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RE: Phantom Grip LSD

To: "FOT \(E-mail\)" <fot@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: Phantom Grip LSD
From: "Joe Siam" <jsiam1@earthlink.net>
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 16:29:38 -0700
Jerry Alford from Union Jacs had one in his Spitfire at California Speedway.
He said it worked good.  He is also sells them.  unionjacs@aol.com     Joe
Siam

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-fot@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-fot@autox.team.net]On
Behalf Of Tom Strange
Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2002 1:23 PM
To: Bob Kramer; Henry Frye; Bill Babcock
Cc: fot@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Phantom Grip LSD


Too good to be true is about it.... I am about to order a set, if anyone can
give me any good feedback on it.... they have plenty of pics & testamonials
on their page, but ... do we know of anyone using this thing.... 299 for the
spit, with the gold springs reccommended...
  Anyone have ANY first... or for that matter second or third hand info on
these?????????

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Kramer" <rgk@flash.net>
To: "Henry Frye" <thefryes@iconn.net>; "Bill Babcock" <BillB@bnj.com>
Cc: <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2002 11:56 AM
Subject: Re: Phantom Grip LSD


> Henry,
> I called the manufacturer, and a couple of the sellers listed on their web
> page, and their staffs weren't much help in explaining how it works. One
> gave me a url for a Mopar tech page which I posted to the list, and in
there
> they discuss grinding the Mopar spider gears flat for a better surface for
> the Phantom Grip to push on. They sell different springs, with Gold being
> stiffer than the green they list for the TR series, so it's tune-able. It
> looks like a pretty simple deal, with the plates spinning up and releasing
> whenever a wheel slips. What I can't tell is if the plates are pressed
> outward with centrifugal force onto the spider gears to lock each side of
> the diff. or the spinning overcomes the spring tension and releases
pressure
> on the spider gears which somehow locks it.  I hope somebody comes up with
> an explanation. The price and the function seems to good to be true.
> Bob
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Henry Frye" <thefryes@iconn.net>
> To: "Bill Babcock" <BillB@bnj.com>
> Cc: <fot@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 11:25 AM
> Subject: RE: Phantom Grip LSD
>
>
> > Bill,
> >
> > I thought it was me! I feel much better now, I thought the exact same
> > thing... I haven't a clue how this thing is supposed to do the job.
> >
> > ;-)
> >
> > At 08:58 AM 9/12/2002 -0700, Bill Babcock wrote:
> > >Does anyone have any idea how these things work? First, what's the
> > >theory--I can't tell what it's supposed to do by looking at the
pictures.
> > >Second--do they work, and how long.
> > >
> > >For what I see in the assembly picture, $270 looks like a lot of money.
> > >Two blocks with springs between them? But it'd be cheap if they worked
> > >well and lasted.

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