ok so i was reading the haynes manual...on the toilet.....good crapper book, not that anyone needed to know that......anyways.....i stumbled across a section on rear ends...no pun intended....and read that the 91 and 92's --camaros-- came with only TWO rear ends, one being 3.23 non posi, and 2.73 posi.....

True??

would make sense why i can spin tires from a stand still

91 rs very moded.

 

cant be.


because my 2.73 rear RS doesnt have a Posi.


most 2.73 rears are non performance open units.

 

yeah se thats what im saying, but low and behold, thats what haynes says....not that they are always right.....was just pointing out what i read. seeing if this were true or not

what year is your rs? this stated only 91 and 92 came with ONLY two options, the rest of the years had like 8 diff options....

 

i was paying attention

mines a 91.

**remembers to attach sig this time**

 

 

no tmi would be saying i ran out of toilet paper and used the manual...lmao...jk

 

LOL hopefully you just used the Notes pages in the back hehehe

 

yea cuz you really wouldnt want a streaky rear end hahaha


ok in that book does it say for 91-92 camaro rs's?....

you could get a posi with either gear


kinda stupid though right...2 options a 2.73 posi or a 3.23 non posi hahahhha

 

your sig makes my browser scroll super slow, and that with a p4 2.0ghz

 

i have a 92 firebird with 2.73 and a open diff. i was reading about rear =ends and it said that posi and limited slip were the same thing is that true?

 

That's about all Haynes is good for IMHO. I have a 2.73 open rear sitting in my shed right now, that came out of my '91 RS about 3 months ago (in favor of a 3.70 posi .) So the whole "only 2 rears" thing is definitely shot down.


Also, "Positraction" a.k.a. posi is nothing more than a fancy GM name for limited slip.

 

by all means i never said this was a fact, i was just wondering wtf the haynes manual writers were thinking....and people wonder why i never use the manual...heh!

 

I believe your video card would have something more to do with it than the cpu my old 933 was just fine and now the 2.4 ghz is just fine with his sig.

 

My 91z came with posi 2.73 rear/drum brakes. I think in 91-92 you could still get the g92 option? I dont know I bent an axle and put a 4thgen rear in.

 

general motors to the best of my knowledge has never made a true positive locking rear, just limited slip. i think the only positive locking diffs are detroit lockers, air lockers, and spools. could be wrong but you'd have to prove it to me to get me to admit it on this one. thats why i never say posi, i call the diff whatever the company called it. general motors, limited slip. chrysler, sure grip. ford, who cares?j/k

 

well, im just quoting the manual here...lol

 

i used to swear by the haynes manual.fixed many cars with them, even 2nd gen f-bodies. then, i bought the one for 3rd gen f-bodies. what a crock of s#!t!

 

hahaha yes... I have a haynes and a chiltons both are fine for tuneups and info like firing order and fluid amounts, but they suck for anything else. Im looking to get an actual gm service manual.

 

ah, yes a gm service manual. that would be lovely. but even they can be inacurate at times.

 

im posting from a 233Mhz 16MB of ram POS computer. video card is something built on the motherboard

it works just fine.



ive had a few (very few) people on other msg boards tell me similar things... athough ive found that their computers suck with ANY animated gifs...


every animated gif i make and post is as compressed optimised as possible... its not really my sig, but your PC.

 

Want some extra ram for that beast? lol

 

Posi...posi trac...posi traction...positive traction--that was the original name. Not positive locking. A locker is a locker, fully locked or unlocked. A spool isn't really a locker it's just a spool. Limited slip(by whatever means, clutches...torsen) gives power to both wheels but not equally. Posi is simply GM's name for limited slip.

 

you know what? i was kooking around today on the internet today and found a site called musclecarclub.com. i think that was the name. anyway, they have a list of different differentials. they list limited slip and positraction as two different (although they sound pretty close to me)differentials. oops, i was wrong. and as for me saying positive locking, i meant the only way to have a positive lock between axles is a spool or lockers. (or you can weld the spider gears) i should have specified that.i just kinda mixed positraction and lockers together and confused myself. sorry