Wavetrac differential
Burning Brakes
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Burning Brakes
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Drifting
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It eliminates the spiders, the c7 spiders are weaker than previous years partly because they increased the diameter of the cross pin. They break in half easy because of it. Smaller cross pin with bushings and hardened spiders will help a LOT. With 4-pinion spiders, this thread would never exist...
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This replaces the S/gears I just got RPM to build me a new rear end with wavetrac & 3:42 polished gears & 500 mil axles for this new set up.
Will be getting it in BG KY in 2 weeks at LS fest. Robert
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It eliminates the spiders, the c7 spiders are weaker than previous years partly because they increased the diameter of the cross pin. They break in half easy because of it. Smaller cross pin with bushings and hardened spiders will help a LOT. With 4-pinion spiders, this thread would never exist...
The four pinion set-up should have been standard. Thanks to instructions from Div7racer I was able to fix/upgrade mine. I have not had a chance to test it at the track yet.
C7 Z06 4-pinion set-up<br/>
The good thing is I can now send my old case and gears to rpm and build one with a wavetrac.
Drifting
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You won't need it, what you have will work just fine and is exactly what I am going to do. I spoke with div7 last year about this. Did you use the smaller diameter cross pin and use bushings? Also consider using hardened gears for all 4 spiders...
John
John
Last edited by JHEBERT; Aug 30, 2017 at 06:33 PM. Reason: I need that damn block and the 2 half pins with the radius!!!
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Burning Brakes
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The four pinion set-up should have been standard. Thanks to instructions from Div7racer I was able to fix/upgrade mine. I have not had a chance to test it at the track yet.
C7 Z06 4-pinion set-up<br/>
The good thing is I can now send my old case and gears to rpm and build one with a wavetrac.
Thanks
Last edited by black_c7; Aug 31, 2017 at 12:17 AM.
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How much did it cost u to do that ? Its looks like it can take some serious power with those 4 spider gears,is there any difference in the car at high speed like 180 mph? and did u do it your self ? If yes can you please provide some instructions of how u did it and where did u get the patts, etc
Thanks
Thanks
The expensive part was having to buy a new diff since both of my side gears sustained heavy damage. I would definitively suggest you do this before your unit breaks
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Burning Brakes
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Yes i did it myself with the help of a good friend, the parts and machine work was not very expensive. Thanks to the detailed instructions from fellow member div7racer, he deserves all the credit.
The expensive part was having to buy a new diff since both of my side gears sustained heavy damage. I would definitively suggest you do this before your unit breaks.
The expensive part was having to buy a new diff since both of my side gears sustained heavy damage. I would definitively suggest you do this before your unit breaks
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Yes i did it myself with the help of a good friend, the parts and machine work was not very expensive. Thanks to the detailed instructions from fellow member div7racer, he deserves all the credit.
The expensive part was having to buy a new diff since both of my side gears sustained heavy damage. I would definitively suggest you do this before your unit breaks.
The expensive part was having to buy a new diff since both of my side gears sustained heavy damage. I would definitively suggest you do this before your unit breaks
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Drifting
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Rich, what you prob hear is the ring and pinion, the spider gear upgrade is not going to remedy that. Upgrade your replacement diff, c7's have been known to leave bowling green with under-filled differentials.
John
John
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Ya I checked my fluid and it seems to be full, I just don't wanna replace it with a new unit and it happen to be again. I should be around 900whp next year so just looking to kill 2 birds with one stone. I can't seem to find any ring and pinion gears available anywhere.
Last edited by RichSobko; Sep 11, 2017 at 05:26 PM.
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see if you can massage quote before i call back on monday i'd appreciate you putting in the good word! you see what it's going under.
its already got the mph for 8.x just need to let it eat on the 60ft.
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