FTO Drivers Club, Western Australia

RichardH · Joined: 27 Jan 2003 Posts: 804

No traction, mostly! Wink

Couldn't get better than 15.2 this time. Pathetic, hehe.

- Rich

vlad · Joined: 23 May 2003 Posts: 182

Pathetic Richard!

Should give it another try on Friday Wink

Who else went?

RichardH · Joined: 27 Jan 2003 Posts: 804

I was surprised at the difference the slippery diff made to the feel of the launch. Whereas I'd expected it to be easier to hook up, I ended up having difficulty telling if I had one wheel hooked up or two.

With the dodgy old open diff, it was easy. If you were free-revving and not going anywhere, you'd screwed it up and needed to act quickly, back off the throttle and get some traction.

With the LSD though, it was more challenging. One side would be driving me forward, I'd be accelerating, the revs would be rising along with my speed, but I was still (apparently) spinning the other wheel. I'd not really noticed that before. Need lots more time to get the hang of it.

But... seeing as I do sod-all quarter mile runs a year, I guess it's not surprising really!!

- Rich

vlad · Joined: 23 May 2003 Posts: 182

I need to get some slicks.

I got a better time with the diff then on Confused

SG · Joined: 26 Jun 2005 Posts: 26

richard which version of lsd do you have?

vlad · Joined: 23 May 2003 Posts: 182

He has the Evo 3 LSD.

I thought you would get pretty good times with that and you got nice sticky tyres.

SG · Joined: 26 Jun 2005 Posts: 26

im just thinkin why the wheels should both be spinning equally instead of one spinning slower or faster than the other but both getting power

maybe thats why cusco has 2 types of lsd.. rs and mz
http://www.cusco.co.jp/english/e_lsd.html

the mz is supposedly the drag edition which has better locking for both wheels on accel, compared to the rs which absorbs the initial take off torque with the springs... or something like that

vlad · Joined: 23 May 2003 Posts: 182

The cusco RS is the racing spec and costs about $200 more than the MZ.

I have the RS version and its suppose to lock both wheels when you press the acceleration.

SG · Joined: 26 Jun 2005 Posts: 26

i think both are racing versions... but the MZ is the strip model cos it says that in brackets on my receipt
the cusco page just says the initial torque is different compared to the two..

http://www.jscspeed.com/wrx/wrx_base.html?/wrx/clutch/cusco_lsd.htm

SG · Joined: 26 Jun 2005 Posts: 26

ah, ignore the above post.. says it all here.. Razz

http://www.driftworks.co.uk/forum/archive/index.php/t-1037.html

MZ is cheaper, but harsher and locks faster...but also cant go aslong between overhauls as the RS

still reckon the MZ might be the one to use for the strip though