Re: How to drive a quattro?

[Brendan Rudack <rudack@ucsub.Colorado.EDU>]

Mike,  I haven't driven many of the turbo Audi's but I had the chance to 
drive an S4 in the rain.  I approached a nice 90 degree right hander, 
turn in hard and boot the gas.  Full boost about midbend and weee, 
there it goes, four wheel sideways drift.  In my 90Q  I have to enter a 
turn at a good velocity, abrubtly let off the gas and hopefully the rear 
will loosen up enough that when I stick my foot in it again the back end 
will stay out.  I have been most successful with the E- brake though.  I 
prefer the E-brake turn in the snow or dirt it is  more fun in a N/A car.
When your in Boulder I'll take you for a ride if you wish.

Brendan Rudack			rudack@ucsub.Colorado.EDU
88' 90Q
Boulder, Colorado 

On Wed, 8 May 1996, Michael Spiers wrote:

> 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)
>