"Peel-out"...huh?

[Todd Phenneger]

Happens to me all the time.  I'm running turned up boost and am
in a ligher car but I would say everything is fine.  Under
Acceleration while turning sharp the front inside is very
unweighted.  So thats not all that uncommon.  IMHO. 
  Sounds like your ready for some springs to complement those
Boge TG.  Ooo, and maybe a 1.8 bar chip. :-)
l8r
  Todd

--- Cassidy Bolger <cassidybolger at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Listers,
> 
> Last night I "burned rubber" in my 86 5ktq.  I have never done
> so on dry 
> pavement-is something amiss with my quattro drive?  I don't
> drive the car 
> hard on a regular basis, but I have been driving it since 1986
> when my dad 
> brought it home (I was 15) and finally purchased it four years
> ago.  I say 
> all of this to make clear that I know the car very well, and
> as a teenager 
> was occasionally a bit reckless, but I have never lost
> traction to the 
> extent that a wheel spins beyond a brief chirp.
> I was turning hard left in front of oncoming traffic on a
> bumpy city street. 
>   I revved high, dropped the clutch, and buried the throttle.
> The left front 
> wheel spun for a split second and the right front chirped.  I
> let off the 
> throttle from the suprise of this happening. The car is stock
> except for the 
> Boge Turbogas shocks all around and the tires are new.  The
> logical side of 
> my brain makes the argument that the hard acceleration and
> sharp turn made 
> the chassis unbalanced enough to unweight the front left
> wheel, but I am 
> confused how it was able to continue to spin...I am revealing
> that I am not 
> all that clear on the techical operation of the quattro system
> in my car.  I 
> have always understood that the torque was split front to rear
> and so I 
> assumed that the rear would grab rather than the front
> spinning.  Perhaps it 
> was a combination of an aggressive clutch drop, uneven
> pavement, and sharp 
> turn, but I wanted to see if anyone has had a similar
> occurance or if 
> something might be wrong.
> 
> Cassidy Bolger
> 1986 5000 cstq (155,000mi.)
>
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