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Originally Posted by Vizard424
My bad I didn't mean to offend but I do remember an incident a while back with the tC TRD parts. TRD offered a LSD for the car which was a rebadged Quaife unit... Same thing went for the TRD SC for the tC. It was also a rebadged Vortech unit.
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I'm not at all offended, I'm simply attempting to relieve you of your misconceptions.
TRD paid Quaife to produce the LSDs for them to be resold to the consumer (presumably with TRD etched on them, rather than Quaife). It is quite possible that TRD/Toyota provided Quaife with technical information/assistance to aid in the development of an LSD for that particular platform. In which case TRD would have every right to ask Quaife to cease selling that particular LSD directly to the consumer. Or it could just be that TRD asked them nicely to stop and made veiled threats of no longer using them as a supplier in the future.
The Vortech part has already been covered by 2fast4you. But just to let you know, the TRD SC kits that don't suck are what you would refer to as "rebadged" Eaton units. What Toyota does with those is buy the blowers from Eaton, and then cast new intake manifolds to bolt them to.