[V8] Rear diff weight

[sdewitt at stx.rr.com]

The V8 rear diffs have about 6 different part numbers for the torsen
diff. I suspect that as the model progressed Audi changed the diff bias
slightly resulting in a different part number.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Buchholz, Steven" <Steven.Buchholz at kla-tencor.com>
Date: Monday, May 9, 2005 4:06 pm
Subject: RE: [V8] Rear diff weight

> ... I do not believe this is borne out by TFA ... at least not on the
> 3.6 liter models.  I don't remember the codes, but the MT rear diff is
> the same code as that for the 4.2 automatics ... the 3.6 automatic 
> reardiff is a different code.  
> 
> Note, I'm not talking about FDRs ... as far as I understand they 
> are all
> 4.11:1 independent of the code ... 
> 
> Steve B
> San Jose, CA (USA)
> > 
> > IIRC the rear diff is the same for Auto and manual cars....
> 
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