Rearaxle identification

Hello all,

Finally found an old corvette to hotrod up, it is an old race car and is a big project.

Can anybody tell what rearend this is, i do not think it is original.

Here are some pictures.

jp

 

LOOKS like a OLDS ...

real popular back in the day

 

Looks like an old Old's or pontiac to me. Super strong units, but if it was in a drag car it might have some crazy gears in it.

 

Yep. Olds is my guess, maybe Pontiac? But the Olds was the g***er rear of choice back when. The wheel pattern has been redrilled down from the big GM pattern to Chev, that's another clue.

 

I agree that it looks like an Olds. Clean off the area I circled (in the pic), and you should be able to pull numbers off it:




Also, this post should be very helpful:

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=105783

 

It's defiantly not corvette and shame on your for hot rodding a corvette. The NCRS gods will bestow great suffering to you.

 

Thanks for the tip.

I did find some number and here they are,

K258 and 622496 it might be 522496.

jp