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Arb diff lock or detroit locker?

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Mr Alford:

--- Quote from: boss on July 06, 2008, 22:32:43 ---proof of what?

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that he has 300 ponies under the bonnet

Disco Matt:

--- Quote from: boss on July 06, 2008, 21:26:14 ---we have rolling road printouts of 199 hp out of our TD5 we got to 125.......it weren't a nice experience


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I bet it wasn't! Not sure if the gearing is higher on a TD5 but I wouldn't take mine over 90 (on a track or rolling road). It'd probably do it, but I don't like to rev over 3k for any length of time and I would never even try to go past 4k.

Thing is, they're not geared for it. There's a reason the genuinely quick 4x4s out there have 500bhp or so and a lot of torque, it's so they can pull higher gears. A tweaked TDI can give them a bit of a shock at legal speeds because it has shorter gearing, but it'll fall behind when they speed up.

Can you guess I've been thinking about this for that 500bhp Cayenne-killing Disco sleeper project (that is unlikely to ever be built, but it's an interesting thought experiment and a man can dream)  :lol:

stuntman:
Boss  :clap:

MrA, I think I may hate you for bringing up this thread, all I do at the moment is browse the t'internet looking at air lockers, I've been trying to ignore the desire to buy one as my other half will leave me if I spend any more money on the truck

Gav_T:
Get one bought you know you want to!!!!

boss:

--- Quote from: stuntman on July 07, 2008, 07:57:59 ---Boss  :clap:

MrA, I think I may hate you for bringing up this thread, all I do at the moment is browse the t'internet looking at air lockers, I've been trying to ignore the desire to buy one as my other half will leave me if I spend any more money on the truck

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ahhhh you see buddy, she cant see the lockers there fore they don't exist!  :lol:

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