Buy a car just for rear end? Yes or No
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Buy a car just for rear end? Yes or No
I have a chance to purchase a ragged out 86 firebird with a V6 for 200 bucks. The body is okay, the interior is kinda trashed, but it has the 3.42 rear end in it. Would I be crazy for buying the whole car and parting it out and swapping the rearend into my 85 T/A (with 3.08's), or should I just search the salvage yards for just the rear end for the same money? I think I could make the 200 up in parts by selling on eBay...what does everyone else think? I need input!! Thanks!!
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Yeah, I have an empty garage, but then my driver will have to live outside for a while until I get what I want and get the shell gone....which is scary, since this is tornado/hail season on the prairie! Oh well, I can always take out hail dents....
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maybe with any extra money I make off the parts, I could buy a Powertrax unit and make that 3.42 a locker! Yeah, that's what I really want...BOTH tires hooking up for a change! Yeah....
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Car: 1988 trans am
Engine: 5.7 gm H.O. crate engine
Transmission: 700r4
Originally posted by lasher_350
maybe with any extra money I make off the parts, I could buy a Powertrax unit and make that 3.42 a locker! Yeah, that's what I really want...BOTH tires hooking up for a change! Yeah....
maybe with any extra money I make off the parts, I could buy a Powertrax unit and make that 3.42 a locker! Yeah, that's what I really want...BOTH tires hooking up for a change! Yeah....
whats a locker? better than posi?
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A locker like I'm talking about locks both the axles together when you are going in a straight line. The Powertrax unit disengages when you are cornering, allowing the rear wheels to turn independently of each other and at variable speeds so you don't get wheel hop. Essentially, it's a posi, but it is mechanical instead of friction discs and clutches or cones. Plus, it doesn't require setting up the ring and pinion depths and such, it's a direct bolt in......sweet....
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