Mini-slip and Velocity limited-slip.

["Bradley Peet" <btpeet@effervescent.com>]

The factory mini-slip and Velocity limited-slip upgrade do NOT provide a
percentage of locking by any stretch of the imagination.  To call it 3% to
5% or 40% to 60% (etcetera) is really inaccurate and misleading.

They both provide a static amount of "breakaway torque" that must be
overcome for the wheels to turn at different rates.  The stock system might
be in the neighborhood of 5 ft-lbs.  As far as I know, Velocity is only
selling one version of their kit now which they say offers about 80 ft-lbs
of breakaway torque.

My $.02 is that the factory mini-slip is worthless and the Velocity kit
*might* actually be worth the $99 it costs, but not much more.  It's
certainly no Quaife.

Bradley
1986 S16V 2.0l http://effervescent.com/vw/
Get your Quaife for $835 NOW before time runs out.
http://effervescent.com/vw/quaife.html

>From: Chris Coracini <Coracin@usdl.com>
>To: "'scirocco-l@scirocco.org'"
>Subject: RE: [16v] Mini-Slip Diff. Worthless?
>Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 09:42:57 -0500
>
>i have one too.  the stock little-slip diff is just a 3% to 5% lock.  it
>wasn't meant to be a limited slip diff.  i forgot what it's original
>design purpose was. something about vibration when turning or torque
>steer or neither one....  when i first got my 2H, i could not turn one
>wheel with the other on the ground, and it would be very hard to turn
>with the lug wrench.  now, however, i can turn it with both hands,
>although i still feel some resistance.  velocity has a stage 1 and stage
>2 kit for the little-slip that has 40% lock (more?  60%? not sure of
>stage 1) and 80% lock (stage 2).  but a stock little-slip is not really
>worth anything.


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