How Many Quaifes in existence?

[redwraith94]

I just bought one :sun:, and I was wondering over the period of group buys about how many have been made?

 

[Izzmo]

Can you tell me what the Quaife is? I thought it was something totally different and never got a definite answer back on what it is and used for.

Thanks.

 

[Brett]

First and foremost, why is this in the v8 section?

There is an open thread, right now, discussing quaifes, even how many their are.

I believe area 91 started it, you could search his screen name or just search quaife, alot of people have already chimed in there.

EDIT: Look, i even searched for you! what a guy! Quaife discussion


As for what a quaife is, i believe its a torque biasing differential, it replaces the crappy open differential that plague these cars, probably the best mod you can do, did mention most expensive too?

 

[Adumb]

this is the wrong subforum i do believe

they are for the mtx, a torque biasing differential, possibly an lsd? someone corrct me

HUGE improvement over stock as is talked about

OH! and outta my price range, lol

 

[Mr Anonymous]

Quaifes were sold for years before any group buys. There's probably a thousand or so of them out there.

EDIT: Thread moved out of the V8 section. :shakehead

 

[redwraith94]

The quaife is a torque biasing, limited slip differential, it will transfer more power to the wheel with the most traction, I believe it can do something like 3 times the torque, of the wheel that is slipping, can be transmitted to the other.

Wow, brett, that is great. You didn't answer my question, I saw that thread, and did ya notice how no one said how many there were in existence? So could you answer my question please?

Edit: Sorry to make more work for you mods, I saw the discussion part, but nothing about v8, and I didn't think it should go in the general engine / driveline section, as it isn't really about modding anything.

 

[JEM]

Quaifes were sold for years before any group buys. There's probably a thousand or so of them out there.

EDIT: Thread moved out of the V8 section. :shakehead

Actually, the original SHO Quaife batch was something of a 'group buy', Vadim didn't place the order until he had something like 20 (18?) paid buyers. He had my money for close to a year before the diff hit the States.

Please note this is not a Vadim Fedorovsky bash, he was clear about the process if optimistic on the timeline, and I understood and was prepared to be tolerant of the difficulties inherent in doing serious parts development with minimal capital. Almost everything I bought from him is still in use, in one form or another, on the white car ten years later. I haven't had occasion to deal with his subsequent BMW or Merc tuning efforts; I've stayed rather conservative on the M5.

A thousand Quaifes sounds high to me, I was going to say something a bit over half that number, but you might be right. In any case I suspect the ongoing strength of the market for the product has always been a bit of a surprise to the vendors (witness the current Autotech/SHO Nut efforts.)

 

[redwraith94]

500-1000 is a fair number of them. I didn't know it was that many. I am glad I got one of the 'last' ones though. I actually emailed quaife, and they said they would quote me a price for a 10 person group buy, but it doesn't seem like that will happen again anytime soon.