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WINTERS PERFORMANCE SINCE 1958

Quick change rear ends have been a staple of our hobby since the first hot rodders adapted the race-bred rears to their street cars over 70 years ago. The premise is simple: instead of the driveshaft connecting directly to the ring and pinion as it does in a traditional fixed-ratio rear, on a quick change, it connects to a lower shaft running beneath the ring and pinion to a pair of vertically-oriented spur gears that drive the pinion. These spur gears can quickly and easily be changed in the pits, the parking lot, or the

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