I plan on doing a swap soon. I was wondering if LSD helps on that much.

Asd far as I know, LSD puts more power to the ground but lets talk about my daily driving situations.

I just drive around the city and I dont plan to make my car a track ***** so for some reason I dont think LSD is necessary.

Does LSD actually help put that much more HP to the ground?

 

Unless you plan on tracking your car, don't bother spending money on an LSD or tranny with LSD. It's good for drag and road racing, but isn't necessary for daily driving.

What it does is allows both wheels to lock up in a straight line (more power is being put to the ground to grip, ie. off the line or out of a corner) but during a turn allows the outter wheel to spin faster than the inside wheel.

 

An LSD helps you put more power to the ground if one wheel slips. When both wheels slip it's not a whole lot better than a normal differential. If all you're doing is city driving I don't think an LSD would get you a whole lot.


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Actually a standard differential does that as well, otherwise you'd be hopping like mad when going around normal turns. There's a type of differential known as a Detroit Locker that forces each wheel to turn at the same speed - you never see it on FWD cars, normally only RWD drag, because the locked differential is virtually useless when going around corners.

A regular differential allows wheels to turn at different speeds but when one wheel loses grip basically all the power is shunted to the wheel that doesn't have traction. In an LSD power is kept applied to the wheel with grip. Basically.

 

don't bother with the LSD