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the exact weight diff between the base and touring is 82lbs.

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Old 08-24-2009, 08:40 PM   #16 (permalink)
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the exact weight diff between the base and touring is 82lbs.
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I have never been one for leather; like the pure sports car feel... r a w. Give me the base; I will switching the seats out anyway....
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I have never been one for leather; like the pure sports car feel... r a w. Give me the base; I will switching the seats out anyway....
And give me an LSD thats worth a shyt! Quaife, hurry your arses up!
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And give me an LSD thats worth a shyt! Quaife, hurry your arses up!
Haven't really heard much about the stock LSD other than a few comments similar to yours. Care to eloborate why you consider it "shyt?"
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Haven't really heard much about the stock LSD other than a few comments similar to yours. Care to eloborate why you consider it "shyt?"
Viscous LSD's are bottom of the line when it comes to LSD's. They lose efficiency the hotter they get and often fail when put under a heavy load. A few people here have had track failures, in particular DD Motorsports track car, check out their lap times at Buttonwillow posts.

Have a read: The viscous lsd is generally simple because it relies on hydrodynamic friction from fluids with high viscosity. Silicone-based oils are often used. Here, a cylindrical chamber of fluid filled with a stack of perforated discs rotates with the normal motion of the output shafts. The inside surface of the chamber is coupled to one of the driveshafts, and the outside coupled to the differential carrier.

Half of the discs are connected to the inner, the other half to the outer, alternating inner/outer in the stack. Differential motion forces the interleaved discs to move through the fluid against each other. In some viscous couplings when speed is maintained the fluid will accumulate heat due to friction. This heat will cause the fluid to expand, and expand the coupler causing the discs to be pulled together resulting in a non-viscous plate to plate friction and a dramatic drop in speed difference. This is known as the hump phenomenon and it allows the side of the coupler to gently lock. In contrast to the mechanical type, the limiting action is much softer and more proportional to the slip, and so is easier to cope with for the average driver.

New Process Gear used a viscous coupling of the Ferguson style in several of their transfer cases including those used in the AMC Eagle.Viscous LSDs are less efficient than mechanical types, that is, they "lose" some power. They do not stand up well to abuse. In particular, any sustained load which overheats the silicone results in sudden permanent loss of the differential effect.[4]They do have the virtue of failing gracefully, reverting to semi-open differential behaviour. Typically a visco-differential that has covered 60,000 miles or more will be functioning largely as an open differential; this is a known weakness of the original Mazda MX-5 (a.k.a. Miata) sports car. The silicone oil is factory sealed in a separate chamber from the gear oil surrounding the rest of the differential. This is not serviceable and when the differential's behaviour deteriorates, the VLSD center is replaced.

Basically a gear driven LSD like a quaife is the best and most reliable. Nissan really screwed the pooch on this one.
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