What are the problems they complain about? I've heard of guys complaining that with both wheels spinning in a FWD car due to an LSD, that it feels like it sucks the car away from the direction one wants to travel in a turn. The viscous coupling unit in CSX 42 certainly does that, but getting off the gas is a quick solution.
They complain if one wheel is off the ground it acts like an open diff.
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Randy
"This time, you actually lift a tire off of the ground, maybe while traversing a ditch. As we said above, a tire in the air can support zero torque, and zero multiplied by 4.5 still equals zero. But here, you can apply a little bit of pressure to the brake pedal, so you generate a brake load of, say, 100 lb-ft. The Torsen works off of the brake load just like it would a traction load, and then Scenario 4 is essentially repeated. This time, though, because you have your foot on the brake, you’re not as likely to spin up the low-traction tire."
https://torsen.com/ask-torsen-torque...nal-questions/
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715 pounds is about 987 USD right now. I may seriously consider buying one or two of these in the very near future now.Good morning Craig,
Thank you for your enquiry.
We do have QDF3I in stock and can be bought individually at £715 plus shipping.
If you would like to proceed with an order please can you provide me with the following information; full name/company name, invoice/delivery address, VAT number (if applicable) and your telephone number.
If you have any questions or if I can be of any further assistance, please don't hesitate to contact me.
Kind regards
Quaife Sales Team
1994 Shadow Sedan. 2.2 N/A, A568 400,000 miles. "the science experiment"
1987 Shelby CSX #418. Long term rebuild and restore ?
So why would they tell a company a different story? Doesn't make sense. I will inquire, too, because I need one for an A568 and I don't want to make a hybrid transmission out of it to run an LSD.
Never mind...you looked up one for the T350/A520/A523/A543...won't work for me...
Because when both wheels start spinning, you understeer like the thing is on ice. Been there, done that, have the skid marks in my pants to prove it! LOL Just like you found...get off the gas, reduce the steering angle, traction comes back and you can control the car again. The other thing is that they tend to go where they are pointed, and if the car is set up for autocross (or just quick turn-in in general), ANY little bump or crown in the road WILL cause you to go an unexpected direction if you aren't prepared. Quite a number of SRT-4's met the ditch because of this.
Our Traction² Units were similar to the Eaton TrueTrac helical design. They have several videos on their site which help their customers understand how they worked. Some of the questions in this thread might be answered by watching them.
https://www.eaton.com/us/en-us/catal...ferential.html
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So, I JUST got a reply from Quaife regarding the A555/A568 QDF16B differential:
"This part is a is not stocked by Quaife as it is made to order product.
The price is given on application and is subject to minimum order quantity.
A 50% deposit is also required at the time of booking, with final payment due when production is completed"
Emphasis is mine. So...it looks like this part will never be made again.
sad to hear ,
though it makes me feel a little better about "the investment" sitting in the basement...now
Can’t expect a company to keep producing a part that is slow to sell or doesn’t sell just because someone might want it in 5 years.
Buy it when you see it, because it may be gone tomorrow. If you can’t afford it, find another hobby because playing with cars s expensive.
For the minor strength difference that most here (more like everyone probably) will never realize there is no reason to pass up using the T350/523 based units.
1994 Shadow Sedan. 2.2 N/A, A568 400,000 miles. "the science experiment"
1987 Shelby CSX #418. Long term rebuild and restore ?
Partly, yes, but I think most just have this misconception that the "lesser" transmissions aren't as durable. The gearing of the 3.85 transmissions isn't all that great, honestly. Too low for a good launch, and makes the 8V engines rev too high for highway cruising. For heavy cars (which my application undoubtedly will be one of the most dense TM's out there when it's done) it makes sense. The van transmissions also had an extra low 1st gear, making them practically useless for anything but that application (from memory here). Also, people forget that there is gearing option that is in between...the 3.77. It's not nearly as common as the 3.50, especially in the 4-banger applications, but it DOES exist.
Not to mention the fact that the 3.77 FD came with the gearset which is nearly as coarse as the Getrag units. Honestly, I think they came in the vast majority of Shadow America and the like in the last 3 years of the run. Of course, finding them these days is getting rough.
http://minimopar.knizefamily.net/transmanual.html
looks to me as the 555 & 568 have the least bite in first gear..with a 3o - ish ratio
but I question the list shown here as I've seen two first gear ratios posted for the 555's.. somewhere else
maybe for early vs late 555's (?)
something maybe like a 3;29 ..and 3:30 - something ..ish?
I think that might have been the article I read comparing my 688 trans to it - with a 3:69 first /4:08 fd
I remember first with my 305 fd 525 trans didn't go much further than one . one and a half lanes across an intersection before second had to happen
L body . MP lm .. tap gas to bring rpm's up to 3500 twice as I count off the three second light change over ..that brings boost in manifold up to 10-ish pounds ..in the third second ,as the light goes green, slip out clutch..BFG euro ta tires go scuff scuff grab.. car ..is gone
..well gone ..if you were sitting in the 5.0 mustang next to me...
a stock 5.0 mustang could never beat that off the line or catch it before 100mph..
and strength of transmissions means absolutely nothing with 50 000 miles and a sloppy set of bearings..at that point they're all becoming time delay grenades
that and the single weakest part is the same to all..the little bolts holding the forks to the internal rods
they thread into the fork and a bullet like tip pokes into the hole drilled in the
rod..
which is fine .. until you break the tip off the bolt..then you get a cracked case as it goes through to the diff section
those little bolts need replaced with full length thread bolts and the forks & rods need to be thread taped as one..then if the bolt breaks ..that's all that happens..
I did that to a 555
my power shifts were maybe a little extreme.. step on clutch only enough to pull it out of gear.. SLAM it into second or third hard enough the trans sounds like a hammer & anvil .. or a shotgun.. and .. no engine speed flail..
so, ..yeah .. those little bolts ain't strong enough for THAT...
The 523 came in a 3.85 final drive for 90-91. As well as the more popular 3.50 when hybrid transmissions were all the thing to have.
3.77 units (everything 92 and later, except 568) are by far the most common because they were made for almost 4 years. They were made as a one size fits all compromise by lowering the highway revs but offsetting the lost off the line pull by putting in a lower first gear going from 3:1 that everything used up until 1991 and switched to 3.31:1 for 1992 when the 3.77 came out.
Good fix for a heavier car, totally out of place in a lightweight P body. The irony being a Shadow/Sundance was probably where a majority of them ended up.
Last edited by 135sohc; 04-10-2021 at 09:38 PM.
1994 Shadow Sedan. 2.2 N/A, A568 400,000 miles. "the science experiment"
1987 Shelby CSX #418. Long term rebuild and restore ?
The vans got a unique gearset in that 1st was a lower ration (higher numerically). Also, even though they were A555/A568 with a 3.85 FD, they had 2-pinion diffs. Now, it's been a while since I've messed with these, so I might be getting something wrong, but I know for fact I have seen a van transmission with a different 1st gear, and I have seen a 3.85FD with a 2-pinion diff (still had a 4-pinion housing IIRC).
Well, that's where a positive stop shifter comes into play Too bad they are only for the 3-plane transmissions. But the idea wouldn't be hard to adapt to a 4-plane.
I *could* be wrong, but I am fairly sure that 3.77 started in '91 in the A543 (only in that trans for that year).