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Old Oct 8, 2006 | 12:29 AM
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Default Who I still running a 6" rear with 10+psi?

I'm probably going to upgrade before mine breaks to help pay for the 7" swap, but just wondering.
Old Oct 8, 2006 | 01:24 AM
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Still running mine with about 10-11 psi. I autocross the car but am careful especially with 1-2 shifts. I've only been running my setup for a couple of months though.

I've known people running 15psi FM II setups on the 6" rears for years and have no troubles. Mechanical empathy goes a long way I suppose.
Old Oct 8, 2006 | 05:41 AM
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I'm not sure why you would think that 10PSI will break it. I run 15 PSI in mine with no problems. Of course, I've totally trashed rear ends with NA cars - it is all in how you treat them.
Old Oct 8, 2006 | 08:13 AM
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I'm still running the 6" rear. Next week the LSD 7" goes in. No problems yet on the 6", just leary.
Old Oct 8, 2006 | 01:49 PM
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i am. same thing, just very cautious.
Old Oct 8, 2006 | 02:09 PM
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i am running mine at 12-13 so far so good.
Old Oct 8, 2006 | 02:51 PM
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i ran my car at around 8-10psi. It never broke, but then i never did anystanding starts, or etc. with it.
Old Oct 8, 2006 | 05:43 PM
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Yeah I'm not hard on it really, never clutch drop it, shift into 2nd kinda hard sometimes at autox, but what I mainly want it for is to swap in an RX7 LSD. My VLSD is gettin me down. Ruins all my fun.
Old Oct 8, 2006 | 06:03 PM
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i have an ATS LSD, its a 6" rear but can i still swap to 7" or would i need a new lsd.
Old Oct 8, 2006 | 06:11 PM
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no you need to swap the whole pumpkin halfshafts and drive shaft to have it all work.
Old Oct 8, 2006 | 06:19 PM
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what he said. The weak link in the 6" is the ring and pinion, and you'll need all that magnamx-5 listed to go to 7"
Old Oct 8, 2006 | 06:23 PM
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still on the look out i think i might have finally found a 1.8 parts car to give me all the parts fingers crossed.
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