LPW Ultimate 7.5
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LPW Ultimate 7.5 Does anyone have any experience with the Ultimate 7.5 axle girdle and brace from LPW? It looks like a pretty good system and seems beefy but I want to know about some real world testing or some hardcore 60' times. I emailed the company but haven't heard anything back yet.
The ring and pinion in the 7.5 10 bolt is just too small, you can throw a lot of money at them and they still break. Automatics are easily on parts and the 10 bolt survives longer than they do behind a manual transmission. Bob
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The brace is dsigned to keep the axle tubes from flexing. The same thing can and has been done by welding the tubes to center section. It helps keepthe ring and pinion in good contact with one another, but you're still band-aiding a weak design. I thought about it a lot too several years ago. If I was going to go throug the time, effort and money I would just weld the tubes in. The system isn't a bad idea,but pretty elaborate and expensive for something that can never solve the real problem.
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With an 8.8 you are still going to want to run a rear diff cover with a brace and weld the axle tubes. We build a lot of 8.8 for Mustangs and it is the only way they survive in that chassis. The added torque arm of a F-body is a lot of stress in just the center of the housing this is what distorts the rear end and what happened to Elkyss with his three broken differentials.
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Thank you for the advice I will be sure to do that. I was thinking of eliminating that center torque arm and running the mini ladder bar set up. I have read a few good threads about it and it seems to work pretty slick.
Man I have not heard anyone mention the mini ladderbar set up by running the arms back to the lower control arms. I can tell you that you will hate it as it is extremely violent of a launch to the point I had customers do it and they said the rear end would bunny hop off the line.
That makes six this year just replacing their 8.8.