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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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That's because you don't hear about all the people that didn't break there rear ends. lol
Hey, they were the weak links in the chain, but again, it's not GMs job to make the car stand up to drag racing and certainly not doing donuts.. lol
It's the same reason they didn't come painted (and thus rusted).. because it saved GM a few bucks and let them give you Corvette performance at Camaro prices.
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