8 3/4 Sure grip options for a lot of abuse

[LemonWedge]

I’ll offer this: I went through breaking (2) powerlocks. Then stepping up to a locker because ai didn’t want to run a spool on the street. In retrospect for me, the locker was a mistake. At the time I thought it was fine, and others have had good experiences with them. But it pushed my car back & forth getting on and off the gas. This was especially troublesome at the drag strip when bracket racing; chopping the throttle at the top end (downright scary). So I finally went to a spool. Driving with it made me realize just how bad the locker was. Suddenly my car went straight again, and I didn’t have to steer against the throttle.

As far as Driving with a spool on the street: honestly, I don’t know why I was so worried about it. Now, in full disclosure, if you have a nice restored type musclecar that you take to cruise night regularly... it’s true it would be a bit of a thorn in that realm and that’s not it’s place. However, if you want a serious Street/Strip car with a choppy cam, a big double-pumper, deep gears, drag radials and a manual torqueflight, then it fits right in to that scene.

I don’t drive my car on the street a ton. But I enjoy it when I do and I’ve become accustomed to rolling into the cruise lot on slicks scuffing and chirping around the corners.

 

[Curiousyellow71]

I’ll offer this: I went through breaking (2) powerlocks. Then stepping up to a locker because ai didn’t want to run a spool on the street. In retrospect for me, the locker was a mistake. At the time I thought it was fine, and others have had good experiences with them. But it pushed my car back & forth getting on and off the gas. This was especially troublesome at the drag strip when bracket racing; chopping the throttle at the top end (downright scary). So I finally went to a spool. Driving with it made me realize just how bad the locker was. Suddenly my car went straight again, and I didn’t have to steer against the throttle.

As far as Driving with a spool on the street: honestly, I don’t know why I was so worried about it. Now, in full disclosure, if you have a nice restored type musclecar that you take to cruise night regularly... it’s true it would be a bit of a thorn in that realm and that’s not it’s place. However, if you want a serious Street/Strip car with a choppy cam, a big double-pumper, deep gears, drag radials and a manual torqueflight, then it fits right in to that scene.

I don’t drive my car on the street a ton. But I enjoy it when I do and I’ve become accustomed to rolling into the cruise lot on slicks scuffing and chirping around the corners.

TWO power locks...dam

For the most part you just describes how we plan to drive the car. I think I am sold on running a spool..

 

[LemonWedge]

TWO power locks...dam

yeah... both times it sheered the side-gears and then pitched the shafts into the center and scarred the case up. It was a learning experience. I broke it the first time, and rebuilt it with new parts back to exactly what it was. When it broke again less than a year later, I thought to myself: “wow... that was dumb. DUH!!, what did you think would happen, genius” I think that was when I learned to embrace braking things as nothing more than an opportunity to improve the car.

 

[Cojohnso1]

I run an 8 3/4" Mosier axled 4.56:1 gear in a 10 sec A-body. With a spool. Has held up 3000 lb.

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