Originally posted by ferrealb16
do you know how to read? i gave him the ups and downs of straight face gears. i also told him if his synchros are worn, he can have them bronze faced, which would save him from the cost of buying new gears. instead of reading what you want to hear, why dont you read what i write?
I read your entire post. On the planet Earth however, it is possible to replace the syncros in a transmission without replacing the gears.
and you are wrong again. quiafe makes an all gear lsd, torsen makes an all gear lsd. have you sat down with someone who has been building race cars, nitro draggers, alchohol boats, and tear open a quiafe lsd? probably not, but i have. it is a torsen type II lsd. open it up, open up a torsen lsd and compare...youll see they are just about identical. answer me this, does the quaife use high-helix angle INVEX gears or does it place all the gears on parallel shafts?
Torsen is a brand name owned by Zexel Torsen, Inc. Does Quaife call its differentials Torsen differentials? No, they call them Quaife differentials. I don't care what the internals look like, the fact of the matter is that the only way you can get a Torsen diff is to buy one that was made by Torsen. Observe, from the front page of torsen.com:
Zexel Torsen, Inc. is a part of the global Zexel Torsen business which is majority-held by Robert Bosch Corporation. We design and manufacture the patented TORSENŽ differential. Our differential is found in such vehicles as the Audi quattroŽ and the GM HummerŽ! Click on the following hyperlink to see what other applications our differential supports! Founded in 1984, the company was formed under the name Gleason Power Systems. This was a division of the Gleason Corporation. Gleason Power Systems was acquired in 1989 by Diesel Kiki, who then changed their name to Zexel. We adopted Torsen in the name to better distinguish what our division does as compared to the rest of Zexel Corporation.
a viscous does use "clutch packs" that sit in the viscous fluid. tell me what a viscous coupling is please..please explain this one for our viewers.
viscous differential-the viscous differential takes advantage of the characteristics of a special high-viscosity fluid. the two output shafts are connected to each other with a standard open diff and also through a multi-plate "clutch" with no mechanical contact (but very tight clearances). -Race Car Vehicle Dynamics, section 20.2.
read this book, as i have done. you can find it in your local university library.
Nice use of a quote to prove yourself wrong. The author puts quotes around the word "clutch." This means that he is not in fact referring to the fact that there is a clutch pack in the differential, but that the differential functions similarly to a clutch. Furthermore in that same quote, the author goes on to describe that there is
NO MECHANICAL CONTACT. There is no way for a clutch to function if it does not make mechanical contact.
in fact, i bet you cant even name 7 different types of differentials, but yet your gonna try to school me? you better step back down off your stool before i become enraged and started dropping pages upon pages of knowledge on your uneducated azz.
Oh fine, I'll indulge you on this one...
1. Open
2. Locking
3. Viscous limited slip
4. Helical gearset
5. 1-way clutch pack
6. 1.5-way clutch pack
7. 2-way clutch pack
Oh by the way, this thread is going to stay locked until all of the moderators who feel like it get a chance to properly deconstruct your stupidity and then it will be opened up for you to comment on if you haven't started crying yet. Fucker.