Allan,
You may be surprised to find out the differentials we use are essentially identical to the ones Shelby uses. (We do sell a few cars with the Jaguar differential, which is very, very close, we have sold less than 10 Jag differentials in 10 years. The vast majority of the differentials we sell are virutally identical to the ones Shelby sells.)
It is my understanding Mike McCluskey made our tooling and then took a splash off of it for Carroll years ago. (At least that is what Mike told me when he asked if he could do it; I, of course, said yes.)
Shelby gets their differetials from the same supplier we use for our parts. In fact, we sell lots of parts for the differential Shelby uses to the supplier, who in turn, sells them to Shelby. We have been selling the supplier parts to the differential for years and currently they even have more parts on order with us.
I believe Kirkham and Shelby use the same:
Differential case (splashed from the same tooling)
differential gears (purchased from the same supplier)
differential power lock (purchased from the same supplier)
differential axles (purchased from the same supplier)
differential rear cover plate (purchased from the same supplier)
differential pinion flange (manufacturered by Kirkham)
differential bearings (purchased from the same supplier)
differential set up kit (purchased from the same supplier)
I think you will find the differentials are essentially the same.
As for other parts, I would love to hear if there are ANY problems with ANY other of our parts. I do not claim to be perfect--and neither do our suppliers--but we do try to fix any problems we do find along the way, (hence my question to Guy what parts he thought we not the best). I have to find out what parts he doesn't like so I can investigate them further.
Allan, I welcome your comments as I know you have vast experience in complicated manufacturing and in dealing with suppliers. Any suggestions you may have to improve our company would be most welcome.
Thank you in advance,
David
