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Race car or street car?

To: datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
Subject: Race car or street car?
From: "Andrew Murphy" <solex67@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 10:13:54 -0800
Hey All,

I had been asking my tech buddies about LSDs and other performance parts 
when one asked me "Are you building a race car or a street car?" He seemed 
to think that if I am going to spend money on my car that I should put it to 
better use unless I was intending to build a race car.

This got me to thinking. Why can't you have your cake and eat it too with 
these cars? I have driven posi cars with 4.11 diffs and loved the sensation 
of shooting out of a turn but I hate them at high speeds on the freeway.

I also love the improvement of handling in a car with a full comp suspension 
but those cars are "bone shakers".

So I had toyed with the idea of setting up a 3.7 LSD and the reaction I got 
was "What's the point of that?" "There is no positraction at 100 mph and a 
3.7 diff isn't going to get you out of a hole."

So I guess I am greedy. I want the performance options but toned down for 
street use. Maybe I should come up with a new definition: Street 
Performance.

Sounds good to me.

Andrew Murphy
SoCalROC



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