Torsen Diff vs ATV Diff

[Conor]

A lot of teams swear by a Torsen diff and a lot of teams swear by an ATV Diff. At the moment, our team has an older, heavy torsen diff from what I now think is an old Audi. I'm considering a switch to an ATV diff because it's cheaper, potentially much lighter, and has a much simpler internal configuration. What do your teams use and what is your reasoning? Here's some background:

Torsen:
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/differential10.htm
http://www.torsen.com/files/Traction_Control_Article.pdf

ATV:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/outdoors/outdoors/1277601.html?page=2&c=y
http://www.off-road.com/atv/rubicon/rubicon.html

[Conor]

A lot of teams swear by a Torsen diff and a lot of teams swear by an ATV Diff. At the moment, our team has an older, heavy torsen diff from what I now think is an old Audi. I'm considering a switch to an ATV diff because it's cheaper, potentially much lighter, and has a much simpler internal configuration. What do your teams use and what is your reasoning? Here's some background:

Torsen:
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/differential10.htm
http://www.torsen.com/files/Traction_Control_Article.pdf

ATV:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/outdoors/outdoors/1277601.html?page=2&c=y
http://www.off-road.com/atv/rubicon/rubicon.html

[RonBurgundy01]

Conor,

If you haven't done already, check out Mike Duwe's post titled "Lets talk ATV differentials".

I've been keeping an eye on it and it seems to have some pretty useful information.

Good luck

Matty

[Conor]

I've been all over that forum and it has been very informative about ATV diffs. However, I'm interested in seeing what people want to argue between the two, not just why an ATV diff might be better. I would like to get a feel for how other teams percieve them to stack up against one another.