Turbo'd s.b. chev...in a 69 Camaro? maybe?

[Pat Ford]

better yet is an airlocker (ARB), I has a pair in my landrover. push a button 
and swish everything turns.

 looks funny as hell if you drop a front wheel in an ice fishing hole, you end up 
doing wild dougnuts until that wheel pops up and then who knows where you'll stop


Previously, you (..) wrote:
> Or you could have had fun with one of the earlier "Detroit Lockers" that had
> a mechanical ratchet mechanism that would make a loud ratcheting noise every
> time you turned a corner. It made for a car that was a real "head turner"
> from the pedestrians - loud clanking and ratcheting noises.
> rap
> 
> "Todd....!!" wrote:
> 
> > Jim,
> >
> > I'm now mostly a Mopar man, and have a Dana 60 which has a FULL POSI
> > most of the time, the posi only 'breaks' when doing a slow tight turn...
> > sometimes you can actually hear the clutches 'break'/slip during this
> > procedure...
> >
> > Whereas the Chev type limited slips are only posi's when ya need it,
> > i.e. under high load and such...
> >
> > In comes that GN that was spinnin only ONE tire around the turns (the
> > lighter weighted tire, i.e. inside turn tire) when the boost came
> > in...(He spun out several times due to the need to spin in order to even
> > come close to qualifying for further runs...needless to say, he didn't
> > make the cut)
> >
> > Then ya have the 8 3/4 auburn locker, that has no clutches, just some
> > sorta cone thing... never really looked at one, buddy jsut bought a
> > brand spankin new auburn for his 8 3/4 when he swapped his 4.10's out
> > for 3.23's! it seems to work pretty good, he's only pushin about a
> > stock 383 in his 70 Bee, so there's not much power to tell, ya know...
> >
> > LATER!
> >
> > Todd....
> > http://www.c-com.net/~atc347/toddlnk.htm
> >
> > Jim Davies wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Todd....!! wrote:
> > >
> > > > I thought all GN's were posi's, this one musta been a limited slip or
> > > > somethin...
> > > >
> > > I'll bite...whats the difference?
> 

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