More diff questions!!

[ozzymoose]

Ok im at it again, needs to know more diff stuff lol

Needs to know if the 8.5 inch 10 bolt has any hope of fitting in the monza housing.I looked at various hbody sites and cant find a mention of it.

Also while im here want to know if the bulk of builders here either toss or keep the driveshaft counter balance box behind the gearbox. Pros and cons of either and if hi output causes any major issues.

Cheers all------- Moose

[cjbiagi]

If you are referring to installing 8.5 parts into a 7.5 housing, no, that will not work.

[ozzymoose]

cheers Clyde, just wishfull thinkin more than anything i spose, was hoping that there was heaps of room in the housing and that they was compatible oh well....

Whats the general consences on the driveshaft counterbalace box...... keep or toss??? What do the bulk of builders do here??

[AusRs]

so dave ......you look at the cossie ??

[ozzymoose]

mmmm na, notin to look at... was advertised wrong was supposed to read cosworth vega DRIVETRAIN but they stuffed up! Still he is going to send info to me on the stuff and where the body mite be all the way over there in the states, see what it turns up, maybe of use to ppl here if we cant get to it.

[ozzymoose]

Ok then no troubles or oppinions about driveshaft counterbalace box?? Oh well.

While im being a pain in the rear, does anyone have a close up pic of the torque arm mounted on the diff in a car?? Seen plenty of fbodies now, but they are different, need to see the hbody set up. Wants to start drawing up plans while i wait to get one.

Cheers all.... Moose

[gerbsinmd]

Moose,

I thought the counter balance box/weights were only installed on the 4cyl cars. I think they put them in to reduce drivetrain vibration caused by the cylinder.

Darrel

[starfire383]

Torque arm mount on my starfire looks just like the torque arm mount on my 97 camaro. Probably different dimensionally, but you're not going to be able to get dimensions off a picture anyway.

Good Luck!

[ozzymoose]

Cool, thanks guys, not really an issue then seeing i will get a v6/v8. Sounds like im gonna have to wait till i get one to make some plans. Still all the info i HAVE collected to date will make my life easier later on.

[bugdewde]

Not sure about the vibration dampener.............. I don't have one. Neither did my first Vega with a V6/tranny swap.

Here's a scan of a Vega Manual(Haynes) of the types of rears:
I can't get my scanner to resize just the two rears so here's the whole page........ sorry for the size. I tried 5 times

[ozzymoose]

Np at all Dwight, thanks for going to the trouble of posting this. Very usefull, thanks again, can get the gears turning in my head now lol!