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Old 03-13-08, 06:36 PM
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gsl and gsl se

what's up everyone i just bought a rear end for my car. I was told is a gsl-se rear end. How can i find out if its really gsl-se? Thanks.
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take one of the wheels off of the Rx7 that you own and put it on, and if you got a S, GS, GSL models the wheels the wheel wont fit and you got a SE rear end, and if it does fit then you dont have a SE rearend. im sure there is a different way to tell but thats how i would do it.
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Shouldn't the SE be studded rather than having threaded holes?
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Originally Posted by Crit
Shouldn't the SE be studded rather than having threaded holes?
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Originally Posted by turbomir
what's up everyone i just bought a rear end for my car. I was told is a gsl-se rear end. How can i find out if its really gsl-se? Thanks.
If its a whole rearend,the the guys have it down....

Lug studs instead of lug bolts and a 114.3MM pattern instead of 110MM.
Plus the SE has bigger,vented brake discs rather than the smaller solid discs of the GSL.

If you just got a pumpkin or 3rd member(also known as a "rearend" then there is a way to tell it apart.Just count the teeth on the ring gear and the pinion gear......Then divide the two together.The GSL will be 3.90 and the SE will be 4.07.
The SE rear also has a different LSD disc stack,but that can be hard to tell without tearing the unit down to bare parts.
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by any chance any one has pics of the gsl-se caliper? and complete rear end i would really apreciated?

thanks for the help.

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Old 03-14-08, 07:37 PM
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If it has the brake rotors on it, the GSL-SE rotors are vented, while the GSL rotors are solid. That's the way I tell them apart.

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