camaro_chic17

Just updating this. I decided not to buy the spacer since I "race" my car and I need everything to be as strong as I can get haha. I bought gears for a 2 series carrier.

98CamaroZ28 switching from 342s to 373s would not be worth it unless u have to get new gears or had more mods.. catback or SFCs would be decent

FORCE_FED_Z

Did you look into getting a c-clip eliminator for your rear-end while you are in there?

I luckily never broke my rear-end but with gobs of power and street tires it never got enough traction to break.

Best of luck with the 10-bolt. If you are racing at the track and are running anything under 13 I would start the piggy bank for either a 12 or 9 rear.

Sinister95Z

Agreed.

camaro_chic17

What is a C-clip eliminator? Idk how close my car is to 13s now lol track is 3 hours away but I am always on street tires -Sumimoto HTRZ-IIs. I hope it doesn't break.. I am spending more than I really wanted on the 10-bolt cuz there's not many places in Omaha that know what they're doing with rear ends I had to go to a slightly more expensive shop. Now that I need a transmission for my daily a 12 bolt is very far off in future plans. First things first Eclipse needs a transmission and hub and bearing and motor mount (AFC too if I can manage cuz it's running too rich in this cold weather). The Camaro can have everything put off for another year which is just spark plugs and wires, door locks fixed, ABS inop light taken care of, small oil leak fixed that could be causing it to have a hard time starting. I don't even think I am that hard on my cars, but my Camaro has always broken kind of often and my Eclipse was awesome until it was hit.

archemedes

c clip eliminator is to get rid of the dangerous device teh maufacturers use to hold the axles, it looks like a c and goes into teh end of the axle shaft in a groove machined for it, every gm axle since the early 50's has them and all ford and chrysler ones since the 80's have them (cheaper to rpoduce, and quicker to produce)

FORCE_FED_Z

If you saw the little piece of metal that acutally holds in your axles, you would probably think twice about road racing of blowing donuts. But if you are already putting in too much money at this point and are going keep in mind the weakness's of the 10 bolt I think you will be fine. Like I said, on street tires driving on the roads I doubt you would get enough traction to break the rear-end unless you deliberately set out to break it.

Like I said, my rear-end withstood over 500hp in front of it for quite a few miles, but only because I never went to the track. Keep your eye out on forums for either a group purchase or someone selling a rear. You might get lucky and get a smokin deal.