[s-cars] V8 Torsen Diffs

Kirby Smith kirbyasmith at gwi.net
Sun Jan 23 19:29:34 EST 2005


Igor Kessel wrote, in part:

> 
> As for the Torsen vs. Locker I am not sure I'd do that if I were you. I 
> still keep the fondest memories of my unstoppable 1989 200TQ. If the 
> snow performance of my my current 1997 S6 were anywhere near that car I 
> would not bother with the diff. swap. Alas, my both EDL equipped
> 1997 S6 and the wife's 1998 A4 quattros albeit both on snow tyres sucked 
> so bad they were pathetic. For a quattro that is. I clearly needed to do 
> something about it.

I think the in-snow stability is better with the torsen than the locker 
(normally unlocked), but this is only a feeling on my part.

kirby


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