transmission number

[scourge at cogeco.ca (Scourge)]

To quote our good friends over at parts4vws, a quaife is "The Holy Grail of 
hook-up".
It's a limited slip diff. It keeps power distribution even between the two 
wheels. The only thing it can't deal with is having one wheel with zero 
resistance, but that could be overcome by using a peloquinn(another brand of 
diff, does the same thing) and installing their spring preload kit that 
always keeps some amount of resistance on both wheels regardless of their 
immediate relationship with the ground.
//www.parts4vws.com/catalog/product_detail.asp?PartNumber=020QUAIFE

A very worth while investment IMO(even though I don't have one yet).

HTH
-George


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Blake Irvin" <blake@clockworm.com>
To: <roccit_53@scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca>
Cc: <Scirocco-l@scirocco.org>; "Blake Irvin" <blake@clockserver.homeip.net>
Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 8:08 AM
Subject: Re: transmission number


> forgive my ignorance, but what's a quaife?
>
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> blake/
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>
> On Oct 28, 2005, at 7:50 AM, C Boyko wrote:
>
>> On 1:10:44 am 10/28/05 Blake Irvin <blake@clockserver.homeip.net>  wrote:
>>
>>> probably true - i guess maybe i just don't like the way the gear
>>> 'feels' - a bit lumpy, besides the bogging.  i think the PO might
>>> have beat the snot out if it - it sometimes whines in 3rd and 5th
>>>
>>> what is a good (fairly) new replacement transmission?  i still have a
>>> stock sachs 16v clutch kit i bought by accident...
>>>
>>> blake/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> There's a nice gear chart on the Scirocco.org website, it'll give the
>> ratios and potential donors. AGB is what mine came with, it was  fine as 
>> it
>> was, close ratio, 3.67 final if memory serves. I had it rebuilt to  a 4K
>> essentially, and have a real 4K on my 79. I'm sure you will find a few
>> people with them, but the 4K's an 8V tranny, so the flanges will be  90s,
>> not 100s. These can be be swapped out. 4K is also close ratio but  with a
>> 3.94 final, and a fifth gear swap for something that revs lower in  fifth
>> would complete the package. With a Quaife. ;)
>>
>> Cathy
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