EP touring becoming very powerful today, replace rear ball diff with rear gear diff to take the advantage of less maintenance and consistant diff effect.
Most of the player is looking for more steering by replacing front spool to front diff, with very thick diff gease, like 500k.
Spool tends to understeer a little bit, let driver has more time to control the car, but eats tire a lot.
But spool has more direct feeling.
That's what i feel
LSD is similar to normal diff, except it will "limit the slip" for the wheel with less traction so that will help the car to go for high speed corners typically
LSD for 1/8 and 1/5 have friction plates inside. The rest is like a normal diff. Under low or no load the diff will turn smoothly. But when you apply throttle or brake the diff inside housing push apart and putting pressure onto the plates. Causing the diff have "locking" effect. Same as real car LSD. Kyosho have similar design for v-one and 1/8 buggy too. But instead for friction plate it use a square block to lock the diff gear.
The gear diff of EP RC, in real car, they called it "OPEN DIFF". Nothing to do with LSD.
LSD is another story like jf813 c-hing said, it lock and close the diff with several different methods. At different situation. So there is 1 way, 1.5 way and 2 way LSD. Do NOT ask me what is this, you should know how to get this knowledge from Internet with tons of LSD information.
Well. It is an open diff for sure. But why people use different density diff oil? What is their main effect on the EP? People use like 500K oil in the diff.... which is really hard to turn the diff.