Drivetrain Installing LSD
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Installing LSD
Can anyone chime in here who has actually installed a LSD into their R53. I have one to install and just need a heads up on some of the key points (need to drop engine and tranny or just tranny) and time needed for the install. Any suggestions would be welcome.
I will be somewhat of a guinea pig as I have the Torsen from the Ford SVT that will be installed.
I will be somewhat of a guinea pig as I have the Torsen from the Ford SVT that will be installed.
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Plenty of people have done the install. It's basically the same as doing a clutch except once you get the tranny out you have to open that up to. It is not a well established fact yet, but most people agree that the SVT focus LSD is the same as the one in the MINI. Which is good, the Torsen is 2/3 the price of the Quaife but probably a nicer unit then the OBX.
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K-huevo has a very well documented thread here on NAM of his quaife lsd install. Use the search drop down function at top right of NAM.
Here's my experience of a lsd/clutch install: https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...h-and-cam.html
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Here's my experience of a lsd/clutch install: https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...h-and-cam.html
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Indeed that is the one you want. I recently found buried on the Torsen site they actually say that is the one you want to use in the MINI (in the FSAE section under "Can I get a T2 for an FSAE car?").
I have one going in my car as well. I think that makes 3 on NAM in 30 days or something.
I have one going in my car as well. I think that makes 3 on NAM in 30 days or something.
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Can anyone chime in here who has actually installed a LSD into their R53. I have one to install and just need a heads up on some of the key points (need to drop engine and tranny or just tranny) and time needed for the install. Any suggestions would be welcome.
I will be somewhat of a guinea pig as I have the Torsen from the Ford SVT that will be installed.
I will be somewhat of a guinea pig as I have the Torsen from the Ford SVT that will be installed.
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i dont know if you can get the factory outside a wrecked car. Running the Torsen would put you in a different class at it is a gear type diff whereas the OEM uses cone clutches. Technically that should also put the likes of OS Giken and Cusco off limits for stock as those use plate clutches.
I just installed my Torsen yesterday. I havent bolted the transmission back up but I did pull the old diff and installed the new. I can rotate the input shaft by hand and it feels just like stock. The diff was the exact same size, no need to do any shimming, just grab two bearings from NAPA (it's listed as BR35, made by SKF, $17 a piece where I was). I posted pictures of it in another thread. I'll edit a picture into this post.
I got mine from Tousley ford. PN M-4204-SVTF. http://www.tousleyfordparts.com/part...catalogid=5684
For 650 shipped it was a no brainer getting this instead of the OBX or the Quaife. While I havent heard a report of a broken OBX, Torsen makes excellent stuff, the very good machining on the unit I received further backs that up.
I just installed my Torsen yesterday. I havent bolted the transmission back up but I did pull the old diff and installed the new. I can rotate the input shaft by hand and it feels just like stock. The diff was the exact same size, no need to do any shimming, just grab two bearings from NAPA (it's listed as BR35, made by SKF, $17 a piece where I was). I posted pictures of it in another thread. I'll edit a picture into this post.
I got mine from Tousley ford. PN M-4204-SVTF. http://www.tousleyfordparts.com/part...catalogid=5684
For 650 shipped it was a no brainer getting this instead of the OBX or the Quaife. While I havent heard a report of a broken OBX, Torsen makes excellent stuff, the very good machining on the unit I received further backs that up.
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I agree with Some Guy the Torsen is a great unit, and at 650 it can't be beat for the price. I purchased mine from Tousley Ford. Had it mine for about a month now with no complaints. If anyone in the Dayton or Columbus Ohio area is on the fence about this I'll over them test drive it.
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Here is excellent pictorial story of clutch and transmission removal, and replacement along with installation of Quaife:
http://lyle.smu.edu/rcam/cpm3v/minic...niclutch01.htm
http://lyle.smu.edu/rcam/cpm3v/minic...niclutch01.htm
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Well, you can definitely tell it is a torsen type. When the inside goes really light, it stops working and you feel like you have an open diff. But you only really get that doing something like going over a crest while on the power. So I would say a clutch type diff is probably better, but this will probably get you 80% of the way there for 1/3 the cost.
That said, it completely transforms the car. Much more fun to drive now.
Well, you can definitely tell it is a torsen type. When the inside goes really light, it stops working and you feel like you have an open diff. But you only really get that doing something like going over a crest while on the power. So I would say a clutch type diff is probably better, but this will probably get you 80% of the way there for 1/3 the cost.
That said, it completely transforms the car. Much more fun to drive now.
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@rbaker.
Well, you can definitely tell it is a torsen type. When the inside goes really light, it stops working and you feel like you have an open diff. But you only really get that doing something like going over a crest while on the power. So I would say a clutch type diff is probably better, but this will probably get you 80% of the way there for 1/3 the cost.
That said, it completely transforms the car. Much more fun to drive now.
Well, you can definitely tell it is a torsen type. When the inside goes really light, it stops working and you feel like you have an open diff. But you only really get that doing something like going over a crest while on the power. So I would say a clutch type diff is probably better, but this will probably get you 80% of the way there for 1/3 the cost.
That said, it completely transforms the car. Much more fun to drive now.
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