I am currently busy with a turbo setup for my RSX.

Does anyone have information or have a lsd installed on their car that can give mi more information or tips on brads etc?

 

If you have the 02-04 RSX you might want to think about the 5spd swap with the quaife LSD. I have the quaife LSD in my 6spd and I love it

 

Quaife's former north american distributor has taken the Quaife and designed their own LSD improving on the quaifes weak points and offers it at a very good price... its called the Wavetrac, MSRP $795. I just did an install on one, will post up some pics.

www.wavetrac.net

Post edited: Quaife's prices have not increased.

 

raising prices by 50% in this terrible economy?

 

Wow good info, I might have to consider them in the future. They use ARP fasteners in assembly too, that's pretty cool to see.

 

as the mfg'ers cost of materials is increasing, they have to raise the price of the products to make up for it. I'd say at least 75% of all aftermarket companies have raised their prices in 2008 and i wouldnt be surprised to see more increases in 09. A majority of those companies have raised prices anywhere between 5-15%.

 

Actually the cost of steel and raw materials have been dropping at an alarming rate, which is why Alcoa (worlds biggest Aluminum supplier) posted $1b losses for the last quarter.

Nice try though

 

unfortunately that doesn't translate into lowering cost of products. but we're getting off topic... that another discussion for another thread.

 

one of the guys i deal with said the wavetrac is a beefed up obx..

i personally have a quaife my self with the 02-04 rsx 6spd.

 

But the wavetrac uses ARP fasteners....ARP!!

 

a lot of people say things that they have no clue if are truly fact or fiction. Don't believe everything you're told.

You should tell us this guys name and who he works for so we can see where you're getting your info from.

 

The price on the quaife has not gone up. The old quaife distributor hiked the pricing up for various reasons, not the economy. Check with the new us importer and you will see that the price is still 995 and the the difs are available.

 

Actually this is completely true... i was informed, just yesterday, that what i was told from a former Quaife importer was completely false about the price increase.

I'm sorry for any confusion and false statements, but i assumed the information i received was from a creditable source being they were a long time importer for Quaife.

to reiterate projectPSI post... Quaifes are still available at the same MSRP price of $995

 

Get yourself a quaife LSD. I am about to install mine along with a new final drive (I am going from a 4.79 to a 4.3) and a TSX 6th gear.

I am boosted as well, hopefully this will help with the torque steer and traction issues I am currently having. I don't get traction till 5th gear on street tires and I am just running a little over 400whp on pump

 

Now up to 30,000+ miles in alcohol injected / 15psi boosted RSX-S service:

http://forums.clubrsx.com/showthread.php?t=520556

 

^wow.....

 

Yeah seriously, that's a hardcore write up haha. Nice job.

 

that's a really nice write up. it reminds me of when i used to overclock my computer like crazy and i lapped my heatsinks for my processor and northbridge just so that i could get .5°C more of cooling, so that i could get another 20 mhz out of my processor.

 

I just bought my quaife and had my friend throw it in.

 

ok, with everyone here that has a lsd, is it really worth all that money to throw into. It's not just for the lsd but the small parts like gaskets you need and the labor, how much did it really come out to? and I was told you don't notice it off the line as much but more for around corners... so it is really worth as much as you paid? be honest.. compare that to the cost and benefits of all your other mods...

 

I have a quaife and love it but a wavetrac is supose to be better. With the quaife, the minute one wheel has 100% traction loss( like in a wheel lift in a turn), the quaife acts like a open diff and spins the wheel with no traction. The wavetrac is supose to not do this.....but I have not seen this in person.

 

I had a quaife on an older GLI. It kicked *** and made it an entirely different car when driving at limits. (I ski alot) I am also on the lookout for a good deal on a LSD. Does anyone know what's up with the used LSD's from Japan on Ebay?? What type, etc.?

 

Hello, Just wanted to put a few things out there for any misconceptions about the Wavetrac differential anyone may have heard.

If you were to have a Quaife (or an OBX) and a Wavetrac cracked open side by side, the internals would be different enough that you wouldn't mix up the parts, lets put it that way! We started from a clean slate and engineered a new torque-biasing differential design that addresses some shortcomings encountered with other helical gear driven designs.

The Wavetrac has more internal helical pinion gears (12 instead of 10), features better lubrication of the internal gears, has more 'meat' on the side gears near where the axle engages which can be a weak spot under very high horsepower conditions, and of course the wave-shaped side gear/preload hub arrangement which is unique to its design.

What this means is that even under zero traction conditions (wheel is off the road or on a patch of ice for example) the Wavetrac will bias most of the power to the wheel with more traction yet not completely 'ignore' the other side. For an OBX or Quaife, if your wheel leaves the ground or has no grip whatsoever (remember what I mentioned about ice above), then it will act just like the stock open diff and only spin one wheel instead of two. With the Wavetrac there is a much smoother transition of power because even under worst case conditions you will still be getting some power put down to both wheels. It is held together by quality ARP fasteners (we didn't skimp anywhere in its design!) and don't need any particular type of gear oil for proper operation--in fact factory fill is reccommended.

All units are made here in America, feature a lifetime warranty, and are reasonably priced; more information can be found on www.wavetrac.net and applications currently supported for Honda/Acura are below:

Honda Civic B16 / Integra LS
60.309.160WK


Honda Accord, Prelude
60.309.170WK


Acura Integra GSR [B18]
60.309.180WK


Honda Civic K20 / Acura RSX, TSX
60.309.190WK


If you have any questions, feel free to call us at 1-800-553-1055 (toll free) or 949-362-8700, or of course visit http://www.wavetrac.net to see some 'footage' of how the differential operates and other technical information.

-Ryan

Wavetrac.net/Autotech Driveline