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RE: No hands clapping...



> Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 12:39:53 -0400 (EDT)
> From: audidudi@mindspring.com (Jeffrey J. Goggin)
> 
> FYI, the design of the front suspension on the 4k/4kq/Ur-Q and
probably
> everything else that uses the same basic design Audi introduced in
1973 (!)
> will go over-center when it approaches full lock and will NOT
straighten out
> under power.  You must steer it out of the turn manually and cannot
rely
> upon it to self-center as you can with other cars.
> 
> As such, I'm not sure that Dave's "look Ma, no hands" trick signifies
much
> at all other than he did something really stupid that would get him
thrown
> out of any autocross I've attended here in the U.S of A.  He would
have
> achieved exactly the same results if he'd been driving a non-Torsen
Ur-Q or
> a 4kq or a 4k or even a Fox.
>    

ahh, the professor seems to disagree with you jeff  ;-)

the point of the whole exercise, once again, was to demonstrate that the
(claimed) u-o-u-o-u behaviour of the centre diff in the torsen does not
happen in the ur-q.  no bite, no drama.  clearly some people have a
problem with this.

once again, this was done on a large flat farmers field.  the intention
of the exercise was to explore the vehicles handling.  once again, it
was *not* part of any competition, or any of the events that were run on
the day.

clearly jeff, you've never done anything like this, so i guess you can
moralise.

can we get now back to normal programming.  please?

dave
'95 rs2
'90 ur-q