Wedge tr8

[the donald]

hello i need to put a limited slip diff. in my tr8 anyone know of a reasonable priced way to do it thanks

 

[mailbox]

Quaife makes the only limited slip diff for TR7 that I know of and it "aint cheap". Might be cheaper to swap out another type. I read somewhere that the old post office jeeps had Dana's in them and were close in width. Posi's are easy to find for Dana's and a whole lot cheaper. Something to think about.

 

[MrBlueSky]

You can get these from Rimmer Brothers (www.rimmerbros.com) pt #RB7003. Yes, they are not cheep, depending on the exchange rate it's about $800 - $1000. They have great sales, many with free shipping if you get on their mailing list. But, you can have alot of differential choices/conversions if your planning on spending upwards of $1000.

 

[Mark Beiser]

I plan on getting a rear end from a salvage yard out of a wrecked late model Mustang GT without ABS and having it modified to fit my TR7. Comes with limited slip, will handle the horsepower from whatever engine I end up going with and has a wide selection of gear ratios available. A bit side benefit is that it would come with disk brakes.

 

[Winston]

Mark,
I'm really interested in conversion process you're gonna figure out. I'd really like to go somewhere down this road too.

I'm not sure about the Mustang, but my TR4A has 60" center to center tread dimension....give or take, for you engineers .

How close do you think you'll come without giving up any stock wheel clearance.

On the beach for awhile so I'm goin incognito for some sun.Hope this thread takes off.

See ya'll!

Winston TR4A IR$

 

[Mark Beiser]

Winston, the width doesn't matter, I'll have it chopped down to the width of a stock TR7/8 rear end. The final product will mount escactly as the the stock axle. I'll have to use 15" wheels to clear the disk brakes, and get my drive shaft shortened a little.

 

[the donald]

thanks everybody for the sugestions i'll have to think on this awhile does anybody know the width of a mustang 5.0 gt rear end thanks

 

[PC]

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Mark Beiser:
... the width doesn't matter, I'll have it chopped down to the width of a stock TR7/8 rear end. The final product will mount escactly as the the stock axle. ....<hr></blockquote>

What about the trailing arm, tie bar and shock mounting points?


PC.

[ 01-26-2004: Message edited by: PC ]</p>

 

[TypeRboy]

That's what a welder is for..

 

[Mark Beiser]

Wow, I are spel gud!

 

[Mark Beiser]

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by PC:


What about the trailing arm, tie bar and shock mounting points?<hr></blockquote>

I won't be doing the modifications myself, but there are several places here in the DFW metroplex where I can drop off the Mustang and the TR7 rear end for the modification. They use the TR7 rear end as a guide, so when they are done, I'll have my old stock rear end back, and the Mustang rear end will have all the brackets and such for the stock TR7 suspension connections. No change in ride hight or suspension geometry.

If you look around most salvage yards, there is no shortage of wrecked Mustang GT's to source the rear end from. Should be reasonably priced too. Just be sure you get one from a non ABS car.

I haven't looked into how to tell if its limited slip or not yet. Someone told me all Mustang GT's after a certain year had it, but I don't know.

[ 01-26-2004: Message edited by: Mark Beiser ]</p>

 

[piman]

Hello Mark,

take any axle and turn one hub, if the other hub rotates in the opposite direction it is a non limited slip differential. If it rotates the same way then it probably is a limited slip.


Alec