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I dunno, uncle Tony just did a video and in the video he explains the benefits of using a 7.25 rear end. Makes perfect sense and I do think the 7.25 is underrated and there is a good reason Chrysler used it in 10 gazillion cars.

I priced gears for a 7.25 and only one I found was a 3.55 gear set from Yukon axles for $349.

I really don't see the economics in a 7.25 when a ford 8.8 is readily available and the gears are cheaper than that and in a much wider selection and limited slip units are here, there and everywhere...... chances are, there are a few parked in your neighborhood right now.

I an trying to give the 7.25 a chance because I have a bunch of them but I'm not seeing where they are so cheap and easy to work with. I would need far better gear selection at a good price and available sure grips that won't cost a grand.

I'm sure that I will have to change out the 7.25 in my swinger early on.


I call the 7 1/4" axle the "weak suck" rear end...

I blew 3 of them in 4 years in my daily driver 68 Barracuda with a mild 318 and not beat on... The last straw is when I was on the highway and the driver's axle came out with the tire still attached and passed me on the shoulder of the road while I was doing 55 MPH... If it wasn't for the super stock rear springs and the Mancini Racing longer u-bolts, I would have had some quarter panel damage...

After that I swapped in an 8 3/4" 3.23 sure grip and it never broke on me for the rest of the life of that car... I drove that car to 500,000 miles...

The 318 was just 9.2 compression, 360 heads, stock 340 4 bbl cam, 68 340 cast iron 4 bbl manifold, Holley 600 vac secondaries, and dual exhaust... Nothing radical, just an economy v-8 that got 17.75 MPG with a 2.76 gear...

So after that I don't run a 7 1/4 on anything but a slant 6...