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

[Ian Duff]

Why can't they just coexist?

TORSEN puts torque to wheel that can use it, EDL slows down spinning  
wheel via ABS sensor/controller/brakes. Go with me here: if you have  
say the LR wheel on ice, the RR wheel on dry pavement, TORSEN will  
apportion torque to RR wheel while EDL will put the brakes on the LR  
wheel. Sure they could compete, but that's assuming fairly equal  
reaction times, which sounds far-fetched to me.

Sounds like the dudes who have already done this upgrade did it solo  
(TORSEN install) and didn't disable (not even sure you could w/o major  
brain power) the EDL.

Any reason not to just install the TORSEN and let 'er rip?

-Ian Duff.

On 21 Jan, 2008, at 14:34, Postupack, Jeff wrote:

>
>
> 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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