LSD - yes or no?

[tom hill]

I have just fitted a Cosworth LSD to my roadster and coincidently the handling feels a bit strange at the back end. What experience have others had with the ford LSD?
I am running a 2.0l pinto with a flowed injection head, fast road cam and twin 45's.

[TalonMotorFabrication]

What you have effectively done by adding a comparatively heavy duty LSD to some thing as light as a Roadster is given it a semi locked diff, when you make tight slow turns on dry grippy tarmac instead of an open diff making the action smooth the LSD is still trying to turn the inner wheel. I would imagine the LSD will act like a fully locked diff in the wet if you have a heavy foot coming off a roundabout or out of a corner.

[RichardH]

some lsd can be adjusted as to how quick they lock, not sure if yours can be adjusted without changing bits inside, ive been out that game for 20 years

[baz-r]

you need a 6" one and atb type or viscous if yor poor with somthing this light the 6.5 froma 2wd cosworth is massive

disc settup it crap realy heavy and a pain i ended up junking the discs and made my own adaptors to keep the bigger wheel bearings inside the drum as a compromise

wish i put a quaife atb in a push fit 2.9 diff now

[alga]

I got a naked Quaife ATB for ~£670, fitted it myself into a spare push-fit main drive. Pretty happy with the results. No unpleasant side-effects, but I can slide the rear end with the accelerator when I want to, which was not the case with an open diff.