[Shotimes] Welded Spider Gear?

[Ron Porter]

Don't know if you saw Monster Garage the other day, but they turned a cherry
El Camino SS into a Figure-8 racer. They welded the diff on that car. When
Jesse tried it out in the parking lot, there was a lot of tire smoke of
every turn!!

It also appears that the quickest way around a tight Figure-8 track is a
sliding turn, so the locked diff is fine.

IMHO, RWD race cars can probably get away with it, as dragging/spinning the
inside wheel is probably no BFD. With FWD, though, a spinning inside wheel
also has an effect on steering. It would probably also be a real bear to
wrestle around a corner!

Ron Porter

-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Jim Heaton
Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2003 2:25 PM
To: SHOTimes
Subject: [Shotimes] Welded Spider Gear?


This reminds me. A buddy of mine used to race Datsuns 
and got better performance by welding the spider gear 
for a poor mans posi.

Does that work for FWD? Anyone tried it on a track 
car? Kind of a poor-man's Quaffie

-Jim

>The pinion shafts THEMSELVES can/will gall on the
>spider gears, and break themselves (I remember seeing

>sergio's at the 99 convention, looked like somebody 
>had put it on a lathe and milled out .100" off the 
>center!) where it broke. 


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