LSD or Non differences

[Afroclipse]

I have a choice between a non lsd for $250 or lsd with axles $500, this car is going to be my daily with 300-350whp. Being that its AWD what are the major differences between the two from the driver seat, launching especially. I have a RVR tranny with VC lsd in the front. I know how an lsd works but I want to know how people who switched from Non lsd to LSD feel and how their car felt different, plus whether it gave them more grip or not.

P.S where these differences small or conciderable and is it really worth it.

 

[1LE]

Exactly what LSD would you be adding? You already have one in the front according to your post, the '95s come with a rear LSD to begin with, and since you said with axles, I guess it's not the center diff... I'm confused.

 

[turboglenn]

+1 on the confused list. I dont' know of any LSD's that cheap or that comes with axles

I only have a FWD, but the LSD in mine (Quaiffe) has made a HUGE dfference. Before on street tires i couldn't launch at anything over 3500 RPM wihtout the tires going up in smoke. Now, at mid-throttle (~50%) and letting the clutch go at anything under 5k results in a a pretty bad bog until the bost comse on past 15psi or so in first and then it just lights em up right to redline, and now instead of 2nd just spinning and pegging the limiter instantly, the tires spin, the RPM's climb to about 7500 and then the car catches up to the tires prettu quick ( at least compared to before on a peg leg diff)

I know you're looking for AWD results, and a friend of mine has the same TRE trannyas me in his AWD with a Quaiffe diff and i really couldn't tella difference as a passenger, but he said there was a good bit of traction gained (his car lights up all 4 through 1st and 2nd stil )

 

[Afroclipse]

I'm sorry for that, I mean the rear diff I have to choose between two. I will either have lsd in front and back or I will have 3 wheels spinning. Everything sounds good on paper but I want real world experience. Basically I want know whether as a daily driver and part time ass whooper is Lsd that important to me and if I was racing a similar gsx would he have a noticable advantage.

P.S A/t to M/t so my rear diff is a oily decoration but the axles are usable.

 

[1LE]

Hard to say, I've never run across an AWD that DIDN'T have a rear LSD!

I can say though, when I had my TRE rebuild that having the front and center Quaiffes added was a tremendous improvement for my use of the car. I've never launched the thing, so I can't speak to that. However, the car understeers far less (is *almost* neutral) coming out of tight corners under power on pavement (absolutely rocketing out now instead of spinning tires with some weird traction bouncing between the 2 front tires kind of thing). Also makes the car tremendously more predictable and easy to aim when slinging gravel while on dirt/gravel events.

 

[Afroclipse]

nobody

 

[Afroclipse]

Ok I guess nobody wants to help me.

 

[dsm-onster]

Is your rear differential broke? As mentioned, the stock rear comes with LSD standard.

 

[gorf]

Is your rear differential broke? As mentioned, the stock rear comes with LSD standard.

disagree - not all 95 gsx came with lsd! Most did, but not all.

Do some searches on the this site, if you don't believe me.

To answer the first question does it matter? Don't mean to sound like a broken record but do some searches. A number of guys seem to think that there is not much difference in traction.
Personally when I was doing my AWD conversion, the 95 donor car had a non-lsd diff. I decided that I HAD to have an LSD and found someone local that had one for sale.
I just sold the non-lsd for cheap.

 

[dsm-onster]

I've never seen a 1995 gsx without lsd rear. Have you? Just wondering. I've researched it and looked in junkyards. Every result with both: lsd in the gsx. However, eagle is a different story. Chrysler chose to cheap out on the rear diff in at least 1995. It was a option for Talons. Talons were cheaper too.

 

[gorf]

I've never seen a 1995 gsx without lsd rear. Have you? Just wondering. I've researched it and looked in junkyards. Every result with both: lsd in the gsx. However, eagle is a different story. Chrysler chose to cheap out on the rear diff in at least 1995. It was a option for Talons. Talons were cheaper too.

Chrysler thing - OK - my 95 donor was a tsi not a gsx......

 

[dsm-onster]

I didn't say talons didn't have an lsd option.

 

[Mr Peepers]

I went from a non-LSD rear to an LSD(factory) in my 2nd AWD 1g. I never really had enough power to break the tires loose on dry pavement unless I was launching so I can't say *too* much about dry traction. What I DID notice was that in rain and snow the back end would slide out much more predictably. Before with the non-LSD, it would either understeer or oversteer seemingly at random. Although it was a bit more tail happy with the LSD it was also much more predictable which I prefer.

Basically, you have more traction but when you break free in low traction conditions the back end will step out/oversteer, rather than oversteering sometimes and understeering others.