Miata Mailing List: September 1993, Message #116
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Subject: Re: Torsen Differential
   Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1993 13:14:21 -0400

On Wed, 15 Sep 1993 MANSON@fsd.com wrote:
> After reading Alan Dahl's posting about the 94's and his reference to the 
> Torsen Differential, I thought that it might be worthwhile to request a 
> description of the Torsen be posted since there must be others beside myself
> who have absolutely no idea what a Torsen Differential is.

Essentially, it uses worm gears to provide a one-way torque path.  In case
you never noticed, you can turn another gear with a worm gear, but you
can't turn a worm gear with the other gear.

There was lots of excitement over it years ago when Popular Science et al
got wind of it...

-Andy

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