Ok, I guess I'll try my luck here... I have a Quaife LSD installed in my built turbo Prelude. I never had traction (even on totally dry streets) in the winter (1st-2nd gear, maybe end of 3rd?), but I thought it was just because it was cold and I was on my 16" stockers and Dirrezzas' which all robbed me of traction. Now it's warmer, I upgraded to my 17" Mugens w/ sticky BF Goodridge KDW's but still no traction in 2nd (I never expected to get traction in 1st). I'm not familiar with the inner-workings of a transmission, so I ask, could the diff become "disengaged" somehow? I'm assuming it can't, because it looks pretty locked the fvck up in there, just curious... When they are spinning the car pulls perfectly straight and the wheel doesn't go wild or anything. Would it be obvious that my diff isn't working? Cluncking, locking etc...? Is this just the price of semi-high HP FWD?

 

Does the car leave a "set" of track on the ground, or just one track?

Others please correct me if I'm wrong, but if a LSD diff doesn't work then you won't be going anywhere, at least the type that Quaife uses.

I will just assume that you are just over powering the tires.

 

Yeah that's what I'm thinking. I haven't had an opportunity to inspect the rubber I lay, but I believe you are correct that if I blew my diff, I'd pretty much be dead in the water.