He won't. . .
BUILD THREAD 86 GP 2+2~Blown 6.0
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He won't. . .
Spend the coin and skip the 9", go straight to the stronger, and superior Dana 60. Same price anyways for a bolt in unit as a 9"
$670 https://southsidemachineperformance.com/shop-1/ols/products/gbody88swap
$688 from Quicks
$100 JY Exploder 8.8 with 3.73 gears with disc brakes
$100 of welding wire and gas haha
< $1500
Ask Wraith how much fun it is to fabricate & install.
Ask me how much fun it is to drive 😉
😉
$688 from Quicks
$100 JY Exploder 8.8 with 3.73 gears with disc brakes
$100 of welding wire and gas haha
< $1500
Ask Wraith how much fun it is to fabricate & install.
Ask me how much fun it is to drive 😉
😉
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81cutlass I can't disagree with ^^^ despite the cheap side of me. A properly built Dana 60 with proper axles will last you a lifetime. My JY 8.8 giddyup with a spool is cheap, but it's not the 'forever plan' at 700-900hp imo.
Lol. Perhaps...
Best advice ever given. With 12 bolt ends set up for 9" outer bearings (c clip eliminator) and B body brakes so it's cheap to put brakes on it. Otherwise throw your money in the toilet and be happy about it.
I think there is good advice here, but with a stick the venerable 8.8 might not be enough. No matter how many low 9 second autos it'll live behind.
I see a Strange 9 in your future.
Or their S60.
I currently have their 9 with 35 spline. No run time yet.
Had the S60 in TransAm with 6 speed and loved it.
Sometimes you gotta pay the coin.
Or their S60.
I currently have their 9 with 35 spline. No run time yet.
Had the S60 in TransAm with 6 speed and loved it.
Sometimes you gotta pay the coin.
Yeah, I think most everyone is getting what I am, an 8.8 ford is maybe a bit stronger than the 8.5 GM but they are in the same ballpark.
The Strange D60 is a bit cheaper than the 9" actually and like mentioned you can get GM pattern ends and run B body/blazer/f body disks. Add $175 in this total to get a trutrac style diff vs. the clutch style but yeah.
Like I mentioned, I am going to put the 8.5 back in this car and see what my bank account looks like in the spring.
The Strange D60 is a bit cheaper than the 9" actually and like mentioned you can get GM pattern ends and run B body/blazer/f body disks. Add $175 in this total to get a trutrac style diff vs. the clutch style but yeah.
Like I mentioned, I am going to put the 8.5 back in this car and see what my bank account looks like in the spring.
Having a 9", and hindsight being 20/20 I would not do it again. The S60 carrier is bigger and allows more stout internals.
Just food for thought, all ford F350-F550's from like 2004 on up have a dana 60 front diff. (F250s are a toss up between the D60 to the super 50). If you wanted to junkyard or Rockauto you can save money. I've bought entire front axle housings from wrecked trucks for $400 up here.
Just food for thought, all ford F350-F550's from like 2004 on up have a dana 60 front diff. (F250s are a toss up between the D60 to the super 50). If you wanted to junkyard or Rockauto you can save money. I've bought entire front axle housings from wrecked trucks for $400 up here.
Late 90's e250 ford vans also got semi float D60's and they are CHEAP.. Plentiful & under $200.
The biggest pain is figuring out the upper control arm tabs. I can always build another bolt on UCA bracket like I have for my 8.5 but it's a bit of a plasma cutting, CAD & milling endeavor.
Strange does sell the bare G body housing. The issue is I throw away everything from the E250 D60 because I need 4.30 gears, a real posi, new axles.... So I end up just buying a bare $200 housing. And D60's need some special tools I don't own like the backlash adjust spanner, the case spreader, and the markup on the Strange copy of a trutrac, axles, & gears ends up being hardly any more to get a legit assembled D60 vs. building one myself.
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The S60 housing is $1000,
35 spline axle kit (and everything else from Quick) is $300
Gears $165
1350 yoke $70
TruTrac $775
Install kit is $400
Steel cover is $95
So it's $2800 to piece it together myself or $2675 assembled, painted from Strange. If I could build the UCA mount plate for under $200 I could save about $500, but that's a ton of labor.
And I am essentially never a 'farm out assembly or fab' kinda guy, but it oddly makes sense here.
The biggest pain is figuring out the upper control arm tabs. I can always build another bolt on UCA bracket like I have for my 8.5 but it's a bit of a plasma cutting, CAD & milling endeavor.
Strange does sell the bare G body housing. The issue is I throw away everything from the E250 D60 because I need 4.30 gears, a real posi, new axles.... So I end up just buying a bare $200 housing. And D60's need some special tools I don't own like the backlash adjust spanner, the case spreader, and the markup on the Strange copy of a trutrac, axles, & gears ends up being hardly any more to get a legit assembled D60 vs. building one myself.
The S60 housing is $1000,
35 spline axle kit (and everything else from Quick) is $300
Gears $165
1350 yoke $70
TruTrac $775
Install kit is $400
Steel cover is $95
So it's $2800 to piece it together myself or $2675 assembled, painted from Strange. If I could build the UCA mount plate for under $200 I could save about $500, but that's a ton of labor.
And I am essentially never a 'farm out assembly or fab' kinda guy, but it oddly makes sense here.
Lol, I miscommunicated a bit,I wasn't suggesting you retrofit it into the car, but finding a trackloc carrier with good gears might be easy in the junkyard or on Marketplace for a D60. The D60 tracloc is beefy enough for what you are doing and you could save a little on the initial hit.
