RE: How to drive a quattro?

[Peter Henriksen <peterhe@microsoft.com>]

Funny - when I punch it through a turn I can get 4-wheel drifts out of
it, but I have yet to experience either over- or understeer after
getting on the gas. I seem to remember somebody mentioning that,
contrary to convention, pouring on the gas on the way through a corner
would actually make a quattro tighten its line (or oversteer).

I have Dunlop D40 M2s with <3,000 miles on them.
- peter, peterhe@microsoft.com
  issaquah, wa, usa
  91 200qw (ufo brakes, no sports seats, std. head lights)
  94 acura legend gs
  80 mazda 626

>----------
>From: 	Michael Spiers[SMTP:mikes@specnet.com]
>Sent: 	Wednesday, May 08, 1996 9:58 AM
>To: 	quattro@coimbra.ans.net
>Subject: 	How to drive a quattro?
>
>Coming out from my final last night at UMD, I took a hard right hand
>turn onto
>New Hampshire.  It was pouring rain, figured bald tires & a Quattro
>system
>should make for a cool tailspin, so I punched it.  The front wheels
>both spun,
>and the car plowed straight ahead towards a median.  Got off the gas &
>got
>situated, dandy, but how do you make that rear end swing around??  All
>four
>tires are pretty much bald (and at only 15,000 miles; may be time to
>rebuild
>that clunky front end, replace the bent control arms, straighten those
>rims,
>get four of the same type & size tires on there, then maybe align the
>thing)
>and I've got plenty o' power (IA stage II, K&N, blah blah blah) so a
>tailspin
>shouldn't be that hard to induce!  Wazza secret?  Don't want to lock
>the diffs
>just to have some fun in the rain, there's gotta be a way to rallye my
>turns...
>
>-- 
>-Mike
>mikes@specnet.com
>mks107@psuvm.psu.edu
>87 5000CS TQ - Metropolitan Washington, D.C.
>84 5000S - Boulder, Colorado
>90 80 - Bethesda, Maryland
>(hunting for the elusive Lago Blue '91 200Q)
>