Well.. I cooked the diff, and broke a driveshaft bolt in the process doing John Force burnouts at the drag strip.... (keep in mind the car has 130k on it and I ride her pretty hard so......)
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- Sheared the head off
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- Stud and nut were still in the hole Head sheared clean off
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Decided if I’m going to put a diff in it, just as well rebuild the whole rear suspension and all.... Right???
Just as well, might as well go 3.27’s right?
So I started pricing everything. $$$$
In the process of this... a gentleman with a couple of NASTY SS’s mentions something about having a complete 2014 SS Sedan rear cradle, with 24k miles on it. So I figured, Why not!?!
He removed the rear cradle to upgrade his SS, and it’s all there. So... with the help of my buddy Shelby, we loaded up and made the 365 mile trip to just outside of Fort Worth to snatch it up! (Saw a lot of neat cars along the way, and even had an SS pass us on the way back)
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While it’s not BRAND NEW... when we went to pick it up, I was amazed at the condition! So instead of rebuilding everything, I decided that a 106k LESS mile rear subframe assembly HAD to be a large improvement (and it is) to top it off, it’s a much larger sway bar that the stock PPV.
Since this cradle is out of a 2014, it utilizes the same brakes as our car, with the exception of the emergency brake cables..
The only thing that we changed in the process of this (other than the ebrake cables that I haven’t changed yet) was the wheel speed sensors and cradle harness.
The SS utilizes a different wheel speed sensor than at least my ‘13 has in it, we transferred over the PPV’s . Popped right in and has been working fine. This required swapping the harness over. Which was nothing more than a few plastic clips.
We left the SS Shocks and Springs (Shocks HAD to be, and they are, better than my 130k mile Shocks ) on the cradle, and put SS Springs on the front as well!
The SS Cradle bolted right up to the car, didn’t run into a single issue along the way, driveshaft bolts right up, same rubber coupling, same Bolts (requires basically all new bolts along the way)
All in all! SUPER happy! Car rides like a dream, drives like a dream, and looks soooo much better! Can’t wait to see what times she lays down!