[s-cars] V8 Torsen Diffs

[Mark Strangways]

The speed limit thing is easily bypassed, though I have yet to do it.

Mark
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Pizzimenti" <joe.pizzimenti at gmail.com>
To: "Mark Strangways" <Strangconst at rogers.com>
Cc: "Igor Kessel" <KBATPO at comcast.net>; "s-cars" <s-car-list at audifans.com>; 
"Robert Rossato" <r0ssat0_987 at att.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005 11:34 AM
Subject: Re: [s-cars] V8 Torsen Diffs


> The torsen works all the time, even above 25mph!
>
> Get rid of the locker and go for a torsen.
>
>
> On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 11:22:52 -0500, Mark Strangways
> <Strangconst at rogers.com> wrote:
>> Is  there no available parts (used) in NA for these. Why go overseas ?
>> BTW, my post kinda read like I need to know why we where doing them, my 
>> bad.
>> I know why we where doing them, just want to know what gets changed, the
>> entire diff unit, or the guts inside.
>>
>> How does the torsen compare to the locker I have in my 92 ?
>>
>> Mark S
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Igor Kessel" <KBATPO at comcast.net>
>> To: "Mark Strangways" <Strangconst at rogers.com>
>> Cc: "s-cars" <s-car-list at audifans.com>; "Robert Rossato"
>> <r0ssat0_987 at att.net>
>> Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005 11:13 AM
>> Subject: Re: [s-cars] V8 Torsen Diffs
>>
>> > Mark Strangways wrote:
>> >> So what is the idea behind the torsen mod.
>> >> Do we go out and find a V8, jack up the back and pull the diff.
>> >> Or do we take the innards out for a transplant to the housing in the 
>> >> //S
>> >> ?
>> >>
>> >> Mark (wishing I was in South Fn, Carolina) S
>> >>
>> >
>> > Mark,
>> > The idea is to stop sliding about in the snow "like $hit in the 
>> > ice-hole"
>> > (a Russian idiom) in the post 1995.5 cars equipped with the EDL joke.
>> >
>> > Yesterday I had a lot of fun in the snow. For the first time my 1997 
>> > would
>> > go like a proverbial train on rails without wiggling its ass like a 
>> > fish
>> > in the creek after I mash the pedal to the floor in the 3rd gear in a
>> > sweeping right-hander.
>> >
>> > Money well spent. My most sincere gratitude goes to Bob Pastore who not
>> > only researched this wonderful solution for our cars, but who also
>> > arranged a reasonably priced group buy of those differentials from
>> > Germany.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Igor Kessel
>> > two turbo quattros
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