[Shotimes] When did we last discuss 3.4 > MTX?

[Ian Fisher]

Some of what you are describing sounds like halfshaft/CV joint
problems..

Ian


-----Original Message-----
From: Josh [mailto:someone@microsoft.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 2:03 PM
To: Ian Fisher; '_SHOTIMES II'
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] When did we last discuss 3.4 > MTX?


> Not sure, but their Quaife is half the cost of ours. Problem solved. 
> :)
>
> Actually, my housemate has a 98.5 CSVT and always gives me a blank 
> look when I mention diff problems. He's pretty well read on them as 
> well, as he is a member of CEG and goes to meets every once in 
> awhile..

Quaifes are mandatory on a CSVT if you ever drive them hard.  Their
diffs are so weak that they'll fall apart if you look at them weird.
Apparently a little wheel hop and they'll snap - and we thought we had
diff problems!  I saw it happen to a guy running a stock CSVT at the
track - just a minor amount of wheel hop off the line, then nothing.  It
was dead.  I talked to a couple CSVT guys that have had Quaifes
installed in their cars.  They said that the guy that installed their
Quaifes had also done it to a few SHOs, and said the SHO diff is a much
stronger, better-built piece.

It does appear that Ford may have fixed the problem for the '00 CSVTs,
as this is the same year the Focus was introduced over here, which uses
the exact same trans.  There's a lot of abused and modded Foci out
there, and no one has had a problem with their diffs, and neither has
any 00 CSVT guys that I know of.  The friend of mine that owns a '00
CSVT autocrosses, drag races, and drives it hard on the street and
hasn't had any diff problems - he knocks on wood every day!

I am pretty sure the newer MTX-75s could handle the power of the V8 as
long as you went through them and replaced what you could with stronger
parts and installed a quaife.

Josh Salaets
95 SHO MTX (See it here: www.cardomain.com/id/sh0gun)
85 Omni GLH-T (Autocrosser)
Eugene, OR