if you decide to buy a diff i would recommend a plated diff if you mainly do drag racing! if you like the road and track days you best off with a quaife.
David.
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if you decide to buy a diff i would recommend a plated diff if you mainly do drag racing! if you like the road and track days you best off with a quaife.
David.
Not into locked diffs if thats what you meant.
My old skyline with 360bhp had a drifting welded diff, and I got 14.4 @ 109.7mph !!!! Awful launches every time and it clunked round corners and skipped.
Cheers!
Jon.
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Originally Posted by david dixon
no no not fully locked, you can have what spec you want from plated.....just about anyway and they work much better from what i have seen and felt.
that said i am using a 90% locked diff this time around lol
David.
I agree dave, my plate diff on my old G40 was awesome for dragging...
ATB are deffo a track diff, not great for the strip, in FWD anyway..
diffs are always a good thing :thumb: but i will disagree with one point, the plated format is by far the best for a track orientated car. Quaife in my eyes is more of a road/occasional track/occasional qtr type diff. But for anything more permanent its got to be plate all of the way.
Anyone who claims the atb is defo a track diff should really drive with both and in varying conditions for the ultimate test, then make an assumption :thumb: (if you havent lol) .
when i ran the quarter in my old baby 8v the diff was no real gain at all imo, but then running low 14's is nothing compared to some of you guys so it's probably all relative to the cirmustances :) .
youtube vids - the drag runs in my nova
external ...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jA0y8eUNtpU
in-car .... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PuE6ummgjg
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I have run both on various cars, although not in a Nova...Quote:
Originally Posted by Dan
Plate gave me nearly 0.4 on the strip, most an ATB ever gave me was 0.2, but granted that was on diff cars...
A ATB didn't really do me any joy with a LET on the strip, wheel spin through 1, 2 and a bit jumpy in 3rd! but its horses for course
David.
interested in your experianceQuote:
Originally Posted by Dan
ive been told that a plate diff can be terrible for a fwd car on track, and the reasons make sense to me
for a vehical to turn both wheels need to be travling at diffferent speeds, a plate diff stops this and will make both want to turn at the same speed this was my understanding why it can make fwd cars just want to understeer.
i can imagine it will all depend on the ramp angles of the plated diffs
David.