we getting ready tostart putting the cars together and i keep hearing ppl saying i need to buy high performance axels for my setup, my power goals is around 477whp on 93 and a little under 600whp on c16. the car will be driven on short commutes, and will be tracked almost every weekend. my tranny will be built.

 

You don't really need them... but youll want them because stock axles add up pretty fast when you keep snapping them!

 

thanx for the fast reply so is that was usually goes often with that type of power, i also keep hearing those type of axels eat up trannies

 

i made 447whp on Pump, and 552whp on C16..

I have neverrr broken an axel. I did however upgrade to DSS 3.9s just for ease of mind.

 

when you are making power. Something is going to give!!

If it's not your axel, it's going to be the clutch, and when it's not the clutch it will be the tranny.

Learn to pre-load..

 

thanks i thought i was gonna be called a noob for asking i may just upgrade to be on the safe side, do they eat trannies?

 

well if you have a stock tranny! It willll eventually go (depending on how hard you drive the car). Upgraded axels will just insure that the axels won't be the problem area.

But with Honda drivetrain, if it's not one thing it's the other. Eventualy the weakest link will go. (it's usually the one you "cheaped" out on)

 

id rather have an axle let go than a transmission so imo its all or none. i wouldnt do axles without a gearset unless you want to start going through transmissions. if you treat them right stock axles can last a while.

 

get the axles, i cant believe i didn't do it earlier. I was fine with stock tranny.

 

i try to preload the axels a lil bit before lunch seems to make them last
also i just went and bought 2 new ones with a life time warrantee i just trade them in when the grease starts to squeeze out or they rip.

never had problems with my tranny and this is the 4th year ive been going to the track just my oppinion

 

I broke my OEM axels with 430whp. One broke during a second gear pull, not very safe.

 

ive driven 2 10 second civics with 50+ passes on slicks, 25+k miles on the street between the 2 cars, and have many other friends with 400+whp street driven, and other 10 second hondas none have broken an axle. then you go to the track and there are guys with 300whp breaking an axles every pass....its 85% how you treat them and 15 percent power.

 

2 schools of thought.

break axles not trannies.
not break axles, but may break trannies.

personally i hate fixing the car between rounds. broke axles suck. and yeah if you are making power stuff will break.

so you can do one of 2 things:
but a grip of autozone axles, or get a set that wont break.

it is really a question of money and wether or not you wanna fix the car when it breaks.

people have had luck on stock axles. personally, i am glad i threw down on dss 5.9's.

 

I break axles all the time. And it is not fun anymore. Autozone axles are crap. I cant launch on slicks without them snapping. I preload. If you have the money buy the freaking dss axles. And most guys break the diff in the tranny. I don't know if people are shredding first gear.