How much RWHP, BHP, or torque can the stock open diff take?
Also how much can the GSL and the GSL SE rear ends handle?
With a stock organic clutch...

 

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The question is not "How much power?" but, rather, "How much abuse?" And frankly, I've found the tranny output shaft to be the weaker link, between the two. I have broken an output shaft with a high-rev bog launch on R-compound tires, with a puck clutch on a streetport 13B GSL-SE. Never lost a rear end yet, despite pumping about 300hp through a puck clutch, on wrinkel-wall slicks, with a Peripheral Ported 13B...but that was with 4.875 gears. I suppose there is a limit, but it's never been a problem for me.

 

thats cool. I'm going to do a turbo II swap so my tranny will be ok. *tranny with engine* so i'm wondering how long and how much fun i can have with my stock open diff lol.

 

alot of us v8 guys are pushing 350ft/lbs with no issues at all. I'm not a clutch dropper though, it happens but not often enough to call it abuse.