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Today I drove out to Leo's place to start taking apart my transmission I took out of my Cougar. After taking off the bell housing we noticed the magnet was completely covered in metal shavings. Definitely a sign that something was wrong. Once we had the entire transmission apart the problem was obvious: my differential was in very sad shape. I'm surprised it was still working at all after seeing the gear wear. 6 years of use, especially with 3 years of supercharged and autocross goodness can take it's toll. Fortunately the whole purpose of taking my tranny off was to put in a beefed up limited slip differential so the replacement part is on hand and ready to go. This one is designed to handle 500+ HP which I never plan to reach, but still get a warm fuzzy feeling inside knowing it can handle that much. The stock was designed for 170HP and put up with the 250HP my supercharger throws at it fairly well, but I could no longer stand the one-wheel-wonder that was my car. Soon I'll have two wheels to put the power down with and actually use most of the power I produce.