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Re: AUDI SHOCK!!!! kinda
On Sat, 13 Apr 1996 STEADIRIC@aol.com wrote:
> >OK, this is where the arguement will start! :) Quattro WILL also help
> >you stop...
>
> Explain that one......
The following quote is from audi quattro, the gold portfolio, page 94.
Also in the Pinninfarina Quartz brochure.
I have experimented with this and it is absolutely true.
The ability for quattro to have all four wheels broken loose before one
spins also helps braking in that all four must be locked before one locks
On dry pavement, using the diff locks can have one advantage: the quattro
stops shorte. In fact we found that the four disc brakes could haul the
3115 pound car down from 60 mph in 151 feet with the diffs locked and 167
unlocked, from 80 in 263 feet locked and 278 unlocked. Locking them
forces each pair of wheels to share absolutely equally in the braking....
Bob
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