yeah i may just keep the standard untill i have trouble with it......
graham
Good move Graham. I've only blown up one diff in a 180B rally car, which had had a very harsh life (a bolt head broke off the crownwheel and got caught in the mesh.)
My worked L20B 1600 street car had the stock diff in it for 7 years and about 100,000km of hard driving (including motorkhanas, rallying and track days). Of course if you're going to do burnouts and flat changes, then you can kill any diff.
Depending on what you're doing to it, the standard diff might do you. If it does blow, then replace it with a R180, or if you're feeling cashed up, R200 LSD. I don't think that all R200's are LSD though. I recall seeing open R200's advertised for $250 or so.
There's a recent thread in this forum about welding diffs (titled "locked or not"). It discusses the pros and cons of locked diffs, LSD's, open diffs, etc.
Maybee Warps might want to donate his R160 LSD in his WRX??
buggeroffitsmine
(hmmm wonder how it would go in the track toy??
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