[V8] front diff( EDL or just plain open?0

[Ed Kellock]

Cool.  It's supposed to snow tomorrow.  Maybe I'll go play.  ;-)
Seriously though, it would be nice to get a feel for that.  I'll
probably have to put the summer tires back on though because based on
my preliminary snow drives, I won't be able to spin enough to see it
with the snow tires on.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Larosa Jr" <Mc.Larosa at Sun.COM>
To: "Ed Kellock" <ekellock at gmail.com>; <v8 at audifans.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 11:36 AM
Subject: Re: [V8] front diff( EDL or just plain open?0


> in my old v8's both auto's,  if you nail it in the snow,
> the rears lock up, and the fronts alternate traction back
> and forth.  You can feel and see the snow flying at one front
> wheel then the other :)  I only had enough nads to see it go
> back and forth a few times before i let off... usually at like
> 40-50mph....
>
> Mike,
>
>
>
> Ed Kellock wrote:
> > That's what I was thinking too.  Mixed tires are never a good idea
> > regardless of Quattro.  This became crystal clear to me one night
> > while hanging upside down from my seatbelt in my Datsun 510.  What
a
> > way to prepare for finals...
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Buchholz, Steven" <Steven.Buchholz at kla-tencor.com>
> > To: <v8 at audifans.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 11:11 AM
> > Subject: RE: [V8] front diff( EDL or just plain open?0
> >
> >
> > ... no quattro has had anything but an open diff up front ... from
the
> > factory anyway ...
> >
> > Your car does not have the sinister spider amidships ... rather it
has
> > a
> > computer controlled locking mechanism in an open diff ... and in
back
> > it
> > has a Torsen ...
> >
> > I don't have any significant seat time in an AT variant, but from
what
> > I've read I would imagine that the conditions of the tires
contributed
> > to the situation ...
> >
> > Steve B
> > San Jose, CA (USA)
> > ... not arachnophobic ... even though I believe that I have tasted
the
> > spider's bite ...
> >
> >>Just wondering if the reason the autmatic v8's have
> >>hmmm..........unbalnced traction front to rear, is beacause
> >>the front diff does not lock? Is it supossed to? I know ist
> >>not a torsen setup.......and it doest lock via knob or button
> >>in the car. So that leaves two possible answers....either its
> >>EDL and not working right.....or its just an open diff?Allan
> >
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