NICE! I wonder how it will compare with the quafe dif.
--louis
It doesn't... you may compare this beautiful work of art with the ZF Diff. It is basically a copy of it (technically). The Quiafe is a Helical LSD differential. The way the Quife works, it uses worm gears to shift the torque and drive to the wheel that is touching the pavement doing most of the work.
When turning round a left hand bend, the car shifts it weight onto the right hand side, a normal diff would spin the left hand wheel but the Quaife puts the power to the right hand wheel therefore giving you more grip and push through the corner.
This said, a Quaife doesn’t apply torque to both wheels as a LSD with friction discs does. The way this diff works (and naturally the ZF) is that both wheels get driven the same amount and they may brake free through a series of friction discs in a bend in order to compensate for the different wheel speeds of the inner and outer wheel. This can be adjusted by changing the tension on the friction discs.
A car with a ZF LSD will always be faster through the corners on a race track as it will help also when decelerating and braking and when the wheel lifts of the ground it still gets driven. The Quife shifts all to the outer wheel and the inner wheel stops turning when lifted off the ground in a thight bend. The Quife has no locking action when decelerating or braking.
Does anyone have more info on this LSD in the pictures? It looks great.
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