Dana 44 verses BBF

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Tom

I have Hunter #009 and it has held up pretty well thru about 10 road race events(Gainesville, FL and Roebling Road) using a Dana 36 which is the little brother to the Dana 44. Chevy put the 36 behind the automatic C4 Vette's and the 44 was used behind the Manual Transmission Vette's. The bid bad Viper uses a dana 36 ring gear so I assume it uses a Dana 36. Randy has a few customers with big block cars and he suggests a 44 for these cars. Robert Lightsey has a Hunter with a 502 chevy crate motor that he has blueprinted and it puts out somewhere near 530hp at the flywheel. He has run this car at run and gun and it finished in the top in almost every category it was entered(I think he won his category in the autocross).

As for breaking the dana 44 I doubt you will have any problems unless you plan on drag racing using drag slicks. For road course racing and drag racing using any street tire you will be fine. Remember a Hunter with a big block will weigh about 2600# whick is much less than BIB's fat pig West Coast car.

The Hunter Chassis and Corvette suspension were a big selling point to me. Randy Hunter has to be the most honest and caring person in the entire Kit car industry along with Paurl at Finish Line.

p.s. welcome to the Hunter family