differential swap or not

[Newschooler]

Originally Posted by SKILMATIC

No that was a great post. However, it still distributes the power that was transfered from the tranny. A diff does nothing but distribute power to the wheels. It has nothing to do with power transfer. In order to transfer something you must change it to another form. Which the tranny does. The diff just takes that power from the tranny and distributes it to the wheels. I hope I am making sense too.

I think there is a bit of missunderstanding here. Yes you are right, the differential does only one thing: The distribution of the power to the wheels, just like you say. I was talking about the FINAL DRIVE, which is often in the differential housing of a FWD car so I don't know about RWD cars like a supra. But that could be why there is alot of articles that talk about a 3.7 differential instead of saying a 3.7 final drive.