The Daytona Project

[Jeff]

From the honda guys - they have problems of the diffs failing, axles getting stuck inside the diff, and when compared to a quaife or OEM honda torsen unit the machining and tolerances are pretty poor.

Yes, in a seach of turbo-mopar.com I noticed a post that troubled me...

The thread was about a problem with the TD axels going into the NEON OBX that a few people have had...

I was cruising honda-tech the other day (don't ask) and I noticed a thread about obx products that made mention of an issue like this that plague one of the honda diff designs. They ended up making changes to the design to solve the problem, now that doesn't mean this issue applies to you as more than a few people have succesfully used obx's. But it might be prudent to pull the trans back out, and use an axle stub to examine the fitment more closely.

I hit hondatech and searched OBX. Found a few that liked them, found a few who don't. Nothing surprising there. But the big deal for me is this. A Quaife for my car cost $1200, for the strait bolt in. I'm sure the Neon Quaife is still 1000, and would still require me to hybridize. So I can save...1200-400 = $800 if I take the chance and hybrid my 555/520 together and go with the OBX neon diff. Most people do not do this simply because you must have year-matching 555 and 520 transmissions, which can cost some serious $$ to the point you could have got the Quaife. However, thanks to the Dbag who had the Daytona before me I have an 89 520...for $0.


Oh and Scotty, every time you post in this thread a little ray of sunshine comes down and hits the Daytona...it makes me smile