Diff Replacement Options

[GTSBoy]

Don't shim a VLSD. Buy a real LSD. Get a secondhand 1 or 1.5 way OS Giken, Nismo, Cusco, whatever for $700-$800 or a brand new one for ~$1500 or so. Spend the money, enjoy the result.

Don't buy a 2 way if it is exclusively street or you do a lot of street driving, as you will quite possibly learn to hate it. If you drift, then 2 way is the go.

[sydking]

No intrest in drift what to ever - so now to suss out the 1 and 1.5 way options and differances

[GTSBoy]

1 way locks up only under forward drive. 2 way locks up both forward drive and on overrun (which is why they can be bad to drive around on the street with, as they can be too tight and cause chirping, jumping, clunking, judderring, etc, like a welded/spool rear end). 1.5 way is halfway between. The overrun LSD action is much less than on a 2 way.

1 way are quite rare. You seldom see them come up for sale secondhand.

[sydking]

Cheers, 1.5 way it is - Eventually.

[vh45tt]

ive used many diffs, the best one for a skyline was z32 300zx lsd 4:11 from factory and i used that in my r30 vg30det 450rwkw for 3 years, and i drove that thing like i hated it everyday lol. i honestly cant fault them, also r32 and 33 gtr are a reall tough unit out of the box.

[sydking]

any of this have effect on the actaul gear ratios? Also quite confusing finding the corect of the shelf diff for the GTS4.

One would think it would use the same at the std gtst S2

[GTSBoy]

ive used many diffs, the best one for a skyline was z32 300zx lsd 4:11 from factory and i used that in my r30 vg30det 450rwkw for 3 years, and i drove that thing like i hated it everyday lol. i honestly cant fault them, also r32 and 33 gtr are a reall tough unit out of the box.

How easy was it to fit the R230 into a Skyline? AFAIK the Z32 cradle is a somewhat different thing to the R32 cradle (in terms of diff mounts).

[loky]

anyone know a particular shop or someone who supplys after market diffs? i too need an after market diff for the front and a rear ( r32 gtr).......