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Originally Posted by Chuck33079
I appreciate the manufacturer chiming in. When you say that "Our Helical LSD is not a chinese clone of the Q****e" are you saying that you did not clone the Quaife diff, or that it's not made in China?
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Both.
We did not "clone" the Q****e. This particular topic has been brought up so much (since 2008 when we started offering our Helical LSD) that we added it to our FAQ:
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With regards to being "Chinese", all of our products are designed and developed from our R&D Facility in the US, but are manufactured through our partner factories in Taiwan. This helps us reduce the end cost "per unit", but we still control the manufacturing and QC from our overseas office, so there is no detriment to quality nor reliability (as many of our customers can attest to). All of the state-of-the-art equipment that is used in manufacturing our parts is all imported from Japan or Europe. Infact, a lot of the equipment you would not even be able to find commercially in the US (as in, walk down to your local machine shop), which means it would cost several times as much for us to have the same parts manufactured over here.
If "not made in a Western Country" is of worry to you, please don't. It is not "where" a part is made, but "who" controls and makes the part. When we designed our differentials, we did take into account other products on the market, and tried to make ours stronger, lighter and machined to better tolerances, as well as more affordable at the same time. We have succeeded with all of our aims.
So much so that you will not find a single "factual" report of a Q****e being stronger/lighter/better tolerance than our product. Infact, a simple search on Google will show you the complete opposite.
The funny thing about Q****e, before we came around, they were the "go to" and "indestructible" lsd. When we starting offering our version of the Torsen in 2008, everyone was like "cheap chinese copy of Q****e" (yet they don't realise that Q****e didn't invent the Helical LSD, Gleason did, so if ours is a copy, so is theirs).
Then people starting pushing 1200whp and the story significantly changed in our favor. Suffice to say, we've never had to "update" our helical lsd due to failure under high hp; the same can't be said for Q****e
