[s-cars] Installing Torsen diffs and disabling EDL on a 95.5 S6.

[LL - NY]

Hahah, depeding upon how good EDL is. IMHO, it's worthless. BTDT getting the
UrS stuck. My feeling is that the Torsen will limit rear wheel slip before
the EDL engages. Just IMHO, though, no
experience there.

LL - NY

On 1/21/08, Fred Munro <munrof at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
> Jeff;
>
> That's a tricky one. I believe the EDL is integrated into the ABS module,
> and I assume you'll want to keep the ABS active. If someone else doesn't
> have a better solution, you could install an ABS switch and turn the
> entire
> system off in those low traction situations - kind of like the UrS4 cars
> turning off ABS when the diff lock was engaged. That is in the the CDRom
> :)
>
> There is a certain amount of slip in the Torsen diff - I don't know how it
> would react to EDL. My guess would be that EDL might keep the torsen from
> locking up, depending on how good the EDL is. There have been a number of
> torsen rear diffs installed - did everyone else disable EDL?
>
> Fred Munro
> '97 S6
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com]On Behalf Of Postupack, Jeff
> Sent: January 21, 2008 2:34 PM
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> Subject: [s-cars] Installing Torsen diffs and disabling EDL on a 95.5
> S6.
>
>
>
>
> S-hedz :
>
> I have this 1995.5 S6 with EDL.
> I have this V8 Torsen I bought from K. Maddocks
>
> Come April, I will be working on the suspension in the S6 and want to
> install the Torsen diff.
>
> Question is:  Since the 1995.5 ABS is not aware of the manifold benefits
> of Torsen diff, how can I disable the EDL in the car, once the Torsen is
> installed.?
>
> Don't think I'll want to EDL the Torsen in low traction situations,
> nope, that doesn't make sense.
>
> I checked the Fred Munro CD Rom, my 5 years of S car list archives and
> few other places.
>
> Can't locate any information about this..
>
> Any info here would be appreciated.
>
>
> Jeff Posto
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