommend the brake torque because you can cool tranny fluid easily with a cooler, but replacing the whole tranny is costly.

While it's never good for any drivetrain, some can be toughened up to take it *much* better than others.

Your Bull would not be happy and would probably protest *much* sooner than his Chevy. If he knows much about cars, he may actually know this and not be that much of a friend. What's he driving? That will make a difference too.

I don't know much about FWDs, and Fords in particularly, but the weakest link in a RWD car tends to be the rear axle. It's not that tough to blow a differential, and it's the last part a lot of people beef up.

The Taurus drivetrain doesn't inspire me to think "bullet proof" by any means.

And I agree NBs are worse than "power stalls".

I don't do either.

thats how i blew myne the 2nd time. reverse 40mph, drop to 1st. hit ebrake. cool burnout. but 4 times ina row for a car sho kills it. i found out the hard way. now i am doing a auto to manual conversion