Re: Torsins and Misbehaving

[Michael Williams <daserde@ucla.edu>]

Sargent Schutt decided to speak these words:

>CONCLUSION: 
>
>The UrQ chassis, because of it's many differences, seems to have a little
>thicker skin.  The spider is there just the same, but it is harder to sink 
>its
>teeth into the UrQ than the larger, heavier type 44 cars. They are more 
>easily discombobulated.
>
>Thus not many UrQ Torsen drivers have felt the spider's presence, or have
>recognized it as such, due to it's less efficacious abilities to seriously
>wound the driver, owing to the car's more stable demeanor at the limit (eg
>chassis dynamics). 
>
>Not fanning flames, just trying to do my part in resolving this.


ARGH!!! Did i not say something like this last night?  Why does everyone 
ignore me? I even said this 2 months ago.  That the torsen is always 
going to bite in the given situation where it happens, its simply 
dependent on the chassis as to whether it actually manifests itself in 
the handling....



later...


Michael Sheridan Williams
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