Need help with rear ends ..
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Need help with rear ends .. And not my **** <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="gr_stretch.gif" /> Is there anything else out there besides a 12bolt ? They are so heavy.
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Re: Need help with rear ends .. You can go with a Ford 9", but its even heavier.
You could attempt to do a Chevrolet 8.5" swap, but it'd take a lot of fabricating probably. A stock Ford 8.8 rear out of a Mustang is too narrow, if you could find one out of a pickup and it was wider, and then do the fabricating work, you'd have a pretty strong rear IMO. If you choose to have something made, you're going to have to find some way to get a torque arm to work with it, or switch to like SouthSide Machine Lift bars. FWIW we've never seen a GM 8.5 or Ford 8.8 rear swap, but a lot of people have kicked around the idea.
You could beef up your stock rear with a better posi, stronger axles, pinion support, and gussets on the axle tubes. Even with all that work, you're basically polishing a turd <img border="0" title="" alt="[Sad]" src="gr_sad.gif" />
Best bet, and more or less a bolt-in, is a commercially available 12 bolt or Ford 9" from one of our sponsers.
J.
You could attempt to do a Chevrolet 8.5" swap, but it'd take a lot of fabricating probably. A stock Ford 8.8 rear out of a Mustang is too narrow, if you could find one out of a pickup and it was wider, and then do the fabricating work, you'd have a pretty strong rear IMO. If you choose to have something made, you're going to have to find some way to get a torque arm to work with it, or switch to like SouthSide Machine Lift bars. FWIW we've never seen a GM 8.5 or Ford 8.8 rear swap, but a lot of people have kicked around the idea.
You could beef up your stock rear with a better posi, stronger axles, pinion support, and gussets on the axle tubes. Even with all that work, you're basically polishing a turd <img border="0" title="" alt="[Sad]" src="gr_sad.gif" />
Best bet, and more or less a bolt-in, is a commercially available 12 bolt or Ford 9" from one of our sponsers.
J.
Re: Need help with rear ends .. Only about 30 lbs gain with the Strange.
Add chromoly control arms and panhard.. you will have gain most of that back.
<small>[ May 05, 2002, 09:18 AM: Message edited by: WILWAXU ]</small>
Add chromoly control arms and panhard.. you will have gain most of that back.
<small>[ May 05, 2002, 09:18 AM: Message edited by: WILWAXU ]</small>
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rear ends well man afraid to say it but there is always a ford 9". You can get housings a lot cheaper than a 12 bolt and you can pic up center sections for them relatively cheap on ebay or check other forums. Me myself I'm going 9" in my 3rd gen. I can basically get a rear end completely done for about 1,200 - 1,500. not to mention the fact that they are stronger than the 12 bolt rears.
GM vs Ford it your choice
GM vs Ford it your choice
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