7.5

[4cfed]

what can ido with this rear end? the one wheel wonder wont put the power down it just smokes one tire into second gear!! i figure 373 gears will serve my prepose a few people sugjested puttin the 373s in and welding the diff..but it will turn like hell in the rain or...witch is not abig deal to me but also this wil wear the rear end out faster??????? or is there a other option to stil use the 7.5? mini spool? im not going to go hog wild on power right now just the modds mentioned in my other post... :feedbacK:

[WICKED]

Yes there is a mini spool for the 7.5 " rear but if you are planning on using slicks, the 7.5 will not last through one high RPM launch.

If you keep street tires on it, the 7.5 with a mini spool will last for awhile, but have some e axles at all times..

[badass88gt]

Yank it out and pick up an 8.8.

If its a street car, dont weld the rear or run a spool. I assume its a 4 speed car? Go 4.10s and dont look back!

[1SLO5.0]

A 7.5 will last plenty long, behind a fair amount of horsepower. They use the same axles as the 8.8 rears. If you weld the spiders or run a spool, you are asking for trouble. You will break axles turning on the street. Try to find an 80s ranger in a salvage yard. Rangers are good donors for 7.5 parts. I picked up a set of 3.73s and a traction lock for my 85 Mustang out of a Ranger years ago from American Auto Salvage. I wouldn't buy and 8.8 right now unless you come across something cheap. Just put that money towards making some horsepower and upgrade the rear end when you make enough horsepower to worry about breaking it.

[4cfed]

well i have a 86 ranger sittin at kris's that use to do 5 gear posi's.... but got the truck running this year and wil only do 1 gear one wheel wonders im planing on running cheater slicks or drag radials hel even some good stree tires.... im planin on 373's because its a 3 speed auto..i think my ranger has 4:10s in it i cant reember wtf is in it... but ether way i need to do something this one wheel crap sucks i can take off under anthing more than half throttle one tire says bye bye to tread

[jdsgallops]

What Darrell said.

[NEW BUILD]

If you weld the spiders or run a spool, you are asking for trouble. You will break axles turning on the street. I wouldn't buy and 8.8 right now unless you come across something cheap. Just put that money towards making some horsepower and upgrade the rear end when you make enough horsepower to worry about breaking it.
SPOOLS =broken parts on street I second THAT.Yellow bomb had 7.5 and spool till axle BROKE in three places.Then upgraded to 8.5 out of GN. 7.5 lasted 3 years and many :spinem:

[4cfed]

ok so locker and 373s?

[badass88gt]

I say 410 if its a stick.

[4cfed]

its a 3 speed auto.. hell id run 4:10s any ways but it would be god awfull on gas and noice cruisin the highway and thats prolly more rpms than iwant to spin at the top end of the track to

[1SLO5.0]

Sounds like you need to decide if you want a toy or a fuel efficient vehicle. If fuel economy is what you want, buy a civic. Otherwise put 4.10s in and be done with it.

[4cfed]

ok 4:10 and highway driving obnoxuis with straight pipes? im thinkin so....
im going for toy/daily driver

[badass88gt]

Get a nice sounding cat back on it with an off road H pipe and headers, it'll sound sweet. Straight pipes will sound like ass IMO.

[4cfed]

i was planning on runing stock gt headers no cats or mufflers out the back..or end up throwing some dyno max straight threws on it

[1badtgp]

Badass is right, put a real exhaust on the car and do it right for a change. I would also throw one of your other many cars back together as a daily dirver and focus time on the Mustang. Speaking from experience, you are farther ahead with one good daily driver, slow or not, and one toy that can break and not put you in a transportation bind. Sell off some ofthe other vehicles, put the Quest or one of the TD cars back together for a daily(good gas mileage and still snappy), but leave them stock. Hell, you had a nice TBI Lebaron when we dropped of the turbo, drive that!

As far as the Stang, good exhaust, headers, some 4.10 gears, and a limited slip of some sort and even with the 3 speed it won't be too obnoxious on cruises.

[nos2go]

before anything...Id break down and change the oil and filter.

[4cfed]

well im sposta be getting the tbi lebaron back i sold it when i bought the gts from ray..i sold it fer 300 and am getting it back for free needs a radiator and tire(i got both)....... i can get the dyno max muffler sfer like 60-70 each at advanced ..is it nessisary to run a x or H pipe or can i run straights?

[badass88gt]

They say the H or X is better for both performance and sound. H pipes are cheap, definately worth buying instead of bending up pipe to make straight pipes, cuz the will need to be bent, theyre not "straight".

[4cfed]

i know dean sold his h pipe already so yeaha.....i can arrange the stock gt pipeing minues h pipe

[1badtgp]

See Eric, you're getting the idea. Drive the tbi Lebaron daily and build the Stang. Sell the Quest and all the other cars and just keep one daily and one toy. Use the money from the sale of the others to build the stang some.

