- Mar 30, 2005
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Its been a while since I've posted but here is the story.
I was in Boise at the Night Fire Nationals and in the 3rd round of eliminations I heard a loud bang on launch and the car almost hit the wall. Luckily I kept it off the wall but the 8.8 rearend was toast. I had my axel tubes welded but it wasn't good enough. Broke the welds and put my slick right into the fender well. Luckly no damage to the fender but cut the slick to shreds. Thank God for tubes in the tires! I am a firm believer in tubes in the tires now. So we got the car home and tried to straighten it but no chance. I tried to find a 8.8 from a junkyard but couldn't. So I decided to go with a Moser bolt in 9" with 33 spline axels, spool, 3.89 gears, and a nodular 3rd member. I was a little worried at first about the extra weight and geometry of the suspension. After a late Friday night of thrashing on the car we took it up to Spokane for testing. The track surface sucked due to it being closed all season and final opened up for 4 races with no track prep. After playing with it and noticing I set the pinion angle positive 2 (DUMB) we re set the pinion angle at negative 2 and headed for Bonanza Raceway. First pass I went 7.27 at 93mph with the 1/4 mile conversion being like 11.35 I was in shock. All my doubts were put at ease. Went 4 rounds that day and headed home with a smile of success. Sorry so long.
I was in Boise at the Night Fire Nationals and in the 3rd round of eliminations I heard a loud bang on launch and the car almost hit the wall. Luckily I kept it off the wall but the 8.8 rearend was toast. I had my axel tubes welded but it wasn't good enough. Broke the welds and put my slick right into the fender well. Luckly no damage to the fender but cut the slick to shreds. Thank God for tubes in the tires! I am a firm believer in tubes in the tires now. So we got the car home and tried to straighten it but no chance. I tried to find a 8.8 from a junkyard but couldn't. So I decided to go with a Moser bolt in 9" with 33 spline axels, spool, 3.89 gears, and a nodular 3rd member. I was a little worried at first about the extra weight and geometry of the suspension. After a late Friday night of thrashing on the car we took it up to Spokane for testing. The track surface sucked due to it being closed all season and final opened up for 4 races with no track prep. After playing with it and noticing I set the pinion angle positive 2 (DUMB) we re set the pinion angle at negative 2 and headed for Bonanza Raceway. First pass I went 7.27 at 93mph with the 1/4 mile conversion being like 11.35 I was in shock. All my doubts were put at ease. Went 4 rounds that day and headed home with a smile of success. Sorry so long.
