Well the direction I’m going on the rear end was kind of decided yesterday. I was out at the wrecking yard picking up some parts for a customers car and almost tripped over a 57-9 Ford 9”, it had been pulled a while back and was just sitting there. The tag says it’s a 3.10 gear set, but I’ll swap straight across for one in the 2.7 range at some point. I already have a nice 3.10 set on the shelf if I decide to go that deep, and on paper the 2.7 is more where I want to be.

I picked it up for $100 complete drum to drum. If I go the complete route with this including new axels and a disc brake conversion, Ill be into it for a couple hundred less than the Quick Performance unit with drum brakes. There are some even cheaper options involving the stock axels and drum brakes but I’ll figure that out later.