I've got the opportunity to buy a 4 pinion mini-spool at a good price & just wanted to get some info on these little critters. For those of you who have one fitted do you recommend them on a purely road driven car? Are they easy to fit & whats required ?

they are illegal for a start, so bear that in mind...

pfffft cops wont know!

Just saying... better he know now than after he buys it and installs and wonders why the cops gave him a defect...

4 Pinion hey, right! :?

I wouldn't recommend it for a car that's gonna get driven regularly. All it does is eat your tyre's and bend your axles, but im sure you already knew that.

The only benfit of going a spool is to perform burnouts - Namely dounuts a hell of alot easier, and they tend to last a little longer than lsd's, until you bend or snap an axel. I have one in my v8 cortina and love doing burnouts but in my VL I prefer the lsd because it's a smooth quite car, and I don't want tyre chirpping sounds when I'm turning somewhere and the fact a spool will chew tyres out, but if you run second hand tyres out back who cares. Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

man i love my spool, its the most fun since fish and chips! keeps me on my toes in the wet though and stops me from being stupid as i expect to lose it if im being a idiot

Ok, cool thanks peoples. Definately sound like more trouble than its worth (as I suspected). Jet6, whats with the snide comments??

hehe love the homer avatar - minispools rock man

where do you guys get these avatars from?

You'll have to get used to doing u-turns dirt rally style Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

and its even worse when you have the missus in the car, OMG your going to kill mee - oooohhhh woman... GET OUT

yeah a mini spool is pretty harsh... expect it to rattle ur dash to pieces... and when other people get in ur car they always say "" what the **** is wrong with your car"" but u just say "" don't like biitch then get out and walk"" :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Spools are not 4 pinion or 2 pinion, they dont even have a pinion! There a solid type hemisphere with axle splines

and i love it!

Spool is hella fun in the wet.................. Yes it rattles the hell out of your dash, and passengers don't know what the hell is going on, but they can be quite fun Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

especially when taking off at the lights Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

Might have to put one in the dunger VK for some fun in the wet. It's about all it's good for. cheerz morepsi

spool rocks man - even thouhg i only had it for 2 days before i blew the motor ... it was well worth the couple hundred of dollars