Gemini diff - your ideas please

[postman]

Hey fellas, just need some thoughts and ideas on a diff for my gemini wagon, i have just completed an engine transplant, looking to make around 200-250+kw and maybe more in the year ahead.

Car is driveable at the moment on 180kw, but just on saturday i popped the bearing out from the diff where the driveshaft connects. Stealy gears in Auckland reckon i should just pop it back in make a spacer or a bracket and it'll be sweet, but i would like to upgrade the diff to something better and something that will handle the power i want to achieve.

Any ideas will be awesome.

Cheers
postman

[mikuni]

Bloody hell! What engine have you go in there??

To be honest, your best bet would be to jam a hilux or something in there. 'Burntrubber' makes up some nice diffs using parts from commodores etc, so he might be worth talking to also, but I think he may be pushed for time these days.

The reasoning behind using a diff such as a hilux or comodore and 4 linking, or using a ladder bar setup is not only to have a stronger unit, but also to stray away from the dirty torque tube design that our cars and the earlier piazzas used.

[west]

Ive got a Hilux and 3 link setup in my wag, havent had the cahnce to test it, but have no doubts it will be fairly unbreakable. let me know if you want some more info, think theres some pics up in the rides bit. Diffs r us did mine, all good ay!!!

[burntrubber]

I will do the swapping of the mounts from the Gemini diff over to a short enough Hilux diff again but not much els. I have to many family commitments to worry about now and then theirs work not even much time for my own s**t