Just thought I'd add that a cast housing is definitely better than a machined billet housing. The grain flow of the metal, although not as superior as a forged item is far better in a casting than a billet (which has no grain w/respect to the shappe of the object being machined from it flow per say).
Hence I would be biased towards the Torsen. We make billet stuff here at American Axle, but only when we don't have time to make a casting or a forging. Billets have very poor strength/stress distribution compared to castings and forgings.
Mind you unless the casting is normalised and case hardened it can have HUGE grains in it which make it weak.
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