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Old May 29, 2008 | 09:34 PM
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I have a 91 RX-7 rear end in my nissan pick up .I know its not a mazda but still need your help.I need to know what the rear end can handle in horse power and torque . it is all stock need to see if it can handle a chevy 350 stock motor .if not where can i get it up graded
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Old May 29, 2008 | 09:59 PM
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There's some related info here:
http://www.grannysspeedshop.com/

They claim the "stock RX7 components" will handle around 500hp, which I assume means the diff and half shafts. But you probably won't be pushing near that much.
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Old May 29, 2008 | 10:30 PM
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I've seen a few 350-driven RX7s. There is a guy here in PHX that has a red one.
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Old May 29, 2008 | 10:46 PM
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400 hp or so but looking at the half shaft they dont look real strong
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Old May 29, 2008 | 11:02 PM
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Half shaft usually doesn't break, the thing it connects to in the diff will break first from what I have been told.

Assuming you have a turbo rear end and not a n/a rear end you should be able to handle a 350.
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Old May 30, 2008 | 11:32 AM
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NA's have smaller shaft and diff sizes.

Plenty of people are running the stock turbo rear end on lots of power.

NA. not many run it so there isn't a real "breaking" power number yet.
Some LSx guys are running NA still.

I personally ran my NA diff until last week in my turbo conversion. I don't drag launch though and that's the big killer.
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Old May 30, 2008 | 07:37 PM
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thx i did get the rear end out of a turbo car thx again for the info
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