The procedure for buying a Quaife atb lsd

[iw_laurence]

Right, I want to buy a quaife for my clio. Doesnt seem to be any for sale used so will be enquiring into purchasing new. Now i have read the crown wheel needs machining to the diff and to be honest I dont really want to have to strip the box, send it away and then have to reassemble whilst the car is not in use.

If I was to buy one from demontweeks (or whoever can point me to the best price). Is it a case of having to source my own machining work and they just send me the LSD? or is the machining included in the price?

 

[Stay Puft]

Isnt it just a case of pinging @NorthloopCup ?

 

[Coops Mk1]

as above, or just buy the diff, get a second hand box and post the lot off to agency transmissions and say 'make it so'

 

[JamesBryan]

I'm getting one done from @NorthloopCup in the coming weeks.

The price includes Quaife fitting your crownwheel to the diff.

 

[shiftspark]

As above ^ Quaife will fit the crown wheel but this will need removing from your gearbox and sending to Quaife. Agency did mine whilst I waited, took them about 10 mins to get it out.

 

[Westyfield2]

Buy unknown spare gearbox.
Take car to garage. Have them remove your gearbox and fit the second hand one.
Send your gearbox to Quaife. Pay them the money for the new diff and to fit it to your gearbox. Alternatively, send it to Northloopcup instead and ask Mark to give your gearbox a refresh whilst he's doing it.
Receive quaife'd gearbox back.
Take car to garage. Have them remove the temporary spare and fit your shiny new quaife'd one.
Sell on spare gearbox.

 

[iw_laurence]

Well that all sounds bloody expensive lol. I think a second box is my best bet. DO they come up for sale used often?

 

[masekwm]

Take car to garage, have them remove gearbox and push car off ramps.

Drive gearbox to Northloop

Wait a few days, pay Renault for the rebuild parts.

Get back a photo of your diff

Drive back pick up gearbox, take it to garage who refit it to car.

Mine took about 3 weeks, including parts coming from Renault over Xmas, twice as they supplied the wrong part initially.

 

[JamesBryan]

Buy unknown spare gearbox.
Take car to garage. Have them remove your gearbox and fit the second hand one.
Send your gearbox to Quaife. Pay them the money for the new diff and to fit it to your gearbox. Alternatively, send it to Northloopcup instead and ask Mark to give your gearbox a refresh whilst he's doing it.
Receive quaife'd gearbox back.
Take car to garage. Have them remove the temporary spare and fit your shiny new quaife'd one.
Sell on spare gearbox.

That's a good way to waste nearly £400 :tongueclosed:

Well that all sounds bloody expensive lol. I think a second box is my best bet. DO they come up for sale used often?

Quite often yeah.

 

[iw_laurence]

I think I will hang on until one comes up used then.

 

[Westyfield2]

That's a good way to waste nearly £400 :tongueclosed:

I'm all ears on how to do it cheaper.
Problem is, I'm happy to remove the gearbox on nice simple RWD Westfield and have done it dozens of times. But I don't want to do spannering on a FWD Clio that's a right pain to work on. Then once the gearbox is out it then needs the diff removing, which again is beyond me. And then once the diff is out its lay the car up sit twiddling thumbs waiting for it to be sent back.
It's a shame the crown wheel needs machining, otherwise a specialist could have a Quaife on the shelf and do a same day drive-in-drive-out.

 

[JamesBryan]

I'm all ears on how to do it cheaper.
Problem is, I'm happy to remove the gearbox on nice simple RWD Westfield and have done it dozens of times. But I don't want to do spannering on a FWD Clio that's a right pain to work on. Then once the gearbox is out it then needs the diff removing, which again is beyond me. And then once the diff is out its lay the car up sit twiddling thumbs waiting for it to be sent back.
It's a shame the crown wheel needs machining, otherwise a specialist could have a Quaife on the shelf and do a same day drive-in-drive-out.

Removing and fitting the box twice would be the costly bit. Better to buy a 2nd box and have the diff built into that. Then you can keep the car on the road and do one swap once the diff is in. Looking at £200 to remove and fit a box.

 

[NorthloopCup]

You're into around £1500 easily to fit a Quaife and refurb the box at the same time. It'll have signs of wear in ANY jc5 box. I know, I've stripped and rebuilt enough now.

 

[masekwm]

I'm sure I read that PMS could supply new gearboxes as an alternative.

Mine only had a crunch into 3rd on track and my bill was something like NLC said above, then I added a lightweight flywheel & Megane 5th.

Best mod on my car, wish I hadn't bothered with the flywheel though

 

[Christopher.]

All in i paid £1550ish....Best money iv ever spent on the car hands down.