[WICKED]

ok 4:10 and highway driving obnoxuis with straight pipes? im thinkin so....
im going for toy/daily driver

Straight pipes are fro redneck punks who drive rusty chevy trucks.

[4cfed]

i gotta put amotor in the quest first then its gone to much of a headach with it..i almost thougt of droping the motor and trans from the stang into it............ and i am a redneck but i dont drive arusty chebby i drive arusty ferd... but ima sofisticated redneck i got all my teef and a education..just cant type for shit on the computer

[1badtgp]

THAT would be a headche!!! Stick to the Stang. Cheap and easy to build and work on. No custom stuff to break.

[WICKED]

4cfed- Do you even have enough money to fil up the gas tank to make it back and forth from the trailer to work?

[4cfed]

there is a company that makes all the stuff needed for a5.0 swap into a conquest ..hell atlest it would be reliable

[4cfed]

yes i do have the money WTF you think im ☺☺☺☺in broke or something what the fuk?

[1badtgp]

Eric, just because someone makes the adapters to do it doesn't mean it will be more reliable. Once you start going past what was originally offered in the car, you will start running into problems. Trust me on that one.

[WICKED]

Yes I do think that! Just wondering if maybe you could save all the money you spend on fixing rusty old beaters and buy something nice and purty instead..

[4cfed]

i all ready did nice and pretty it was called my class winning 94 saturn sc2 (won best of class in 90-present domestic stock at the audobahn days car show 3 years ago) then my 97 saturn sl2 and my 95 eclipse prety dont matter to me right now..like darrel told me to do leave it ugly and make it fast

[1SLO5.0]

Use an H-pipe. They are cheap. There is supposed to be some low end power gain in an H and X pipe but more importantly they are readily available in fit nicely. You will have a nightmare with custom bent pipes. I have been down this road and have yet to find anyone in this area that can bend pipes for a Mustang that don't hit the floor or any other part of the car. Get an H-pipe and a flowmaster cat back exhaust. You can probably find the parts used on ebay. I think Kraus has some stock turbine wheels for sale. Buy those and put some 26x8.5 slicks or 26x10.5 et streets on the rear. Leave the car ugly. Fast, ugly stock looking cars take lots of peoples money.

[4cfed]

hehehe!! hell then i should leave the black steelies on it to lol

[jdsgallops]

Listen to Darrell. I had a custom bent Off road H pipe on my stang when i bought it. When I installed the BBK long tubes and shortie H pipe I did some measuring on the shorty header H pipe. Seems the compression bend where the vertical pipe from the header bends to run underneath the car was crushed down to a 2" oval on a 2 1/2" pipe. You think that compression bend actually helped performance compared to stock with cats? Doubt it, a couple of guys at the track mentioned the car was pretty quiet too. Aftermarket used mandrel bent pipe can be had for $75 or so, new will only cost about $130-140. Cheaper than what a muffler shop can do a compression bent one for.

[must85]

dont be stupid with the car if that is at all possible and the rear will hold up fine i ran mine all last year no problem and i was launching at 3000rpm with a 5 speed on cheaters but you will need a trac loc unit :☺☺☺☺ingi:
he he he he he j/k

[NEW BUILD]

Still have stock turbines with tires that are like new.Also e7 heads,stock all sorts of usless shit,laying around. :lastweek: :nuts: :eek: :doh: :wtf: :nanhump: :tongue: SORRY about that tempoary INSANITY.

[4cfed]

kraus if its useless shyt drop it alllll off at my house!!dean.. of course im trying to do shit right why do you think im seaking everyone input and advice. and the exhaust part i cant have them do shyt cuz they wont touch a car that doesnt have a cat(wont once exhaust time comes) i was going to order mandrel bent stuff but ehh

[lazyass]

you can find shops and sweet talk them, tell them your cool and you want to pay in cash with no reciept, ive had two shops here in point do that for me soo far

[snowseeker]

Have them make the exaust but not put it on. Take it home and put it on yourself.

[4cfed]

i got aplace here that useto do it that way for me but cant now

[YAV8]

Take the plates off and load it on a trailer. This is a off road vehical or drag race only car. They can and will do it if that is the reason for new pipes. Just tell them that the car is not driven on the street.

[4cfed]

damn why didnt i think of that sooner then i could have have my loud pipes on my cutlass done some where insta dof layin in a snow bank

[2tons0fun]

I only read the forst post but I ass-ume that everyone told you to ditch the 7.5 for an 8.8, which would be the smartest thing to do IMO.

If you do stick with the 7.5, look for a 2wd Ranger with a v6/manual trans (3 or 4L), many of them have limited slip diffs. I have been pounding mine for 150k and t still works great (in my Ranger, anyway).

2tons

[bohn]

Tom's in Oshkosh put duals on my truck with no cat and never had a problem with it. I signed some sort of form, can't recall what it was though.