A bit of a report on the Autotech LSD...

We ended up purchasing a Wavetrac diff instead of fixing the shop Quaife.

It is definitely heavier than the Quaife, although I didn't weigh to see how
much.
Once in the car and driving, it seems to "skate" to the outside of the corner
way too easily. With my old Peloquin setup, it was pretty obvious that it's a
torque biasing differential and it would pull you into the corner on application
of power.
The wavetrac almost does the opposite, or let's say how the Pelowuin acted in
wet, slippery weather.
What I sometimes forget is that I have a lot more power now, but it just seems
way way too easy to "skate" out to the outside of the corner when I roll onto
the gas.
The diff itself is adjustable, however adjusting it voids the warranty, so I've
emailed Autotech to see what they have to say...

Here is some eye candy from a hillclimb in may. I think you can see in the
video how the car darts back and forth at the exit of every corner as I roll
onto the gas and then I back off to get it back in line:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcS_7rqTN60

Sead
'80 SM Scirocco 1.8t

--- In vwautox@yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Zimmer" <gzimmer@...> wrote:
>
> Yes,
> It appears Autotech is now selling their own LSD that looks exactly like a
quaife, but promises to be better in an unloaded tire situation, and is cheaper
to boot...
>
> GZ
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Matthew Yip
> To: vwautox@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 12:01 PM
> Subject: Re: Damaged Quaife
>
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> However, Autotech is no longer the official importer for Quaife into the US.
That's now Motivicity in MI. Don't know if that would make any difference
though.
>
> Matthew
>
> ________________________________
> From: rich windberg <rich@...>
> To: vwautox@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 12:45:05 PM
> Subject: Re: Damaged Quaife
>
> It has a warranty to the original owner with purchase receipt.
> I've been through this with Autotech, the importer and warranty shop,
> when I lost my original receipt. They have records of every Quaife
> they sold. They even have the record of the first one I bought some
> 18 years ago and who I purchased it through. It's worth a phone call
> though.
>
> R
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> At 8:11 AM +0000 10/28/08, skerocdriver@ juno.com wrote:
> >its got a lifetime warranty, send it back.
> >
> >-- "seadspictures" <<mailto:scracing% 40gmail.com>scracing@gmail. com>
wrote:
> >A spare O2A tranny was pulled apart at the shop, and at everyone's
> >disbelief, it had a Quaife in it.
> >When we disaassembled the quaife, we found some interesting wear that
> >you can see at the following link:
> ><http://s120. photobucket. com/albums/ o174/Sead79/ Quaife>http://s120.
photobucket. com/albums/ o174/Sead79/ Quaife
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> >What do you all make of this? Richard (shop owner)seems to think it
> >was a circle track car cause the damage seemed to be on one side only.
> >Is this even useable and can these little gears just be replaced?
> >
> >Sead
> >'80 SM Scirocco
> >
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