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Driver safety in FED

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dusterdave173:
I cut the back off another 9 inch and welded that "cap" on the back of my housing
If I were to do it again I would skip that and save the weight
Our cars don't have enough weight to break rears
A door car is a whole different animal

dreracecar:
The availability of an aftermarket housing is a boon to builders, Finding housings in the wrecking yards, cutting them down and cleaning them for use, took soooo much time and labor that would be hard to get payed for. Now you just order up a clean new unit made with even better material

noslin:
mine has the mitler bros housing and strange ultra pro third member.  just surprised me to see so many stock housings in a lot of the feds.  i figured it would be commonplace in some of the faster cars to have aftermarket housings. i get that some of these feds been around a long time and people do not upgrade for whatever reason.  i also understand even in 7.0 a fed is prob making 1200 hp to run the number comfortably and stock housing might be able to handle that for a while. would you think the third member would fail first before the housing?   this is assuming the housing mounting is up to nhra spec as noted earlier. 
dean

dreracecar:
The (new) stock housings offer more room for the drivers legs whereas the fabbed sheetmetal housings are bulkier. Running a stock Ford 9"  housing with CM tubes and no backbrace, installed for over 20+ years, ZERO problems. But it helps knowing what you are doing

rooman:
Dean,
         Bruce is right on the money regarding the amount of room that the fabricated housings take up. Some manufacturers (Moser is one) make the housing so that it has a symmetrical appearance from the rear and that results in extra material outboard of the chunk on the right side. In the case of a handbrake car especially, this is not a good thing. Some of this problem is negated if you have a "high chair" car like some of the newer NT/F entries but we don't like them anyway and prefer a true nostalgia look. :)
  The other advantage of the Strange H1110 is that its design means that the axle tubes are very well supported due to the length of the welds that secure the tubes. Most of the others simply weld the housing to the tube at the end of the housing taper and to an internal bulkhead



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