Limited Slip Differential on MCS?

[onrails]

Has anyone looked into putting a limited slip diff into an MCS yet? I take delivery next month and am curious to see how much of a difference it makes. I've been lucky enough to drive someone else's around a track and putting the power down coming out of a corner wasn't as good as I had hoped...inside front wheel is starting to spin a little and it's not as smooth on acceleration as it should be because of that.

[Simon Jackson]

We are working on it at the moment, we have them done for the Cooper, the S one shouldn't be too much longer, I will post when I have more details

[WAY]

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Originally posted by Simon Jackson
We are working on it at the moment, we have them done for the Cooper, the S one shouldn't be too much longer, I will post when I have more details

Simon, are you going to alter the final ratio? Please say you are as most of us here are not happy with the long gearing. It's your chance to change this. Also, any idea how much it would be (in AUstralia)?

[Simon Jackson]

Thats the idea, we have succeeded on doing it on the Cooper offering 3 different ratio's, the same will hopefully be said for the S. We are also working on a Close Ratio S/C gear kit, but normal engagement, not Dog. I will post more about these products in the next couple of days.

[minicoopersgirl]

I am most definitely getting a LSD!!
With that, the car will handle much nicer on the track. I will be saving up for a LSD after I get my wheels

[Cape Cod MINI]

Check out MINIMania at this link. They have a lsd for the MCS at $1,695.00. Might be able to get some feed back from them. Check out the close ratio gear kit for the Cooper too. Interesting.

http://new.minimania.com/NewMiniMechanical.cfm

[paulmon]

How big of a job is it to install something like this. Obviously not for the do it yourselfer, how long would it take for a pro to install this? $1695 isn't cheap and to add installation ontop of that.

Paul

[swamos]

Will it affect the operation of the traction control or DSC??

[Simon Jackson]

Cape Cod, Mini Mania is an affiliate company of ours in the US, we will actually be supplying them product.

[GordonD]

Quaiffe already has one available with, i think, a choice of 3 final ratios

[Davbret]

www.mini-madness.com is hawking a Quaife for $1095- USD. Not a bad price at all!!! Check it out!

R

[CSDan]

WOooooooooooHooooooooooooooooo

Now I just have to save.

Daniel

[harts]

i think you can get the quaife straight from them for $999,, now the real problem is getting it in the car,, looks like you will need to drop the engine down in order to get the transaxel off of it,, then you need to split the transaxel to get the quaife in where it needs to be, no small task or cheap one, if some one knows a good place to get all of this done in the midwest please post it,, cheers

[dpayne1]

I have also been checking out the LSD from Quaife. It appears that the labor for this install would be in the $1100 to $1500 range - unless of course you get it done for trade or "Know a guy" however, I can't imagine letting just anyone attempt this.

I think the result would be great as the S has a lot of wheel spin under hard cornering.

[Laing]

Doesn't the MCS use the same Getrag 6-speed as the Nissan Sentra SER Spec V? It has a limited slip from the factory. I think the Focus SVT uses the same tranny also.