[s-cars] Of EDL and switches...

[Theodore Chen]

--- Robert Pastore <rpastore at animalfeeds.com> wrote:
>
> Now we put a torsen rear diff in: The center torsen will deliver the torque
> to the drive axle that can most handle it. The rear torsen will allocate
> torque to the driven wheel that can most handle it.  So the equation becomes
> that wheel with the most torque capacity now limits the torque available to
> the pavement.

only up to the bias ratio of the torsen.  i don't know what it is in
the V8Q's torsen (which i think is a torsen 1), but typically the bias
ratio is on the order of 2-3:1.

there's also a coffin corner in the torsen's behavior.  the biasing is
a multiple of the torque supportable by the wheel with the least traction.
if that wheel has no traction at all, then the torsen will not deliver
any torque to the wheel with traction, either.

-teddy


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