Now this is what a quattro is for..

[E. Roy Wendell IV]

On Dec 8, 2006, at 12:00 AM, Mark J. Besso wrote:

> It sure looks like fun!
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> Was that run made with both differentials locked?
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> ~Mark
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roy Wendell
> Subject: Now this is what a quattro is for..
>
> http://www.trisrc.com/videos/Roy_120306_High.wmv
>
You had to ask didn't you : )
Nope, it's a 200 with torsen center, rear unlocked. E-brake usage was  
pretty mandatory so locked center wouldn't have worked. I'm still  
trying to figure out all the dynamics of the interaction between my  
feet, hands, and the center diff. As you can see there is one corner  
I never did get right where the car just refused to turn no matter  
what. On my first run I just understeered into everything. I soon  
figured out that I had to get the car very sideways with the e-brake  
before the turn and then power all the way around with small  
corrections via the steering. How much of this is just the fact that  
the 200 is long and nose heavy and how much is due to the diff I  
don't know. I couldn't find enough grip in the front to toss it  
sideways with a flick so that's when I resorted to the e-brake. I do  
recall that I could reliably use the gas pedal to steer my open diff  
5000 but that was because once the rear was broken loose I could keep  
it that way. That tends to hurt forward progress so it's all a  
tradeoff. I actually posted to the torsen list to discuss this but I  
think I'm the only one subscribed.

All in all I did pretty well against a fleet of much shorter and  
lighter Subaru Imprezas. The 200 is really the wrong car to carry the  
Audi flag in this kind of competition but it's what I've got. This  
was only the second event put on by a fledgling rally club based in  
north central WV so I didn't care all that much how I did, just that  
I was there.

Roy Wendell
erwendell at mac.com
Too many type 44 tq
A pair of MR2s