Guys
Two years ago, my tranny in my scirocco self destructed. Well not really, but when the tranny was built by a well known VW race shop down south they used five of the special bolts and nuts to hold the ring gear to the Quaife and one "normal" bolt and nut. The "normal" bolt and nut backed off and fell out taking a nice trip through the ring gear and the rest of the tranny during qualifying. When I came back into the pits I drained the gear oil and it was like watching Terminator 2 (can you say liquid metal?)run out of the drain hole. I had a spare tranny that I ran to finish the weekend and the following week tore down the offending tranny. I spoke with the owner of Quaife America (Roy) and sent the Quaife to them for "cleaning and inspection". They returned it to me throughly cleaned with no problems found. Roy told me on the phone that only two things will damage a Quaife diff, running over 650hp through it or running with no gear oil at all. That same Quaife is still in my car to this day.
I still prefer to run a welded spider gear diff, but my current car was set up with softer suspension for the Quaife so that is what I have.
cheers
dave parker
WDCR HP#97
"Ignore All Confrontations With Common Sense."
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