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RE: Race car or street car?

To: bholland@hayes.ds.adp.com, ambradley@yahoo.com
Subject: RE: Race car or street car?
From: "Andrew Murphy" <solex67@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 11:22:55 -0800
This was the question I put out to my tech buddies: If I purchased a posi 
spool could I just drop it into my 3.7 diff and away I go? Answers came back 
about having to install shims for backlash and other things like the fact 
that the offset on the spool varies and that some can modified with spacers. 
As far as I can tell, it's not as easy as just dropping a posi spool into 
your diff.

I had originally thought a 3.7 LSD would be great as I could get my 
positraction without having to deal with high RPMS at freeway speed. Perhaps 
a 3.9 LSD would be the way to go.

Andrew Murphy
SoCalROC


From: "Brian Hollands" <bholland@hayes.ds.adp.com>
Reply-To: "Brian Hollands" <bholland@hayes.ds.adp.com>
To: "Adam Bradley" <ambradley@yahoo.com>
CC: "Datsun Roadster Mailing list" <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: Race car or street car?
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 14:00:58 -0500

The diff and the ring and pinion are different parts.  You can put a 3.90
ring and pinion onto a limited slip diff.  I currently have one with 4.38
gears and am looking for a 4.11 instead.  The 3.90s are readily available
used as are the 4.38's.  If you want to find out what 4.38's are like on the
highway, just leave it in 4th gear (assuming you've got a 5 spd).  The
overall ratio with 4.38's in 5th gear is 3.72 - almost exactly the same as a
stock 2000 in 4th.
Brian '69 2000
Tampa, FL
http://web.tampabay.rr.com/oilleak/



-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Bradley [mailto:ambradley@yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 1:42 PM
To: Brian Hollands; Andrew Murphy
Cc: Datsun Roadster Mailing list
Subject: RE: Race car or street car?

Was there a 3.9 LSD? (1600 is 3.9)  Would that be a good compromise?

--- Brian Hollands <bholland@hayes.ds.adp.com> wrote:
 > Sounds like you need two roadsters
 >
 > Brian '69 2000
 > Tampa, FL
 > http://web.tampabay.rr.com/oilleak/
 >
 >
 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: owner-datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
 > [mailto:owner-datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Andrew
 > Murphy
 > Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 1:14 PM
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 > Subject: Race car or street car?
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