1965 MMP's Barracuda Hemi swap! The Ever Changing Build

purplehazenils said
Just found your build, this is sweet I will be following! What angle did you set the diff at?

So jag has 3 different housings set at 3 different angles. 0*, 6* and I think 3*. Well I happen to get the 6* what this means is the mounting surface at the top of the diff case is at a 6* angle to the pinon at 0*. So taking in account that this unit it not solid mounted it will flex some. I set my mounting angle at 5* so my pinon is at 1*. My trans it at 4* this allows me 3* flex under load. Then I had to figure out how much swing in inches a 5* angle will change my axle location on 8" from axes, turns out to be about .5" so I had to place the hole unit .5" forward of center to get the axles centered. It sounds soo much easier typing it out lol... Doing it was a pain in the ***! and the math was ******* with my head... :BangHead:
I will say after doing all the math and **** for the triangulated 4 link then switching up and doing IRS. This was soo much easier. Surprising cause I chose the 4 link setup over this first only cause I was worried at the amount of work that would be needed and the lack of IRS info for this platform.
In the end curiosity killed the cat and I'm glad it did. I'm soo much happier with this than I would have been with the straight axle...
This weekend I'll build lower torque arms for the front of the diff housing, as wells as a set of rear toque arms. I will have to narrow the half shafts and lower control arms to fit larger set of wheels, as well as have the full diff rebuild. OH and I now have a full four wheel disc brakes for a fraction of cost for a rear Disc conversion :D