Ashcroft vs. KAM
Discussion
Opinions please on the pluses and minuses on Ashcroft vs. KAM diffs and shafts.
Has anyone raced on ATB or LSD in a Defender and if so your thoughts please.
I need to make up my mind very soon as to what Diffs and Shafts to go for, to be fitted in a 2005 TD5 110 without T/C or ABS.
Have heard of some using a mix of both..........your views will be a great help.
Has anyone raced on ATB or LSD in a Defender and if so your thoughts please.
I need to make up my mind very soon as to what Diffs and Shafts to go for, to be fitted in a 2005 TD5 110 without T/C or ABS.
Have heard of some using a mix of both..........your views will be a great help.
Hello,
KAM offer a plate type LSD...friction parts to wear unlike a quaife helical LSD...but the KAM is available as an LSD with a mechanical lock too.
The quaife requires no operator intervention and the only side-effect of being installed is better traction.
The lockable KAM requires an intellligent user.
From experience in a Bowler Tomcat (raced in French TT events) with Detroit locker in the rear it behaved like lightning - kept hitting trees!
We added a quaife ATB in the front - phenomenal traction but still liked trees.
With the Detroit removed from rear and the Quaife moved from front to rear we had predicatable behaviour on the limit but plenty of traction too.
This experience is backed up by over 80000 miles of experience in my road-legal Tomcat which has the same setup - quaife rear, open front.
100SRV
KAM offer a plate type LSD...friction parts to wear unlike a quaife helical LSD...but the KAM is available as an LSD with a mechanical lock too.
The quaife requires no operator intervention and the only side-effect of being installed is better traction.
The lockable KAM requires an intellligent user.
From experience in a Bowler Tomcat (raced in French TT events) with Detroit locker in the rear it behaved like lightning - kept hitting trees!
We added a quaife ATB in the front - phenomenal traction but still liked trees.
With the Detroit removed from rear and the Quaife moved from front to rear we had predicatable behaviour on the limit but plenty of traction too.
This experience is backed up by over 80000 miles of experience in my road-legal Tomcat which has the same setup - quaife rear, open front.
100SRV
Edited by 100SRV on Thursday 23 May 14:07
Should be quite entertaining getting a 110 around some of those pyrenees stages !
I ran my Bowler Wildcat with a Quaife ATB in front & KAM LSD in back with Ashcroft shafts all around.
At time Ashcrofts gave 5 year guarentee ...but so do KAM now.
Quaife ATB did not give any torque steer... which was very bad with a different LSD in front.
KAM LSD was put in back ... as KAM was happy to pre-load for comp safari's or 'how you want it' and diff nearly bomb proof as they did a lot of work with Carl Duffield who could destroy a diff in 1/2 mile with his BMW diesel Tornado... Mr Fearn also ran a similar set up ...he did give me a technical reason to using 2 different manufactures but that was 5 years ago.
Whilst I have never snapped an ashcroft shaft ...seen about 5 snap in disco 2 axles over last few months.{Tuareg & BCCC]
I ran my Bowler Wildcat with a Quaife ATB in front & KAM LSD in back with Ashcroft shafts all around.
At time Ashcrofts gave 5 year guarentee ...but so do KAM now.
Quaife ATB did not give any torque steer... which was very bad with a different LSD in front.
KAM LSD was put in back ... as KAM was happy to pre-load for comp safari's or 'how you want it' and diff nearly bomb proof as they did a lot of work with Carl Duffield who could destroy a diff in 1/2 mile with his BMW diesel Tornado... Mr Fearn also ran a similar set up ...he did give me a technical reason to using 2 different manufactures but that was 5 years ago.
Whilst I have never snapped an ashcroft shaft ...seen about 5 snap in disco 2 axles over last few months.{Tuareg & BCCC]
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