Re: Velocity's limited slip diff?

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

<x-charset iso-8859-1>The Velocity kit is supposed raise the breakaway torque to around 80 ft-lbs,
not 80 percent.  (Factory "mini-slip" torque is almost negligible at
anywhere from 3 to 7 ft-lbs.)

It is totally incorrect to talk about the breakaway torque in percent unless
you say (or everyone understands) what it is a percent of.  In terms of
torque, the Velocity kit breakaway torque might amount to 5% using 1600
ft-lbs of torque at the front wheels in 1st gear as an example.

I have one installed and don't find it to be particularly impressive or
useful under high power applications.

Wishing I had a Quaife again,
Bradley
'86 S16V 2.0 "T"
http://effervescent.com/vw/

- --- Shawn C Meze <skerocdriver@juno.com> wrote:
>
> Basically it adds more preload to the diff. Instead
> of 20% it bumps it up
> to 80% which helps keep the diff sort of locked (AKA
> breakaway torque).
> Works great when it works. Sucks when it comes apart
> and tears shit up.
>


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