welding fwd differential

Was told the same 65% for rally guys when I mentioned mine was set at 100%. That seems weird to me but I am no expert.

Just took it apart last weekend and cleaned it all and put it back together so I am more confident in it's assembly gotta put box back in car now.


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> > That statement really gets my attention and I
> note
> > no one challenged it. I'm choosing a diff
> for my
> > G60 Rabbit 02a, and KAAZ was prettymuch on
> top the
> > list. But this is a non-street-legal,
> dirt-only
> > RX car. If it's true that off pavement a
> plate
> > diff is indistiguishable from welded, why not
> go
> > welded? Even better, why not go with a race
> > spool, cheaper than a plate diff, and
> strongest of
> > all options?
> >
> > I know on tarmac I'd hate it. But that's not
> part
> > of the plan.
> >
> > Thanx, Bill
> >
>
> Welded, or very tight clutch diffs are going to
> work best a higher speeds. In low-speed stuff like
> RX, you'll want something that allows more of a
> speed differential between left and right wheels.
> If you back it into every corner, welded might
> work, but in RX, you often don't have the speed
> you need to get the tail going where you want it.
>
> When I set up my KAAZ Mazda3 diff, Ray at KAAZ
> said most of the VW rally guys running his diff
> set it up with only 2/3 of the clutch plates
> active. I suspect this would behave differently
> from a spool, especially at low speeds.
>
> -Dave
>

eyesoreracing Wrote:

> Welded, or very tight clutch diffs are going to
> work best a higher speeds. In low-speed stuff like
> RX, you'll want something that allows more of a
> speed differential between left and right wheels.
> If you back it into every corner, welded might
> work, but in RX, you often don't have the speed
> you need to get the tail going where you want it.

Weldes are awesome for *certain types* of RX. You just spin the steering wheel, tromp the go pedal and the car goes.

You can't flick the car around, but you don't *need* to.

Notice: This opinion borne of experience driving a GLH on Bridgestone mud tires in conditions that warranted Bridgestone mud tires. This may not hold true with cars with suspensions more complex than slinkies and screen door return shocks, held in place by tinkertoy linkage.

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Pete Remner
Cleveland, Ohio

1984 RX-7 (rallycross thing)
1978
Silence is golden, but duct tape is silver.

All I've got to say is if you can't get a FWD car with a welded diff to turn (even in slow corners) then you ain't driving it right.

I decided what the hell and welded the diff in my Jetta RallyCross car last year- I wanted to try it for myself. I don't know if I like it or not yet cause it's sooo different. Fast flowing courses have me literally laughing out loud when I get to the finishline cause it's not only faster, it feels faster and holy shit will it dig out of the corner. Tight turns, tight courses, and driving it slow at all, wow- what a work out. Power steering would be nice. typically I guess the thing eats CV axles at a much faster rate.

I wanna plate diff and will get one soon.. it's about the $ always going to something else.

I have a queef in my road-race rabbit and it's great....on pavement.