What fits in a Small Salisbury Housing?

[gone_nutz13]

Hi all,
I've been searching the forums/interwebz and have read the sh!t out of the diff info thread but can't seem to find the answer i'm wanting.

I have a VH project car i'm working on, with a disc rear end and a small salisbury.
I am pretty sure i have a fine spline axle.

I'm wondering if it is possible to replace the diff centre without having to replace the whole housing? i.e can i get a borgwarner centre and fit it into the small salisbury housing?

And obviously a 10 bolt wont fit in the 8 bolt housing?

Cheers

[Darren_L]

the small salisbury uses the same centre as the old banjo diffs out of the early H series Holdens.
unfortunately not much else fits them.

Are you plonking a V8 into the car by any chance ? If so, you are better off just buying a 10 bolt diff/axle complete- they are cheap these days.

[gone_nutz13]

Yes, I will be, going to put a 308 in front of it so i need something stronger than the little sals can provide. Thought if i can just replace the centre/axles i'll be laughing, but if not then i'll try and track down a VK or VL borgwarner disc to disc. Save me a few headaches i think.

Cheers for your help

[Tree cutter]

The gears out of a banjo diff are supposed to fit in the small salisbury housing. You will need to find one with fine splines though. Fine spline banjo diffs were used in Toranas and Kingswoods from 1976 on. Earlier models were course spline axle.

[delcowizzid]

can fit a vl diff but its only 25 spline unless its a vl turbo or vl v8 diff we run a 25 spline vl diff in the vb but its now getting vn 28spline axles modded to suit and a 4 spider centre as we have just twisted our 2nd axle this one lasted 40km

[gone_nutz13]

cheers, i reckon finding banjo internals that are all still good might be harder than trying to find a VK/L complete housing etc.

It's good to hear the different combos that are getting around, i've thought about the VN option also, but with a Borgy housing i can really do as i wish. (i did think about a kaaz centre too) but was unsure if even that would fit?

[delcowizzid]

we are going to bolt in a vn housing this week to see how far out the wheels are going to poke cause if its not to bad we will save money and just run a complete vn diff we have the axles sitting in the vl diff they are around 15mm too long but wheels look like they would still fit under the gaurd when on the axles so we will see if it fits iff not cutting down axles

[gone_nutz13]

there is a bit of controversy over the use of the VN assembly, it will fit, but only if you use small wheels, anything over 205 width will scrub like buggery apparantly. I've got little stock wheels with brand new tread which would pass pits easy as, but don't want to limit myself with wheel sizes later

[delcowizzid]

yeah the vl diff we had one set of wheels that only fitted with 205's on then we got the new wheels and they fit with 255's so if we can get away with 235's and vn diff we are laughing

[gone_nutz13]

awesome, guess it all comes down to the rim offset, if you can get a good offset, should be sweet

[delcowizzid]

we only really care if the hoosiers fit under it without rubbing they are worth a bit much to be rubbing on the gaurd but the should fit sweet they were really tucked on steel rims

[delcowizzid]

there was a thread on here the other day where someone had used a spool and 2 vn axles and cut the axles and trimmed the spool to make the axles fit but im buggered if i can find it

[DANNY8]

but if not then i'll try and track down a VK or VL borgwarner disc to disc.

If ur 8 bolt has discs, then ya don't need to track down another disc rear end. All the disc gear from the 8 bolt will fit onto the borg warner housing. Only thing ya gotta do is get new oil seals put on the axles to suit disc brakes. Or if ya can find a disc brake borgy pretty cheap then may as well just do that to save time. The only cost you'd run into is getting the bearing kits (bout $20-$30 each I rekon) and the cost to get them fitted as the oil seal is behind the bearing, and the collar which holds the bearing on needs to be broken off and new one from the kit pressed on.

can fit a vl diff but its only 25 spline unless its a vl turbo or vl v8 diff we run a 25 spline vl diff in the vb but its now getting vn 28spline axles modded to suit and a 4 spider centre as we have just twisted our 2nd axle this one lasted 40km

Wat sort of driving do ya do? We've done about 1200km's in my wagz since it's been on the road, and all those k's are with a VK 25 spline borgy diff with a minispooled centre. Altho if ur runnin Hoosiers I guess it's doin a bit more strenuous work then my wagz lol.

[delcowizzid]

turbo v6 and 5 speed LOL we were just tuning it when it twisted the axle only managed to get up to 10psi it normally runs 14psi but the new cam opened up the power a lot 10 psi is as grunty as it used to be on 14psi or more.drags are in a week and a half vn diff was slotted in today to test fit getting the 3.89 setup in it tomorrow will slap on the vb shock mounts as its a wagon diff and they are different then it can go in seems the wheels will fit in there will take pics when its back on the ground