I would think the D44, like the 8.75, would hold up fine in a cornering application until you combine lots of HP, really sticky tires, a manual transmission and hard launches.

I don't know about fit, and impact on the driveshaft and angles... but you could get disk brakes for low cost that way. Otherwise, I would (and did) stick with the 8.75. It serves me well with ~590 HP and ~680 ft lb torque and manual transmission... with 200 TW tires. I'm just concerned If I switch to 50 TW tires, it will let go on hard launch.

My understanding, the D44's used in Vipers were heavily beefed with special alloy parts and much stronger than the SUV version. With 50 TW track tires or slicks, I would guess a hard launch would break a Viper D44 also. That's probably why Viper drag racers switch to a D60.