Going rate for Clutch plate rear LSDs?

raynman · Post by **raynman** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 4:13 pm

Been a while since I looked, but what would be the going rate for a rear clutch plate LSD from an RX turbo?

Venom · Post by **Venom** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 4:21 pm

They also came from early (pre-98 ) WRXs/STIs. I got a WRX CLSD centre for about $450 or 400, not sure what complete diffs go for.

Post by **Alex** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 5:25 pm

if you can find one, a couple of hundred at least.

alex

Post by **TOONGA** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 7:52 pm

If you are looking at selling one I will give you 50 dollars for it

before Guy does.

seriously though the range from 200 -500 dollars, if you can find one.

TOONGA

guyph_01 · Post by **guyph_01** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 9:10 pm

TOONGA wrote:If you are looking at selling one I will give you 50 dollars for it before Guy does.

TOONGA

:mrgreen:Lol

I've heard of a guy on here buying one from a pick a part place for $50 as the yard owner had no idea. I know off another lucky bugger buying one for $100...

I bought mine for $450!!! Most expensive dam part i ever bought:p and its been sitting in the safe for about a year now:( Waiting for it to appreciate:D Lol nan waiting till i get a gearbox built with matching ratio:p

You can get lucky but most of the time you will pay $$$ if you ever find one for sale. As venom said, it would be easier to buy a WRX one.

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 10:01 pm

guyph_01 wrote:I bought mine for $450!!! Most expensive dam part i ever bought:p and its been sitting in the safe for about a year now:( Waiting for it to appreciate:D Lol nan waiting till i get a gearbox built with matching ratio:p

Wow Guyph! Looking at your subi that means you've been doing a lot of penny pinching when buying your parts!!

Seriously, you can replace the CLSD centre into your current rear diff - read up on it! AndrewT's done a write up here somewhere about it. Worth the effort depending on how far away your gearbox build is..

Cheers

Bennie

Venom · Post by **Venom** » Wed Dec 14, 2011 8:08 am

If you do get an early WRX LSD then try to get the matching inner CVs for the rear driveshaft. They're different to anything else and i couldn't find a single CV joint company that knew what they were or where to get them. I ended up getting second hand ones, handy to know they're also the same shafts for the pre-98 viscous LSDs too.

RSR 555 · Post by **RSR 555** » Wed Dec 14, 2011 10:01 am

Early WRX (upto 97) and RS Liberty ones have the VLSD diffs, both of which had the external shafts for the CV joint. Later WRX ones have the internal CV splined diffs that required the matching CV joints.

To answer the OP question.. they are becoming harding to get so it's a sellers market. I would say that around $400 is the going price but remember you could pretty much buy the whole car for that... and you'd end up with rear disc brakes and parts to sell off.

guyph_01 · Post by **guyph_01** » Wed Dec 14, 2011 11:21 am

If you can find a whole car....

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Wed Dec 14, 2011 3:55 pm

guyph_01 wrote:If you can find a whole car....

^ From the mister "I'll strip any subi I can get my hands on" of the forum...

Cheers

Bennie

guyph_01 · Post by **guyph_01** » Wed Dec 14, 2011 4:04 pm

i meant they are as hard to find as the diff by itself.

raynman · Post by **raynman** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 12:40 am

Cool, asking as I have a 3.9 R160 RX turbo clutch pack, and don't have a car to put it in anymore - moved on to later model cars with the plug in shafts - and a guy was looking for one. turns out he wants a 3.7:1

guyph_01 · Post by **guyph_01** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 2:01 am

Like I'll bid just a bit over Toonga, $60 on it...

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 9:51 am

raynman wrote:a guy was looking for one. turns out he wants a 3.7:1

Clearly he didn't know that the ratio can be easily swapped

AndyT has done a write up about it on the forum somewhere

Cheers

Bennie

Post by **Alex** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 10:09 am

i paid $100 for mine

which andrewT now has.

I even gave him a free painted yellow rear cover!

alex