roaddogscycles

Are you running a Borg Warner 9 bolt? If so what luck have you had and how much power are you running? Just put one in my 87 f/b with 383 stroker. Power is roughly 500/500

rb85TA

roaddogscycles, don't know who your question is pointing towards?
Is the 9 bolt stock? Or does it have a spool, gears & aftermarket axles?
If it's stock. .. no way will it live with those power #'s .
If it's built ( aftermarket stuff), it should live at those #'s.
If you plan on upping the power ( nos, supercharger or turbo ), not for long.
A Dana 44 built can safely go 9's (1/4 eta ), if you want more / faster , Moser 12 bolt, ford 9", strange s60, etc...
Hope this helps

roaddogscycles

The rear end in mine is stock, 9 bolt out of a Camaro. If I'm not mistaken the 9 bolt rear end comes with Dana 44 axles. I'm unable to get traction so I'm sure the rear end will last until I start hooking up, I also put a stage 2 clutch only good to 450h/p and sometimes I smoke that thing so that is my weak link so. I'm just wondering what some people have put behind these things and are they holding up or not?

roaddogscycles

Rb85ta also I'm at 12.5:1 so I'm n/a

rb85TA

LOL, I hear you. ... sounds like you need some help tuning the suspension. Put 90/10 Lakewood drag struts up front, softer rear shocks , 28 inch tall slick (as wide as you can ), a good torque arm & LCA'S, set your pinion angle at about 2° down (make very small adjustments, on my friends drag/street car he found his best was 1.76° down ), every car will be slightly different, and when you can put some gear in it (your stock setup is probably a 3.23-3.42), your going to want at least a 3.73-3.92.
Good luck

roaddogscycles

Yea I'm starting to do the suspension stuff real soon, my stock gear in the 10 bolt rear end was2.73, the 9 bolt is 3.27 but your right I want at least 3.73, I just want to work on stiffening the unibody prior to getting traction or I will tweak the car. My passenger door already doesn't want to open hahah. Thanks for advise really appreciate it!!

rb85TA

Hey, absolutely no problem. Take it to a body shop & put it on a frame machine, get her straight before you do subframe connectors. ..or it'll never be right.
Everyone has an opinion, mine. ... I'm running UMI Performance products (mainly).