Originally Posted by mr-pitts

I'm in the UK and have just had a full blown 8.8 diff kit sent over by Kings performance.

First thing, the diff touches the bottom of the fuel tank and if it was left as is it would soon puncture a hole in the tank. Next the bolts holding the front of the diff are not long enough, there is no bolts supplied to fit the prop shaft to the diff, I put a post up asking if anybody had an idea what size/pitch the bolts were..... All I got was go get them from a Ford dealer. It doesn't quite work like that in the uk, if I went int a Ford dealer and asked for diff bolts for a 2004 Mustang Cobra they would go into meltdown.So what size are the f*cking bolts????? Is the question to difficult??none of the other bolts fit so having laid out the best part of $6000 for a supposedly complet bolt on kit I have got to f*ck about buying bolts at random trying to find something that fits.

I have asked Fernando a few times what bolts I need and asked him if its worth me PMing full blown and asking them he told me he would find out, as yet nobody has told me anything. I am sick of F*cking around buying parts from America and then having to source bolts,spring washers, nuts and various other parts which to supply would cost penny's , but take time and money to find over here.

So the title of this post should be " nearly bolt on kit but with the wrong bolts supplied" this is one reason that my 9 month build project will take double that because I have to source parts that I wrongly presume will come with the kit that in this case Cost around$6000.

I don't know who's fault this is but it isn't mine, I paid my money.

If I am blaming the wrong people here I am sorry, it could be Drive Shaft Shop,it took them 5 months after they had my my money before they told me the couldn't supply me with the aluminium drive shafts.

The way things are going or have gone I don't see myself ever dealing with any more American sourced parts for my car.I can't blame Fernando for this because all the supplied parts came in sealed up boxes, so he wouldn't know what was there and what wasn't.

I can supply pictures of any of the F*uck ups mentioned above if anybody is interested.

I may be being a little cautious here but this setup is supposed to be good for 1000 hp, I'll be running 800+. Do these bolts look safe?

Originally Posted by FullBlown

Yes it looks like you put a spacer between the top of the diff and the bracket. Those spacers are only used for diffs that are 10mm shorter. This could be the problem you are having with the bolts being too short.

Originally Posted by WootRWD

These are all the bolts I got..... Is that it or am I missing any?

Originally Posted by WootRWD

Guys running this kit:

I picked up some ap1s that I'm going to be running radials on with

Question is with this rear end they have extended studs.
I don't want to run a spacer.
I don't want to run acorn style after market lugs on oem wheels....


Just curious to see what you guys are doing out there...

Originally Posted by WootRWD

Perfect thanks bud!