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Redbank Plains,near Ipswi...
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any experience with Borgwarner diffs in KE series corollas
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Sun, 23 May 2004 06:08
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can anyone advise technical details of the australian made borg-warner diffs fitted to come corollas??> i have found one with a LSD in it, and I suspect the centre has come out of something else like a Nissan, but exactly what????
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Montrose, VIC
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May 2002
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Re: any experience with Borgwarner diffs in KE series corollas
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Sun, 23 May 2004 09:13
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Methinks you'll find the entire diff is converted from something else. Take a look at a standard corolla bogwarmer, and you'll probably find that yours looks a fair bit bigger - the original is a tiny, weak, noisy piece of crap 
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Ipswich
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May 2002
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Re: any experience with Borgwarner diffs in KE series corollas
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Sun, 23 May 2004 10:45
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Is it by any chance a BW78 (like an R31, Commodore, Falcon etc)? That is a reasonably common conversion, requiring shortening of diff housing etc but I've seen it done quite a few times...
The original diff is pretty small, 6" crownwheel if I'm not mistaken. I have 2 x Corolla BW diffs and 1 x Jap frontloader Corolla diff, they're all tiny 
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Location:
Montrose, VIC
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May 2002
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Re: any experience with Borgwarner diffs in KE series corollas
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Sun, 23 May 2004 11:44
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Well I've put a BW78 in my car, although ditched the guts of it for a KAAZ LSD shortly afterwards. I've broken 4 corolla bogwarmers, all with a very tired 2TC 
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Ipswich
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May 2002
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Re: any experience with Borgwarner diffs in KE series corollas
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Sun, 23 May 2004 12:49
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You can get KAAZ LSD's for the BW78? What sort of money would something like that pull?
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Location:
Ipswich
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May 2002
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Re: any experience with Borgwarner diffs in KE series corollas
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Sun, 23 May 2004 12:53
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Terry: Another option it could be would be a Scorpion diff, they're apparently the correct width to fit into an early Corolla, just requiring mounts to be redone. They also have discs. However LSD's and good ratios aren't common in them (out of L300 vans).
Apart from those two, I don't know of any "common" BW diff conversions for early Corollas, but it's quite possible that it could be something else I suppose...
It's really hard to get LSD's in a standard Corolla diff (unless LSD stood for Locked Solid Diff  ), the only one I know of is the one that came out of a KP61 Starlet, but they aren't common, especially in Australia. If that's the case, discs could be off just about any car adapted to fit the diff...
Does anyone else know the differences between the BW diffs and how to tell what is what? They all look the same to me...
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Location:
Ipswich
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May 2002
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