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Re: Welded Diffs Wed, 15 October 2003 14:36 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
haha welded diffs are fun!
A friend with a gemini (stock) filled the centre with HQ wheel nuts then empied 6 welding rods into a molten mess..
Worked well (for about 5 minutes) then bang..
no probs though, he just made another (true about stock gems doing good circle work with locker)

Have yet to change a celica diff (although i can see the time coming shorty) but i was thinking along the lines of drilling holes through the spider gears and putting a pin through them to connect to the diff carrier. That way it would be simple, neat, balanced, and strong. (no dodgy welds to break)

Not sure if it's possible though cause i havn't seen what a toy diff looks like yet..

Have a locker in a kingswood, very very fun, Basiclly will chew tires out (front and rear) going round corners makes a eee eee eee eee eee noise (VERY noticable) and all it takes is a slight tap of the throttle and your looking at the guttter, then the other gutter, then yeah..

Parking is hard in a kingswood, but when youve got a locker, you've gotta allow for extra understeer (even at 5km/h)

BUT then again U turns are soooooooo much easier...

In the wet, i've driven one at over 110km/h for 165km trips, and no problems.. You've only got to worry about how far you turn the wheel at a given time..

for example, if your on the freeway, and their's a long sweeping bend, you probably turn the wheel about half a turn right? with a locker no problem...

Half a turn at 5km/h is shit all, when parking you might pull 3 turns to turn into a spot etc, so thats when you'll see the eee ee ee effects of the locker diff.. So lockers are ok as long as you don't turn the wheel too much, and if you adjust your driving style to suit is really good..
and becuase you know IF you get wheel spin, it's BOTH wheel spin, it makes the car more predicable and thus safer.. Like going into a corner in the wet in an open diff, you have to allow for if you'll get it to kick out, AND also if it does'nt kick out (single wheels) with a locker you only have to allow for it kicking out, cause that's all it can do.

If your trying to get a RWC and don't want to change your diff, just get an old axel, angle grind off the axel shaft, and put it back in, that way you wont squeak when you turn onto the hoist..
just don't let the rwc guy test drive it cause then it will steer like a tank (literally) (or MAJOR torque steer for a RWD car due to 1 wheel drive)

Benefits though: AWESOME takeoff tracktion, the car feels different, and more 'stable'.. and fun..
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