RA fitted with cusco diffs
08 November 2015 | 08:41 PM
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From: Redditch
Those Cusco diffs are amazing but you will have to learn how to drive with them. Yes the sound is perfectly normal. You will however under steer badly if you haven't had them on a car before. To get the best out of them in my experience you need to keep throttle on to get the cusco diffs to work, left foot breaking is ideal for controlling your corner entry speed. If you can master them you will be very impressed with your car.
09 November 2015 | 10:01 PM
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Hi guys after some thoughts .
I picked up my v5 RA fresh import . Cars spit on but didn't know till driving the diffs sound fairly loud. Looked threw the paper work to see in jap a cusco recepiet for type mz diff now I'm not sure if it has just rear or both but from the sounds I can assume it does . It sounds like a kinda dog box at certain speeds and off throttle . And when you pull away out of juntion very slowly you can kinda feel it all doing something if you can understand . Now is the sound normal if it has both cusco LSD's fitted? I kinda like the sound but want to check it should make that noise also the importers did oil change on diff and box as part of full service before I collected it could it be they havnt used a LSD oil and its louder? If so what oil should I be using and how does that work for gear box oil for centre diff??
Sorry for lots of questions
I picked up my v5 RA fresh import . Cars spit on but didn't know till driving the diffs sound fairly loud. Looked threw the paper work to see in jap a cusco recepiet for type mz diff now I'm not sure if it has just rear or both but from the sounds I can assume it does . It sounds like a kinda dog box at certain speeds and off throttle . And when you pull away out of juntion very slowly you can kinda feel it all doing something if you can understand . Now is the sound normal if it has both cusco LSD's fitted? I kinda like the sound but want to check it should make that noise also the importers did oil change on diff and box as part of full service before I collected it could it be they havnt used a LSD oil and its louder? If so what oil should I be using and how does that work for gear box oil for centre diff??
Sorry for lots of questions
like yours it does feel/sound strange when slowly exiting junctions. This is a characteristic of plated diffs .
As a daily driver you would prob get fed up with it.. my car is mainly used for sprinting and occasional road use.
10 November 2015 | 10:35 AM
#7
I fitted a cusco plated front diff in my v1 Ra when I repaired the box.
like yours it does feel/sound strange when slowly exiting junctions. This is a characteristic of plated diffs .
As a daily driver you would prob get fed up with it.. my car is mainly used for sprinting and occasional road use.
like yours it does feel/sound strange when slowly exiting junctions. This is a characteristic of plated diffs .
As a daily driver you would prob get fed up with it.. my car is mainly used for sprinting and occasional road use.
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