[s-cars] RE: diff lock relay... ahhh... 4WDriftin...

[Krasusky Paul (WQQ2PXK)]

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Scott & Varon-

Thanks for putting some of the recent cold here into perspective...  and dig
the pic Scott, gets me in the mood.  Not that mood.  LET IT SNOW!

-Paulie Snowhoar
Sometimessnowy CT
'95 //Ssled, shopping for this seasons H rated latest 16" snow  ---
discuss...






From: QSHIPQ at aol.com
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 21:47:01 EDT
Subject: Re: [s-cars] fact or fiction - diff lock relay...
To: vfugman at globaldialog.com, ken_ng11 at yahoo.com,
	s-car-list at audifans.com

Varon:
I watched Dave Lawson try this B/W disable mod with his 90 200tq torsen
wagon
a couple years ago at Bridgestone Steamboat Winter Track..  I don't think he
ever got the hang of it, and just put the rear diff back to auto disengage.
My own thinking is that the rear torsen is a better setup than the locker
GIVEN
a center torsen.  My experience in snow/Ice with dual lockers is different,
as the Scandinavian Flick with a rear locker actually makes for a more
predictable swing and much more powerful tail out on throttle...
http://www.hometown.aol.com/qshipq/page1.html
<http://www.hometown.aol.com/qshipq/page1.html>
  On tarmac tho, the rear diff locked up adds way to much understeer for my
taste (and it ripped my rear diff off my subframe on my 83 at Mid Ohio), so
I'm
equipping my '84 RS2URQ conversion with the center locker and the rear
torsen, and will leave my 83 urq with  E-P dual lockers for comparo.

Don't worry about breaking the rear locker however.  Even the rally cars
couldn't break em.  IME, they can make other parts of the car/driver fail
however....  One of the main reasons audi made the Gen III an auto
disengage.  It's
been a while since I installed 2 of the E-P boxes in my urq, but I believe
you
could use an existing box feed, so that the blue/white needs to be
re/engaged
on every startup.  I retained that in my E-P locker switches (shut off car,
diffs lights deactivate).  I also joined the B/W from both boxes under the
shifter, figuring an <all shutdown> mode might be cool.  I haven't done
anything
with them yet tho.

A better mod for you ice boys would be to put a microswitch on the shifter
to
engage and disengage the rear diff on the fly.  The nice thing about those
E-P boxes is they are 12v hit = on then 12v hit off.  Kinda handy for those
so
inclined....

HTH

Scott "torsen boy" Justusson