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Old 08-19-2004, 11:29 PM
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xmoddrifter: does your car lag alot on launches? i think you have excessive gear play involved too... you might want to stick to a gear type lsd for a 2wd xmod so you dont get that slip and lag.

lancer11: LSD is, Limited Slip DIfferential, basically an lsd tries to keep both drive wheels spinning at the same speed or at a limited difference, hence the name limited slip differential. why would you want this?
-first you want to know why we have differentials.. basically when you turn the inside wheel turns slower then the outside. if you had no diff just a solid axle youd have alot of wheel hop and would find it hard to turn... if it snows where you live u'll find urself sideways into trees and such too... most street cars are equipped with open differentials. basically free gear diffs.. open diff does have its disadvantages...
-if you notice on cars not equipped with lsd, open diff the inside tire wants to spin from loss of traction due to the weight being shifted to he outside tire.. this usually gets you scrubbing tire and really messing up track time. drag racing and burnouts youll notice your car will want to leave only one tiremark..
-why not just have no diff and go locked? its really a pain to drive around with a locked (usually welded) differential. car vibrates and wheel hop. u'll notice in xmods the car will corner very unpridictably... and so lsd's bridges the gap.
there are different types of lsd's as well.. viscous, helical, clutch and so on... which in almost all cases will cost you a pretty penny... good ones usually run about 1k. they all pretty much have the same purpose... prevent pegleg burnouts and diffing out.
-if you want to take it to extremes, drifters use lsds to keep both rear wheels spinning and to keep slides going... (with open diff. all you are doing is dragging one wheel and burning the other....) (goddamit i want the 1.5 way kaaz unit!!! >__<. ill stop ranting now)
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