Thread: Project "Left Overs" is back alive !

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Jim, that's good info about the Ace hardware trailer plates. I just am not sure if the bolt pattern would have been the same as the Total Performance perch I used, but worth checking out, that's for sure.

You are right about 8 inch stuff being a lot more expensive than 9 inch stuff. I don't know if it is because of availabilty or what, but it costs a lot more for everything. I'm not too worried about hurting it, as I rarely get on my cars hard, even my 27. I drive like an old man.............oh wait, I AM an old man. Don has an 8 incher in his T bucket, with only something like 2:79 gears, non posi, and he does push his harder than I do, and it has held up well.

I was going to buy him another center section with deeper gears for Xmas sometime, but that ratio seems to work great with his light weight, 3000 stall convertor, and good HP. When I am following him in my 27 and he leaves a light I have to push it a little just to keep up with him............for high gears it launches hard. If I remember correctly, I think the rear Kurt gave me has a similar ratio and that will be nice because I want this rpu to be the car I drive on the interstate to distance events. The 4:30's in my 27 make it very unpleasant at anything over 50 mph.

As you can see by this picture, Don has a somewhat heavy foot.

Don