re: To lock or not to lock...

[Phil Rose <pjrose@servtech.com>]

>>When you put on the brakes weight was transferred from the rear of
>>the car to the front, causing the rear end of the vehicle to rise.  This
>>sudden loss of weight on the rear tires casued them to "unbind" i.e. slipping
>>at the road surface, once that occurred the back end went it's own way.
>
>This is partly true ... the problem, though, is that once you lose it with
>an AWD car, it's very difficult to recover, period.  With the diff locked,
>without it locked, it doesn't matter ... check out the March '88 issue of
>the UK's Performance Car for an article that explains this phenomenon in
>great detail.

Hi Jeff,

I was  definitely intrigued to read your statemant to the effect:

"with an AWD car, it's very difficult to recover, period."

I'm still agonizing about (and trying to learn from) what went wrong when I
put my '91 200q in a ditch and totalled it in December. Would your
statement apply to recovery from oversteer with the '91 torsen setup? Can
you very _briefly_ paraphrase the UK Performance Car article? Thanks.

Phil

Phil Rose		Rochester, NY
'89 100			pjrose@servtech.com