PG1 Gearbox with Quaife LSD

ZS · 13-01-15, 02:14 PM

Could you not remove the Diff from the Lotus one pictured above and fit it to your current box? - I'd be tempted to do that and at the same time fit steel cage bearings and replace the seals... If the price was right?

top_man_eldo · 13-01-15, 02:18 PM

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Originally Posted by ZS

Could you not remove the Diff from the Lotus one pictured above and fit it to your current box? - I'd be tempted to do that and at the same time fit steel cage bearings and replace the seals... If the price was right?

I could go that route, but that would be a specialist job because I'm not confident enough with gearbox internals. I did message a fella known as "Rally Matt" on XPF who built/builds the PG1 boxes with the Quaife diffs and steel caged bearings. I think people have had some problems getting hold of him, but I messaged him anyway. I think he is based somewhere near Silverstone?

What's the cost of installing diff and steel bearings into a box, anyone got a rough idea? There's two places local to me that do gearbox rebuilds, although one of them gets terrible reviews!

ZS · 13-01-15, 02:25 PM

No Idea on costs I'm afraid!

As for Matt, used to know him quite well back in the day (back when he was a Rally driver for MG and Leda supplied him suspension!) IIRC he is based within silverstone itself, I would assume he has changed his phone number since the last time I spoke to him, but I still have his mobile number from 10 years ago... lol

As for quality of his work, I can't say I've heard of anything bad about him... I think he did some work on a few Diesels on here at some point and IIRC they were happy. Plus he's always given me sound advice on the phone