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Re: Buying a Miata

To: Karl Witt <kwitt@shore.net>
Subject: Re: Buying a Miata
From: Ian McCloghrie <ian@codrus.com>
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 23:55:18 -0800
On Mar 9, 1999 Karl Witt wrote:
> At 09:32 PM 3/9/99 -0600, Jason Powell wrote:
> >Yup...all R's have Torsens.
> >The easiest way to tell if you have a Torsen is stop the car...rev to
> >redline...dump clutch and lay rubber.  If you see two pretty much equal
> >length marks you got a Torsen :-)
> 
> That just tells you that you have a non-open diff. any decent limited slip
> diff will do that when you dump the clutch.

Well, (in the US at least), the only LSDs that the Miata came with
stock were viscous LSD ('90-'93, with the 1.6L motor) and torsen
('94+, with the 1.8L motor).  Of course, you might find one where
someone's swapped either the motor or diff.

--Ian
'99 Miata

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