Just went through your whole thread this past week; couldn't stop. Best documentation and quantity of mods I've seen. Proof positive of what Ron says in his suspension threads, for sure! Car looks fantastic in the latest vids. Good to hear you're in the new place, too.
Are you keeping the tapered roller bearings in the rear axle? Are new axles required to do these? My 9" has Currie axles and I plan on putting different housing ends (has small Mustang ends on it now) to more easily accommodate bigger bearings and newer style brakes, but may go the full floater route. In the pics I saw the taper bearing isn't sealed on the inside, so I assume you don't use the internal axle seals with them? As for the locker, my best friend from high school and his little brother had Shelby's, a '69 GT-500 and a '68 GT-350 repectively, and both had Detroits and we never had a push problem in autoX. Noisy sometimes and you had to be careful on wet roads, but never had a maintenance problem. I rebuilt the Eaton posi in my Chevelle 3 times in 2.5 years.
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2002 S-10, Daily Driver and autoX
1966 Chevelle MALIBU ( mine since 1971) Drag car converting to a track car!
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