RE: How to drive a quattro?

[Glen Powell <gpowell@acacianet.com>]

NJTH & BTDT - I know you said you didn't want to - but try locking only that rear diff!!!

-glen

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)