Hey I have a 8 inch with a mini spool in my 71 mav I know a 9 inch is the way to go but what I really want to know is I have been told that you can use a full spool from a 9 inch with some minor machineing is this something anyone has seen or done?
you can machine the 9" spool to fit a 8". you have to machine the passenger side down to the width of the 8" carrier. i dont see any advantage to doing this that is worth the expense. you will have a weight savings but not a significant amount. unless you are or know a good machinist that will do this for you for minimum cost then you will be spending allot of money that wont result in any measurable gains.
I don know someone that can do the machine work cheap thats why it kinda appeals to me and im not so much interested in the weight savings but the strenght, since a have a stick when i launch at the track ive already broken one pin on a mini spool. Im working on doing a 8.8 swap but in the short run i want to race some this season with out blowing up the rear end i have
