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Originally Posted by geberhard
Pretty heavy pig, but as people have been putting dana 60's, not that far off. You can shave some weight of the 14 bolt as well aorund the housing and I woudl recommend welding he center of the tubes (I spun a 14 bolt breaking the rosetta welds, not fun).
The 60 will give you more options hub wise, but you will ned to shorten the housing, and then go full custom. On a budget, you could go with a C+C (cab and chassis) about 63". You can modify the hub, I will try digging for the company but they sell the already modified 5 lug setup (I think the smallest is 5X5).
Good luck!
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The difference between a floater 8-lug Dana 60 and a Dana 60 from a '70 Hemi 'cuda is over 100 pounds. The tubes are far thicker their entire length for the 8-lug FF. And that's just not necessary for a thousand horse 4000# car, no matter what the tires.
Cut the ends off a floater 60, weld them to a Ford 8.8. It'll hold up to 1500 HP, you can get them with 3" or 3.25" tubes depending on what you get it from, and getting both a FF 60 and an 8.8 of your choice will be under $ 300 from any decent salvage yard.
Also, not much choice of traction diffs for the 14-bolt. Not even the Ford 9" has more choices than the 8.8.