Has anyone installed an aftermarket limited slip differential ?

I don't feel very comfortably with the torsen. If there are experiences with the spoon or any aftermarket product, i would be interested.

regards

Walter

 

Most the people that have swapped out have gone with Kaaz. I have a Kaaz, it's a clutched LSD. I don't feel a difference from the Torsen...I went with the Kaaz after destroying the OEM differential.

 

I guess it varies. I took off the stock TORSEN from my twin turbo rx-7 (http://www.efini.net) and replaced it with a mazdaspeed selective LSD (so its variable 1 way, 1.5 or 2 way). Its absolutely undrivable. You have to live with the cluncking, chatter and thats after I broke it in too. All in all it was the worst thing I did to my car. I talked to several people, it seems the only benefit is for drag racers. The TORSEN can't stand to the abuse of high rpm launches, so a clutch type (instead of worm gear) LSD is needed. But its the very same benefit of friction plates is what makes it unacceptable (atleast to me) on the street and in traffic.

cheers

W

 

A good clutch-based LSD can be a benefit in racing venues other than drag.

Our Torsen diffs behave as though they were open diffs when one wheel becomes unloaded. This is part of the source of the dreaded
"inside rear wheelspin" problem so many autocrossers have. In that environment it is mainly just a nuisance that has to be worked around. However in a real road course where it's possible for both inside tires to have moments in the air (such as coming off a sharp apex curb), if that inside wheel is allowed to spin up to a speed sufficiently greater than the one still on the ground, it can lead to driveline soup upon landing.

For this same reason, you can't bicycle a car with a Tosen diff.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by jzr
[B]For this same reason, you can't bicycle a car with a Tosen diff.

 

You know, drive on two wheels (same side).

 

What do you guys think of the Mugen LSD? This's what it said on the King M/S site,

"After two years of development, Mugen introduces their LSD for the S2000. This clutch pack 2-way LSD is much stronger than the factory LSD eliminating breakage problems so common with the S2000. 100% bolt in"

I was thinking about this, Comptech reinforced rear end housing & J's final gear installed all at once.