Differential mods for better traction

[CAP1]

Pirate's good for some entertainment now and then, although some of them apparently have too much free time.

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on top of that, that's actually a pretty crappy weld.

[Shuffler]

Ring welded to the pinion.......... to be exact.

[CAP1]

Ring welded to the pinion.......... to be exact.

still a crappy weld though. 

[Masherbrum]

still a crappy weld though. 

Because it was a joke.   

[CAP1]

Because it was a joke.   

i know.....but even so, if they're gonna picture their weld, they coulda made it pretty. 

BTW...i'm just foolin 'round too......


and thanks for help in that other thread too. i talked to him, and should have a kick arse system the end of this week. 

[Bronk]

ok, now THAT is funny.

if you really are doing anything though, don;t weld anything. go buy a detroit locker. if you have a ford, then get an 8.8" traction loc with 31 spline axles. it'll handle up to about 650 hp or so.

 tires........bg goodrich drag radials.


if you're not, then you can go ahead and laugh at me now.

 

After breaking multiple 7.5s on my 82 gt.... spider gears were welded. Never had another problem.... well burning off the inside tire on a tight corner is to some.

[CAP1]

After breaking multiple 7.5s on my 82 gt.... spider gears were welded. Never had another problem.... well burning off the inside tire on a tight corner is to some.

i did that with my 83. it was an LX with a 5.0L 5 speed. no real power to speak of. i added full length headers, true dual exhaust, took the motorcraft holly junk off, and put a real holley on.....didn't like the duraspark dist., so i pulled that, and used a dual point dist from a boss 302. she only ran 13.8's on a 3.23(i think) rear.

 pulled into the burnout box,heated the snot outta the tires, lined her up, staged...tree comin down, i bring her up to 3200 or so(anything higher, and tire roast).....last yellow, sidestep the clutch, firewall it, and BABOOM!! the car rolled about 15 feet, with a nice new hole in the diff cover.   

 i couldn't get an 8.8 back then, so i went to currie ent., and got a 9".

 never blew the 8.8 in my 89 though...and i was launching her at 6100 on drag radials.

[Bronk]

Cap check PM.

[stroker71]

1998 TransAm, runs in F-Stock.

I use to run a street prepared car.  I ran the Kuhmo v700's....very good tire but nothing beats the Hoosiers for glueing you to the road.  I now just play around with an 03 mustang gt and I run on street tires. 

[CAP1]

I use to run a street prepared car.  I ran the Kuhmo v700's....very good tire but nothing beats the Hoosiers for glueing you to the road.  I now just play around with an 03 mustang gt and I run on street tires. 

my 89 handled pretty well on eagle gt+4's.

[SectorNine50]

Oh my god... That is almost as good as the guy who came up with the new turbocharging system that didn't need a turbo...

He figured that since the exhaust ran the turbo that compressed the fresh air... that he could skip a step and just pipe the exhaust directly into the intake manifold.  Needless to say his drawings and posts drew an absolute uproar from the other users... I gotta find that website, it was too funny!

[eagl]

I use to run a street prepared car.  I ran the Kuhmo v700's....very good tire but nothing beats the Hoosiers for glueing you to the road.  I now just play around with an 03 mustang gt and I run on street tires. 

Yea, the Hoosiers are the stickiest.  They didn't have any DOT tires in my size the last time I looked, so none of the F-Stock guys ran Hoosiers if I recall correctly.  Once they bite the bullet and go into street prepared though, yea almost everyone ran hoosiers.

I'll probably just take my old tires to the next race and see what everyone else in F-Stock is running.  It's funny, but my car is still probably very competitive even after 11 years because there aren't any reasonably priced V-8 cars on the road that can compete with the last model F-bodies.  Even the newest mustangs still can't keep up unless they get special mods or are special editions, in which case they jump up in class and run with the corvettes and RX-7s.

[WWhiskey]

funny pic, i know some guys who would fall for that!


as for traction lincoln lockers always worked for me, anything from a 10 bolt right up to rockwells
but if it is going to see some street us as well as strip time, i think the best bet these days is arb, air or electric lockers, they are simple plenty strong enough, and easy on the tires when not engaged!