RE: How to drive a quattro?

["Duff, Ian" <iduff@charter.com>]

Handbrake isn't too happy if you have Torsen center diff. If not, you
can have a BALL perfecting handbrake turns!

Ian Duff, New Bedford, MA
1990 Coupe Quattro

>----------
>From: 	Robert Houk - SMCC Bos Desktop
>Hardware[SMTP:rdh@UrQ.East.Sun.COM]
>Sent: 	Wednesday, May 08, 1996 2:32 PM
>To: 	quattro@coimbra.ans.net
>Subject: 	Re: 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...
>
>Handbrake . . .
>
>That, or put big fat tires up front and little skinny ones out back!
>
>Then you can send a picture of your car off to Road and Track . . .
>
>					-RDH
>