Re: frolocking

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My argument to that idea is that the suspension is not properly set up for
the car if you get better times with the diff locked than without....  It
would seem to me if there was that much advantage to a 100% limited slip on
what you are describing as a rwd car, then don't you think all cars would run
that way....  Hmmmm and they don't, there's a problem with the whole idea me
thinks.....  yea its neat, but you are changing the handling characteristics
of the car by what you're doing, not increasing your traction, and by
definition, you are missing something if your tires squeel or slide, chassis
dynamics is what your talking about, and given what you are doing and with
what, not sure I disagree....  What I do disagree with is that the suspension
homework is left undone in favor of a locking diff....  We're not reinventing
or discovering something new on the track here....  If it's proven, it'd be
there, the budgets on most of the teams that would evaluate it exceed the
yearly income of the most of us, and a quick weld could make any car what
your talking about.....  interesting too that the extensive and sometimes
exclusionary rule of torsen gleason applies to most race cars today.....
 seems that given some of the TG diffs that have been outlawed at the track,
you are not getting all the advantages you may think......  In fact I heard
an outlawd story today that was about a totally titanium TG diff being nixed
cuz of its too good advantage........   You are missing something glen, I
assure you......  Fun, totally agree, a track set up with mucho advantages,
not so sure....


Scott