Quaife

Quaife

Quaife Engineering, Ltd. is a noted British manufacturer of automotive drivetrain products. It makes replacement gearboxes and gear sets, some of which are for four-wheel drive systems.

The firm's signature product is its line of automatic torque biasing differentials, a form of limited slip differentials that employ helical gears rather than clutch mechanisms that are controlled either mechanically or by computers. These differentials are usually available as aftermarket items, but for some models are specified by automobile manufacturers as OEM equipment.

Quaife has also briefly built complete road cars, with the R4 GTS in 1999 which also competed in the British GT Championship. The company is currently working on the R40.

Started in 1965 by Rod Quaife and now run and owned by Michael Quaife (Managing Director) and his sister Sharon Quaife-Hobbs (Finanicial Director).

Based near Sevenoaks they have two sites, one near Otford and the other in Sevenoaks

Ford Focus RS

Ford has announced that the new Ford Focus RS will use a Quaife Automatic Torque Biasing LSD together with special front suspension geometry to minimize torque steer. [ [http://paultan.org/archives/2008/07/04/new-ford-focus-rs-unveiled-with-300-ps-inline-5/ New Ford Focus RS unveiled with 300 PS inline-5] ]

References

External links

* [http://www.quaife.co.uk/ Quaife's main website]


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