With a vce eliminator your not eliminating the weakest link, that being the spider gears in the centre diff. I've had the side gears in the centre diff welded completely to the diff (not just tacked) so it's plenty strong.
mattrat said:
is this do-able for a long term driver, or would best best we north south mount it and do it right? cheers
I drove it for about a year with the locked centre and still 4wd, which puts much more stress on everything.
I did manage to destroy the stock transfer case (split it in half!) however, that was dropping the clutch at the revlimiter - in 2nd - whilst the car was rolling slightly backwards
(it handled plenty of 2nd gear rev limiter drops from stationary or rolling forwards though).
Realistically, unless your being
very silly, there's not really enough grip to break anything :lol:
GVR40 said:
what diffs, and lsds do you have, pm me if you want
Welded centre diff, (v/c unit is in my shed now) and the rear is a plate LSD out of an 88 RS vr4 - 3 bolt axles - and has been shimmed tighter.
The only real downsides (apart from tires) are that it's easy to forget you no longer have masses of grip, which makes pulling out onto busy streets "interesting" and it's much slower over my favourite twisty roads.
and that it is very loose in the wet (as in, it'll step out sideways in 4th if you happen to be turning and hitting full boost at the same time, say for instance - pulling out to pass someone :shock:
