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Originally Posted by UsedTaHaveA68

No disrespect was meant, Vash. You stated it was "an American manual." I was merely pointing out that Tremec is a Mexican company.

And the reason I was picking on the 4th gen rear ends is because the ring is a very small 7.5" in diameter. The old 10-bolts from the 60's were 8.5". The 4th gen rear ends were designed to be low-cost, economical, and efficient. And they were. Those small rings created less parasitic drag than a larger ring and pinion, i.e. GM 12 bolt (8.875") or Ford 9 inch (9", quite obviously). I have personally been at the track when a guy I knew, with a brand new 35th anniversary Trans Am, yellow with black stripes, bone stock not 3 months old, put a set of 16" salad shooters on the back with some Nitto drag radials and broke the rear end in half on his first run. These rear ends are NOTORIOUS for breaking when higher-than-stock power levels are applied to them with good traction. This, in my very humble opinion, hardly makes GM "king of the rear-ends." And as stated in my first post, they have quite obviously come a long way since then. I do not assume people here don't own or haven't owned 4th gens, and I have a feeling most of them will back up my opinion that those 7.5" rear ends are NOT the best to ever come out of Detroit.

So next time you think you're "owning" someone, at least learn how to spell it correctly.

Done with this thread.

Stick to the topic please. Vash was already addressed. Take it to PMs if you need...