Upgrade 1 comprises 3 components.
1. Replacing the drive shaft and axle stub locating pins with new ones with square edges not round edges
2. Thicker mounts for the rear sway bar to move it away from the rear belt
3. And the relevant one, re-machined composite bulkhead hubs on the end of the layshaft. The bottom of these hubs are thinner than the originals, which allows the layshaft to sit lower in the bulkhead which moves the front belt away (ie lower) from the pinion shaft.
The only way to really know if you have it is to compare with somebody else’s who knows they have upgrade 1 - or maybe someone from Xray can post the serial number of the first car to have upgrade 1 packed with the kit?
You cannot go by when you bought the car.
I have 2 008s. The first was from the first batch to arrive in the UK(early December I think), before the upgrade pack 1 was issued. The second I bought in March or April. This did not have upgrade pack 1 or 2 so I registered with the distributor as per the UK process. I promptly received pack 2 but not pack 1. I phoned and they said pack 1 was now in the kits. I explained this was my 2nd 008 and I knew what I was talking about and it wasn’t. No problem pack 1 followed on. My assumption is that bizarrely my 2nd kit must have been sitting around in the distribution channel for some time so that in relative terms was an “old” kit.
Mind you I would guess that if your kit has the optional 34/20/34 gearing included (upgrade pack 2) it is almost (100%?)certain that you have upgrade 1.
On the basis of what Mirage told me and sent me, if you do not have upgrade 2 pack included, that does NOT mean that you do not have upgrade pack 1 in the kit, but you might not.
For clarity. I assume as upgrade pack 1 is not optional you will not find it in a separate bag like the gearing, it will have replaced the parts in the standard bags.
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I will so always drive the diffs position on high position!!