(LAC) Forgive me father, for I am about to sin

[Taka Mizutani]

Thank you for the clarification.

I actually *like* how you can have the car rear-biased and loose when you
want to have
fun and then run it 50/50 in the snow for conservative driving. That seems
to work very well
in that you can get the best of both worlds.

I think with the yaw sensor addition in '05 (or was it '06?) and the 40/60
bias of the current
car, the DCCD would even work better and less tail-happy when you don't
expect it.

As a follow-up, when you say the VCs in Subarus fail, how do they fail?

Do they fail in the same manner that DSM xfer cases fail- seal failure,
followed by loss of fluid, followed by melting of gears and complete
driveline
lockup? I've had that happen twice to me, both times I got away very lucky
w/o any loss of control of the car, that's one reason why I won't drive a
DSM or really
any Mitsubishi. That's a fatal design flaw.

Taka


On 2/26/07, Roy Wendell <erwendell at mac.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Feb 26, 2007, at 2:14 PM, Taka Mizutani wrote:
>
> > Horror stories about DCCD? What horror stories? DCCD works very well,
> > IME.
>
> Simply that it's very very tail happy in low traction situations as you
> yourself point out in another post. The algorithm, while apparently
> unbeatable on the asphalt from both my personal experience and that of
> all the autocrossers I know, apparently just isn't or can't be
> optimized for low traction situations. A couple of friends put theirs
> sideways a few times when the snow flew before they, like you, figured
> out to go to the lowest setting on "manual" mode. Stepping up from the
> standard WRX which pretty much power understeers all the time in the
> slippery stuff and having it in mind that the manual modes were for
> performance driving they found the oversteer of the DCCD in auto very
> unexpected. But I agree with you it's a very very good system, possibly
> the best of the lot. I can't quite say the same for the more run of the
> mill viscous locking center diffs used in the rest of the Subaru manual
> transmission range as I've developed a bit of a side business replacing
> failed ones on higher milage cars. For some reason I haven't quite
> discerned yet they decided to lock up solid and make the cars nearly
> undriveable.
>
> Roy
>
>