Solid Axle C-2
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From: St. Charles Mo.
Solid Axle C-2
Time for my yearly post
When I was in high school there was a shop, I use the term loosely, that would remove the weak "rubber axle" from your Corvette and replace it with a 12 bolt for a price. Just wondering how wide spread this practice was and if anyone still has this setup?
When I was in high school there was a shop, I use the term loosely, that would remove the weak "rubber axle" from your Corvette and replace it with a 12 bolt for a price. Just wondering how wide spread this practice was and if anyone still has this setup?
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Any serious drag set-up needed a more beefy rear. Half-shafts were the biggest problem with stock rears. Most of the real heavy hitters used Dana 60 rears which were stronger than the 12-bolt rears (the 12-bolt were stronger than the stock units)
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I've got a 64 (old drag car)that someone from the midweast installed a 12 Bolt straight axle in (60's era Olds/Pontiac 391 Posi) . Getting ready to pull it out and put an IRS back in. Don't know any history on the car.
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I do. I bought the car with an old olds/pontiac rear in it. 4:11 and 4:53 I believe, gears available for it, so I had Strange Engineering make me a, (oh boy, here we go) Ford 9". 3:50, pretty bulletproof rear. 62 rear leafs. Does that make my car a Fordette?
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Whatcha gonna do with the straight axle setup? Shoot me an I/M if you're interested in selling the whole mess. I have a buddy wanting to do something like that maybe.
Or maybe you and he can work out a trade?
JIM
Or maybe you and he can work out a trade?
JIM
Drifting
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From: Wi
Originally Posted by 427Hotrod
Whatcha gonna do with the straight axle setup? Shoot me an I/M if you're interested in selling the whole mess. I have a buddy wanting to do something like that maybe.
Or maybe you and he can work out a trade?
JIM
Or maybe you and he can work out a trade?
JIM
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