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Originally Posted by simoncrabb
I'm not convinced it'll have a geared diff.
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I asked this very question when I met one of their test pilots at a winterrace, and he answered: yes, there is a gear diff inside this 210.
So they defo tested it, and there was nothing wrong when you saw that car go round the track like a bullet! (carpet track)
I hate rebuilding balldiffs, so for people like me a geardiff is always better, because the balldiffs I build always feel crappy very soon.
But Simon, you re not the only person who is not sure if this will work in 2wd, some other experienced people I spoke to had the same "doubt", but couldnt explain why. I m really curious where this idea or feeling comes from.
Because I cant think of a reason why it shouldnt work:
Smoothness you can change with the grease, and you can go even smoother than a balldiff if you wish.
A balldiff can slip a little, and a geardiff cannot. But for slipping we have our slipper, and we always set it up so it slips before the diff does. The only thing I can imagine there as a difference, is the inertia of the gears before reaching the slipper, instead of immediate slip in the diff when a wheel hits something. But the inertiadifference of a diff gear, 2 idlers and a top shaft compared to the big diameter wheels? Peanuts I guess!
I would even buy a geardiff for my X6 if there existed a strong enough Asso one...