A limited slip differential is one of the best performance mods you can do to a rwd sports car with an open differential. Installing this differential in my 330i has completely transformed the behavior of the car.
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Fantastic demonstration ! Keep up the hard work! Does you lsd also lockup on deceleration like it does on acceleration ? Makes a difference for drifting
They (wavetrac) claim it does lock up on decel. To me the wavetrac feels like it is not as effective as an aggressive clutch LSD but it is a little better than a standard torque biasing differential.
I dont know if this is the right place for this question but maybe someone can help me here: Im planning on buying a c63 amg w204, and i saw that depending on the year, some have the slip differential and some dont. I m curious exactly how and when it works, mostly for my safety, as i m used to driving powerful cars, but im no pilot and my cars have mostly been 4 wheel drive with basically no risk of slip. I saw that these c63 have a sport handling mode, so im now wondering what happens when i switch that on with and without the differential. Will it let me spin out if i floor it too much? Will it let me have a controlled drift ? What will be the difference between the slip / no slip differential models? What does it change between traction control off and sport handling? Many questions but so few answers 😅
A limited slip differential still allows one wheel to rotate at a slightly different speed to the other. But in an open diff, power from the engine is distributed to both wheels, but when one wheel loses traction, the power is not equally transferred to the other wheel (one with grip), it cancels out. With a limited slip diff, the power is equally distributed to both wheels, even if one loses traction.
I used a wavetrac for this one. I made a video of building the differential assembly up for this specific car. It is in the playlist on my channel page.
Since you use a helical diff, have you ever found yourself in any situations where one of your rear (driven) wheels is lifted off the ground and thus, you are left without any power put down to the ground? What are some examples of such a case? Driving over curbs on a racetrack with stiff suspension?
Yeah with my S2000 in snow/ice or tight corners on track, it will exhibit open differential behavior. The Wavetrac diffs seem to work a little better... but still not great. Everything is a compromise.
I don’t have any actual experience with it but I would say it’s useful when you aren’t hitting top speed anyways to lower the gear ratio for faster acceleration to whichever top speed you will be going but is kinda a bitch to install but it’s definitely worth it
If you go the cheapest way and weld the spider gears together in you're open differential, you'll drift even better than having an lsd. BUT. the axel loses the ability to allow your back wheels to spin at different speeds. So when your making tight turns in a parking lot. Say making a slow hard right turn, you inside rear tire will hop or chirp because It can't spin at a slower speed than the outside tire. It's apparently even worse in reverse.
Yes. The purpose of lsd in drift would be even power across the back, the open diff sends power to the wheel that has less traction ie inner wheel when drifting) and that causes the wheel to spin and the outside wheel to "follow" the car and you are not initiating the drift instead you are just wasting fuel and rubber while not having fun :D
open diff is scary when drifting, the car is far less predictable and more prone to snapping back the other way. with an lsd it keeps the power down and forces the rear end out
Open diff is better for burnout and i will say drifting, with lsd drifing is a little bit harder... with open diff u could drift in any low power car, but with lsd u would not,...
I bought the differntial from a junkyard and then installed a wavetrac inside. Here is a link to the e90 install ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TZWIm2PDpYU.html
make sure to take out the choke before installing that, its going to be alot harder to pull the starter rope and actually get it running, but just push the primer button untill you see the clear bubble fill with fuel and can feel is pumping fuel into the motor, then pull the starter rope again again and it should start up just fine, also i recommend a 50:50 gas oil blend on all civics
they dont add power, but are very helpful if you intend on adding power later. open diff with lots of power = blows 1 tire to bits and barely moves. but with an lsd its gunna hook up a lot quicker. with the same power lsd will pretty always be faster
@@yamaha94O everyone that has ever owned a car ever (and lives in a place where it snows in the winter ..90% of population of earth, i don't care about the u.s.) has goten car stuck in the mud and snow at least once where a limited slip would have goten them out. I'm not gonna buy a shity crosover for 2 months of snow per year.
@@JackobsnN people still do tho. Doesn't matter. Facts are facts and 90% of car buyers will waste their money on an awd crossover for like a max of 30 snowy days. It's sad but true.
@@JackobsnN and I meant spin the tires as in purposely do a burn out. Fun story actually, there was a lady that couldn't get up a hill in a snowstorm in her awd crossover and I blew up that hill in my fwd, lsd 5speed mazdaspeed protege like it was nothing. With shitty all seasons. Lolllll
@@yamaha94O yes facts are facts .... and you live in a big delusion if you think that 90% of the worlds population is driving around in an awd suv. If we were , then i wouldn't have comented in the first place
Keep in mind that it could increase torque steer in FWD cars. There are ofcourse multiple variables, but there's a good chance of increasing it. Eat some spinach before you get in the car, hold the steering wheel like you're Popeye and you'll be fine :P
Shut up already... Either show me a website where i can find a clutch type 2 way for a volvo 1031 axel or leave it... Ive been looking for a year now... Only bullshit helical gear diffs for my axel
