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Originally Posted by Steve1968LS2
You know.. this has always bugged me.. that rear was perfectly fine for the way the car came from the factory.
It's not GM's responsibility to over-engineer parts so that people can run slicks, add blowers, or do other changes to the car.
I found it fascinating that someone would add slicks, toss on a 200 shot of nitrous and then complain that the "crappy" rear blew apart. lol
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ive blown 10bolts on street tires with only a CAI on the car.
but looking at it from GM's pov at the time, it was a cheap and easy rear to throw in the car that would not be destroyed by 90% of the buyers for the car.
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Originally Posted by brandotron
I disagree.
I understand not having to engineer stock parts for people with FI, nitrous, etc in mind, but SLICKS? Come on now, there are countless horror stories on ls1tech about people blowing up their rear ends on sticky tires and STOCK POWER. There are also a few about DONUTS on street tires killing 10 bolts. The way I see it, durability involves the purposeful over engineering of a wear item. The fourth gen wasn't an economy commuter car - why would they design a rear end that could juuuuust barely handle 300-350hp on street tires?
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axle flex is a bitch. but you dont hear about the numerous people who HAVENT blown their rears. also, how many miles are on the rears of the cars getting the rear blown over on tech? how many passes down the track?