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Gsedan35 · 11-01-2004, 04:41 PM

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Richard 350z

I am selling the stock, closed, viscous limited slip differential from a 2003 Nissan 350Z Track model on Ebay. Opening bid $299. I understand that G35 owners might be interested in replacing your open differential with the LSD from the 350Z. It was in the car for about 12,000 miles before being replaced with the Nismo LSD. I will ship via Fed Ex 2nd Day Air and pass along to you my net corporate rate for shipping.

I am "350zmods" on Ebay. Do a search there for "Nissan 350Z Limitied Slip Differential".

Richard 350z
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I really don't know how to say this, but I have to speak up on this. People have to be educated. No one knew anything when I did my oem VLSD swap, so they couldn't have helped me. I'm not doing this to be mean, but to educate.

I'm sorry to be the delivery of bad news, but their isn't a market for oem viscous cores. I learned the hard way when I bought a viscous core out of Performance Nissan's race car with only 15 miles on the part for only $100.

Richard, the only way you can get anywhere near that price is to include the stub axel's and bearings you have laying around from your Nismo LSD kit. Otherwise anyone doing a open diff to VLSD swap will get a rude suprise by the total cost of parts required to do the swap.

Ok, I got my viscous core for $100. I thought that was a deal,.........WRONG. I learned the hard way that I had to add expensive parts in order to do the conversion.

Viscous core $100
LSD stub axle's $300 (required, impossible to get around)
LSD bearings and seals $100 (required, impossible to get around)
Installation, including removal, assembly, adjustments, shimming and re-installation. $400
Total $900 (I cannot stand here and say it was even worth $900)

If the core starts out at $300, that moves the cost to $1100. As you know buying and installing a Nismo LSD would only cost $250 more then that, $950 + $400 for install.

Plus, if anyone is going to consider a oem swap, they are better off just buying the whole assembly as a unit, for around $450 is what they sell for out of parted out cars. No other parts cost's and much lower labor costs, $650 tops.

11-01-2004, 04:41 PM	#3 (permalink)
Gsedan35 Over 100 Posts Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 178	<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Richard 350z I am selling the stock, closed, viscous limited slip differential from a 2003 Nissan 350Z Track model on Ebay. Opening bid $299. I understand that G35 owners might be interested in replacing your open differential with the LSD from the 350Z. It was in the car for about 12,000 miles before being replaced with the Nismo LSD. I will ship via Fed Ex 2nd Day Air and pass along to you my net corporate rate for shipping. I am "350zmods" on Ebay. Do a search there for "Nissan 350Z Limitied Slip Differential". Richard 350z <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote"> I really don't know how to say this, but I have to speak up on this. People have to be educated. No one knew anything when I did my oem VLSD swap, so they couldn't have helped me. I'm not doing this to be mean, but to educate. I'm sorry to be the delivery of bad news, but their isn't a market for oem viscous cores. I learned the hard way when I bought a viscous core out of Performance Nissan's race car with only 15 miles on the part for only $100. Richard, the only way you can get anywhere near that price is to include the stub axel's and bearings you have laying around from your Nismo LSD kit. Otherwise anyone doing a open diff to VLSD swap will get a rude suprise by the total cost of parts required to do the swap. Ok, I got my viscous core for $100. I thought that was a deal,.........WRONG. I learned the hard way that I had to add expensive parts in order to do the conversion. Viscous core $100 LSD stub axle's $300 (required, impossible to get around) LSD bearings and seals $100 (required, impossible to get around) Installation, including removal, assembly, adjustments, shimming and re-installation. $400 Total $900 (I cannot stand here and say it was even worth $900) If the core starts out at $300, that moves the cost to $1100. As you know buying and installing a Nismo LSD would only cost $250 more then that, $950 + $400 for install. Plus, if anyone is going to consider a oem swap, they are better off just buying the whole assembly as a unit, for around $450 is what they sell for out of parted out cars. No other parts cost's and much lower labor costs, $650 tops.