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Re: Rear Ends

To: "Dick J" <lsr_man@yahoo.com>, <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Rear Ends
From: "John Beckett" <landspeedracer@email.msn.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 19:13:55 -0500
Don't forget a good set of C-clip eliminators is about $150.00.

JB
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dick J" <lsr_man@yahoo.com>
To: <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 3:40 PM
Subject: Rear Ends


> I know it aint the rear end of choice, but has
> anybody ever set up a Chev 10 bolt?  Is all the
> ring and pinion play adjusted with removable
> shims, or is there an adjustment nut of some
> kind?  Like I said, I know it's not the rear end
> of choice, but I've got one sitting right there
> under the workbench and it contains exactly the
> ratio I want, and will easily handle all of the
> horsepower I'll ever dream of making.  Since my
> car already has a 10 bolt in it, it would sure be
> a lot simpler and cheaper to put some C-clip
> eliminators on it and use it.  I know that they
> aren't the greatest way to go either, but I could
> put that rear end under my car for way less than
> half what it would cost me to change to a Ford
> 9".  I mean, it's a direct bolt in.  If I switch
> to the Ford, there are all those nickel and dime
> pieces like new spring perches, changing either
> the driveshaft or moving the rear end slightly to
> make up for the different pinion offset, new
> shocks, etc, etc.  (To some guys, that's just
> part of racing, but I still have a co-driver
> whose going to be wanting to go to college in
> three more years!  Know what I mean?  I been
> there, done that, and gave up the shirt three
> times already.  This one's the fourth and last
> but it still has to be done!)  If I can adjust a
> little pinion play out of the 10 bolt that I
> have, I can drop it right in and spend my money
> racing instead of fixin.
>
>
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