Petition for new gearbox housing

[sparrow.2]

I would love to be able to run the geared diff out of the SC10 in my X6.

Used the diff in a B4 in practise over the weekend and it was really nice. Changing oils in the diff really made a difference to power handling and reduced on-power diff-out a lot. On grippy surfaces it really seems to work.

What would be even cooler would be if the gearbox housing was a tiny bit wider inside where the diff sits and came with inserts that let you choose if you wanted to use the ball diff along with the original bearings or the gear diff with the metric bearings.

I know tooling is expensive but the current molds should be able to be modified to provide this option. Anyone from XFactory care to comment?

[elvo]

Adding material to a molded part is generally easy. The opposite is expensive/difficult.

Biggest obstacle in case of the X-6: chassis is in the way. We have thought about it, and if it were easy, we would have done it by now :-)

Not that we've done extensive back-to-back tests on different tracks, but the X-F team isn't sure gear diffs offer better performance....

[sparrow.2]

I don't think it offers allround better performance, it would just be nice as an option for when you are on really grippy stuff and steering is no problem anyway.

I know modifying the mold wouldn't be too easy. As far as I can get my head wrapped around it you would need to remill the negative mold and shave a mm or two or three from the positive. Or maybe I have too much of an economics background to comprehend :D

As for the chassis being too wide, my X6-non² has never seen a dremel, ever... honest... really ;)

[YoungChazz]

Making a gear diff tranny involves a complete new tranny mold and extensive changes to the chassis rear. Remember that to make room for a wider tranny you must move the hinge pins out, so that means expensive re-work on the chassis tool and a new mold for the toe-in bars. After we do all htat, the new parts will be expensive enough that an economics guy probably would not buy it...

And the big thing is that nobody wants the gear diff. SC10 owners are trying to get ball diffs, not the other way around.