I'm posting this thread in 'gauging interest' for the moment, but it should turn into a bona fide group buy shortly.
As you recall, we co-ordinated the last Quaife Group Buy.
We've been working with Quaife America (Autotech) over the last few months about doing another, and 2 things have come out of those discussions.
a) With the continued slide of the US dollar compared to the UK pound, doing another run of SHO Quaifes would be pretty much cost prohibitive. Retail would be $1495, and Quaife America is no longer interested in carrying this model. The retail on the last batch was $1395. Thus it's official - the last Quaife Group Buy was indeed 'the last one'.
b) Autotech has been working on their own gear-based torque biasing differential, the Wavetrac. Given the number of units that we buy, and the fact that they tend to be in batches, they would like to start production for the SHO, and of course, we are the company they would like to sell this unit for them, exclusively. The Wavetrac is US designed AND US made. We have also been working with Autotech to customize the Wavetrac SHO application to make it more user-friendly, including sizing it for easy-to-find imperial bolts, instead of having to use metric bolts (or filed down imperial ones).
We have done our own research and we are very excited about the Wavetrac. This diff is primarily gear-based torque biasing, but also has two additional features that set it apart from other gear-based torque biasing differentials (including the Quaife). The first and foremost is the Wave Design Center Pack. This feature gives the car traction even when one wheel has no traction at all. In a normal gear-based torque biasing differential, if one wheel has ZERO traction (on glare ice or one tire in the air), the diff behaves like an open differential, because it needs SOME traction at both wheels to bias the torque. The Wavetrac, on the other hand, has the Wave Design Center Pack that provides the bias when one tire is unloaded/has no traction. The second is that the Wavetrac has Interchangeable Friction Plates to provide controlled bias. This means that you can adjust the bias to suit your needs (the diff needs to be removed and disassembled to change the Friction Plates, of course).
Autotech's web page on the differential is here, and includes a video and a link to a data sheet, as well as detailed technical information and explanations that are worth the read:
http://www.autotechdriveline.com/a_index.shtml
Autotech is very excited with the positive feedback they have already received from Wavetracs already out in the field for other applications, including a 740+ WHP drag car. As with the Quaife, the warranty is lifetime, even when raced, and also transferrable.
In fact, we are so excited and confident about the new features that we will be replacing the Quaifes in/for our winter cars with the Wavetrac units, since they should perform better in winter driving when one-wheel-on-ice is very common, and it's a (noisy) nuisance when the Quaife goes 'open' in that situation. These Quaifes will be made available, of course. One is installed already, so it will be made available to someone in the US once the Wavetracs are made (and it has been inspected and approved as 'good' by Quaife America), and since the other is not yet installed (still new in the box), it can be made available immediately to a Canadian (as its already been imported into Canada). We may also have another couple Quaifes available.
The other benefit of the Wavetrac is a stable price, and even with prices going up everywhere else, we are happy to say that pricing should be US$1295 delivered, even less than last price we sold the Quaife for at the end of the last group buy (US$1350). Since it is US-made, there is no duty to import one into Canada (another new benefit).
So, we would like to get started. The minimum batch quantity is 30 units. Production time is 4 months from when we issue the PO. We already have 25+ names on our list from AFTER the last buy, so we should hit the 30 mark pretty quick.
What we would like to do at this stage is to confirm how many of those 25+, as well as any new people, are interested in purchasing a Wavetrac. We are not collecting deposits at this point - just looking for serious interest. Once the group buy starts, then deposits will be collected and so on.
So, if you are interested, please e-mail us at
[email protected]
if your e-mail bounces, or if you don't get a response in a couple days, please use:
[email protected]
Please note that there is no need to post here if you are interested in or not - it's the private e-mail to us that matters, so we can track people properly.
Thanks!
Regards,
Joshua Teixeira,
SHO NUT Performance
As you recall, we co-ordinated the last Quaife Group Buy.
We've been working with Quaife America (Autotech) over the last few months about doing another, and 2 things have come out of those discussions.
a) With the continued slide of the US dollar compared to the UK pound, doing another run of SHO Quaifes would be pretty much cost prohibitive. Retail would be $1495, and Quaife America is no longer interested in carrying this model. The retail on the last batch was $1395. Thus it's official - the last Quaife Group Buy was indeed 'the last one'.
b) Autotech has been working on their own gear-based torque biasing differential, the Wavetrac. Given the number of units that we buy, and the fact that they tend to be in batches, they would like to start production for the SHO, and of course, we are the company they would like to sell this unit for them, exclusively. The Wavetrac is US designed AND US made. We have also been working with Autotech to customize the Wavetrac SHO application to make it more user-friendly, including sizing it for easy-to-find imperial bolts, instead of having to use metric bolts (or filed down imperial ones).
We have done our own research and we are very excited about the Wavetrac. This diff is primarily gear-based torque biasing, but also has two additional features that set it apart from other gear-based torque biasing differentials (including the Quaife). The first and foremost is the Wave Design Center Pack. This feature gives the car traction even when one wheel has no traction at all. In a normal gear-based torque biasing differential, if one wheel has ZERO traction (on glare ice or one tire in the air), the diff behaves like an open differential, because it needs SOME traction at both wheels to bias the torque. The Wavetrac, on the other hand, has the Wave Design Center Pack that provides the bias when one tire is unloaded/has no traction. The second is that the Wavetrac has Interchangeable Friction Plates to provide controlled bias. This means that you can adjust the bias to suit your needs (the diff needs to be removed and disassembled to change the Friction Plates, of course).
Autotech's web page on the differential is here, and includes a video and a link to a data sheet, as well as detailed technical information and explanations that are worth the read:
http://www.autotechdriveline.com/a_index.shtml
Autotech is very excited with the positive feedback they have already received from Wavetracs already out in the field for other applications, including a 740+ WHP drag car. As with the Quaife, the warranty is lifetime, even when raced, and also transferrable.
In fact, we are so excited and confident about the new features that we will be replacing the Quaifes in/for our winter cars with the Wavetrac units, since they should perform better in winter driving when one-wheel-on-ice is very common, and it's a (noisy) nuisance when the Quaife goes 'open' in that situation. These Quaifes will be made available, of course. One is installed already, so it will be made available to someone in the US once the Wavetracs are made (and it has been inspected and approved as 'good' by Quaife America), and since the other is not yet installed (still new in the box), it can be made available immediately to a Canadian (as its already been imported into Canada). We may also have another couple Quaifes available.
The other benefit of the Wavetrac is a stable price, and even with prices going up everywhere else, we are happy to say that pricing should be US$1295 delivered, even less than last price we sold the Quaife for at the end of the last group buy (US$1350). Since it is US-made, there is no duty to import one into Canada (another new benefit).
So, we would like to get started. The minimum batch quantity is 30 units. Production time is 4 months from when we issue the PO. We already have 25+ names on our list from AFTER the last buy, so we should hit the 30 mark pretty quick.
What we would like to do at this stage is to confirm how many of those 25+, as well as any new people, are interested in purchasing a Wavetrac. We are not collecting deposits at this point - just looking for serious interest. Once the group buy starts, then deposits will be collected and so on.
So, if you are interested, please e-mail us at
[email protected]
if your e-mail bounces, or if you don't get a response in a couple days, please use:
[email protected]
Please note that there is no need to post here if you are interested in or not - it's the private e-mail to us that matters, so we can track people properly.
Thanks!
Regards,
Joshua Teixeira,
SHO NUT Performance
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