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| What would be a good place or vehicle to find a nine inch that I can put in my '56 customline?
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| 57, 58, and 59 ford cars. Lincoln Versailles (already has disc brakes), some Granadas and Monarchs.
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| | Cactus, If you're running an automatic, and only on the street, you can also use an 8' from an early 60's Mustang or Fairlane. They're fairly strong and generally cheaper. But you'll have to convinve most owners that they are NOT a nine inch and not worth $200,000!
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| I am running a moderately breathed on 317" motor with a T-5, and I am just a little concerned with the durability of the stock rearend.
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| | Jan, A well set up 8" will easily handle 300 hp. Late model 8.8's in the Fox bodies are common and inexpensive also. You'd need to remove the control arms and brackets and weld on some leaf spring brackets, but that's not impossible. If you use a 57 58 or 9 rear end, you might want to replace the pumpkin with a later big bearing unit. the '57 parts were not very strong.
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| | Catus Y-Guy You might try looking at Explorer rear ends. I just pulled two from"Pull-A_Part" junkyard. They are 53" from B.P. to B.P. and already have leaf perches plus you can get ratio's from 3.08,3.55,3.73 and 4.10. When you look at the rear end tag, If there is an "L" between the numbers (example 3L73) then its a posi-unit. You can get these for 65-85$$ with drums or disc w/caliphers!!! The 8.8 is plenty tough for our Y's and they are lighter plus 90% will be 31 spline.... Thx Bill
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