It's just time consuming to swap the drums for discs, but worth it -- I did it with a little help on my '95. The spider gears are the biggest pain, and some of the bolts are pretty tight back there too...

 

asr! thats right lol. see.... I dont have it so i couldnt remember its real name

 

while it was on the lift today (oil change) i checked it. turns out it's definitely posi. it had to have came from another camaro because i didn't have any of those codes. now, my next question is this: if it's from a z28, rs, or y87, would the gears be different? i have to shift to 2nd around 33, 3rd around 55, and 4th around 88. 4th takes it all the way to 118 or so and shuts off with about a thousand rpms or more to spare in that gear. does that sound like regular v6 shift points? give or take a few mph of course.

these questions about my rear axle aren't all that important, i know, but i just want to know what i have is all.

 

sounds like a z28 rear... mine is auto but it shifts at lower speeds that that... i guess it might depend how hard you are driving it to

 

those shifts i mentioned above were if i ran each gear to the red line. well, i never redline, but right at it.

i thought the autos had longer gears.

 

Yeah sounds like a Z28 rear end. If it was stock you'd need to go to fifth to top it out.