Midwest fab 9 installed
04-07-2009, 07:19 PM
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Midwest fab 9 installed Just finished installing and testing my midwest 9 inch. Big thanks to Eric at midwest -- this thing is beautiful. Brought my neighbor over who is a welder/fabricator by trade to check it out and even he was very impressed. We stood around having a beer just staring at the thing and all the beautiful welds.
Eric was great to deal with top notch customer service.
Rundown on order - 3.70 motive gears, spool, arp metric studs,rod ended LCA's. short torque arm , 4ch abs/tcs
Gears are nice and quiet but the rear does transmit a bit more noise into the cabin as would be expected with all rod ends and no poly or rubber mounts. also makes a racket on the potholed roads around here.
Will take some getting used to the spool. car feels like its trying to tear itself apart backing into my garage and on tight slow turns. at speed its ok. traction control is always lighting up on slow tight turns due to 1 tire slipping.
I would not recommend the spool for a street or street /ocasional strip car. My car is more strip/ ocasional street although I drive it 100 miles each way to the track.
The stock driveshaft with conversion ujoint is an inch and 3/8 ths further out of the trans. It works but I am not comfortable driving it like this and just ordered a cm driveshaft. I would not have wasted the time and money on the stock shaft if I had known it would be too short.
Cant wait to get it to the track and spin both tires for a change.
Eric was great to deal with top notch customer service.
Rundown on order - 3.70 motive gears, spool, arp metric studs,rod ended LCA's. short torque arm , 4ch abs/tcs
Gears are nice and quiet but the rear does transmit a bit more noise into the cabin as would be expected with all rod ends and no poly or rubber mounts. also makes a racket on the potholed roads around here.
Will take some getting used to the spool. car feels like its trying to tear itself apart backing into my garage and on tight slow turns. at speed its ok. traction control is always lighting up on slow tight turns due to 1 tire slipping.
I would not recommend the spool for a street or street /ocasional strip car. My car is more strip/ ocasional street although I drive it 100 miles each way to the track.
The stock driveshaft with conversion ujoint is an inch and 3/8 ths further out of the trans. It works but I am not comfortable driving it like this and just ordered a cm driveshaft. I would not have wasted the time and money on the stock shaft if I had known it would be too short.
Cant wait to get it to the track and spin both tires for a change.
04-07-2009, 09:38 PM
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Is the stock driveshaft being that much shorter happen on all cars does anyone know? I should be getting my rear end in the next week or two but I was planning on running the stock DS with the conversion U-joint for a little while too until I can afford the chromeoly one.
See you at the track sometime soon. 
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04-08-2009, 04:02 PM
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The stock ds had served me well with over 300 1/4 mile passes and 130,000 street thrashing miles without a problem. It was a chance I was willing to take it it would of fit better.
04-08-2009, 05:51 PM
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