Re: Misquoting the spiderman (generation 1 spider bite)

[Josh Pinkert <flush@us.net>]

At 09:34 AM 4/24/98 +1200, Dave Eaton wrote:
>and the same people cannot tell me how to re-create this effect on either
of my
>cars.  it sure is mysterious..
>
>dave
>'95 rs2
>'90 ur-q
>

And in the same sense, I couldn't tell you how to write a simple web
browser in Visual Basic...but I *could* show you how.

It's not a mystery at all that bite can happen and that it hasn't happened
to you.  A few have had it happen.  The dynamics of the system *show* that
it is possible.  Its just something that people rarely come across.  But as
we've all previously discussed, there are tons of "other" factors that
could keep it at bay.  As Scott puts it...the torsen is just a switch.  It
doesn't know steering input, chassis attitude, etc etc.  My point is that
you've got to get all those things right before you'll see torsen bite.
Just because you and I haven't gotten it right (or wrong...in my opinion)
doesn't mean that some combination of circumstances couldn't provoke bite.

Signing off from the torsen thread...



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Josh Pinkert
Josh@Pinkert.com
'98 A4q 2.8
'72 911T
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