Just a followup on what we have decided to do and are doing for the Stude and my lakester. The 8.75 2.28 ring and pinion is going on the shelf, but not forgotten. I already have a GM 7.5 and 2.28 and 2.14 gears for the lakester and will start with the 2.28's. Also have a Torsen center section that takes 28 spline axles that I'll have to order.
For the Stude pretty much the same will be tried. Buddy (that 'flatcad' guy) donated a GM 7.5 and John Burk basically donated 2.14 gears with his bargain/bargain/bargain basement price
. Thanks guys, and today Hooley bought a Torsen off of ebay. He has Ford axle tubes that he probably can use. I have 3 ford 9 inch rear-ends and don't want to cut the tubes off of them so will buy aftermarket tubes. He measured the I.D. of the ones he has and it looks like we can cut the tubes off outside the bell on the 7.5's and slide the Ford tubes over them and weld everything up. It this works I'll be posting pictures.
At this point we will probably not try and put the 7.5 in the Stude for Speed Week as we have the transmission setup now for the 2.47 Ford rearend and geared for the speed we'd like to run if possible as a first step. If that works then we would change to the GM 7.5 for maybe a later date and re-gear the transmission.
Joe's Extremeliner is still what we would both like to have at some point,
Sum