hey

wanting to change an n/a open diff to hopefully an LSD

any advice? the reason is to get both wheels spinning (obviously)

what should I do? LSD or spool?

what are the practicalities of and LSD compared to a spool?

n the cost?

any help would be much appreciated, thanx

mikeyboy

Go the LSD, a spool would make it a pig to drive on the street.

spools are for thrashing your car,lsd is for normal driving.

they both have their place,you just need to decide what you want from the car

Spool diffs can be quite dangerous if you don't really know what you are doing. For instance when using a spool diff and the car breaks traction and becomes sideways, IF you lift of the throttle too much the car will SNAP (and I mean snap viciously) hard back the other way (kinda like a tank slapper) I have been around motor racing my entire life and have seen so many cars hit the outside wall at STOP GO at the old Amaroo Park raceway (R.I.P) when cars with spool diffs would snap back when the driver lifted on oversteer. Also a spool diff places massive stresses on the diff housing and mounts, driveshaft ETC.

I almost had this happen to myself at Wakefield park a few months ago. My fathers and my new race car has a spool diff that we are in the process of replacing with a proper clutch plate LSD, similar to the XR6T diff.

In my opinion, do yourself a favour and go the LSD.

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ez2cme had an LSD put in by Mal Wood when he had his NA. Made a huge improvement to the car.

I did the same thing to my NA when I had it. Stuck an LSD in it and its so much better with one. I got mine from and installed by Mal Woods. Have a chat to him and he'll be able to send you in the right direction.

I did the same thing to my NA when I had it. Stuck an LSD in it and its so much better with one. I got mine from and installed by Mal Woods. Have a chat to him and he'll be able to send you in the right direction.

do you happen to remember roughly how much it will cost?

thanx for the help neways mate cheers

From memory it was about the $1000 mark but that was over a year ago now so prices could have changed.