Hair's breadth from pulling the trigger on the Stasis diff mod - engineer types please comment.....

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Apr 6, 2002 | 06:34 PM

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No offense but Bilstein sucks IMHO. WYSIWYG swapped out that combo after 1 autoX

I agree with his decision cuz I raced it =P

Apr 6, 2002 | 06:36 PM

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I don't think it makes a differece til traction reaches 9/10ths

Which I never attempt to reach on the street.

Apr 6, 2002 | 06:40 PM

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I was thinking in limited traction situations .. i.e., snow or fresh rain on oil slick roads. More

emergency manuvers etc. Anything to be gained or lost?

Apr 6, 2002 | 06:43 PM

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Are you sure his struts weren't blown or sum'n? There are about 10 peoplein the area here.......

with the Bilstein Hypercos setup who love it.

Apr 6, 2002 | 06:46 PM

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Well - race tires will cost me twelve points in my local VW/Audi club classifications....

and would put me up against the race-prepped cars like stripped and caged Sciroccos and Rob's RS4. I'm comfy in D class for now, with the modded S4s.

I didn't go with coilovers cause not one of the setups out there eliminated the push from the car - they were all even spring rates front to back, or worse, softer int he back than front. :-/

So.....I can't corner weight or anything. I'm not willing to run more neg camber all the time on the street, and this is my daily driver.

I just want the ability to put more power in the rear coming out of the hole.

Apr 6, 2002 | 06:46 PM

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It might help or it might hurt. I dunno.

I think the stock split is more forgiving.

It'll certainly help a lot for track driving but my point is it won't do so until we approach 9/10ths of the traction envelope. IMHO a proper chasis setup(suspensino, aligment), tires are more important than the diff. When all those are maxed out then the center diff upgrade would make sense to me.