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Driver safety in FED

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dusterdave173:
I get that question about 20 times a day at the track so I just started saying
"You can't blow them off if you ain't got'em"

that usually settles it

wideopen231:
reply yea its dangerous but that makes it cool.

noslin:
i was surprised at how many stock rearend housings guys where using.  some were gusseted across the pumpkin.  they had aftermarket third members but the housing itself looked stock to me.
dean

rooman:
Dean,
         in the early 70's my Don Long top fuel car had a narrowed but otherwise stock 8 3/4 Mopar housing with a factory iron third member. When it was built it had a Mickey Thompson mag third member but before it got to the strip it had the stock unit fitted.
   In most of my current builds I use the Strange H1110 housing without a brace and have never had any issues (even in NT/F applications)

Roo

fuel749:

--- Quote from: noslin on March 14, 2017, 09:25:11 PM ---i was surprised at how many stock rearend housings guys where using.  some were gusseted across the pumpkin.  they had aftermarket third members but the housing itself looked stock to me.
dean

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I have a customer who's car I built in 2003 that was supposed to be a mild fun car. Of course it's morphed into a blown big block for the 7.0 class. Used a new stock type 9" housing and it's still in the car to this day, no back brace. Don't forget that some of the fore/aft flex in the housing is mitigated somewhat by the narrowness of the housing, axle size, and maybe even the anti rotation device. Would I have preferred to use the housing that Roo uses? You bet I would, and it's all I use now unless a customer requests something different.

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