Re: OPINION WANTED : Audi as a "consumer" vehicle (long)

["Douglas Hurst Quebbeman" <dougq@iglou.com>]

> Doug,
> Just curious, are you saying there is not consensus on how a Torsen
> differential works??  the one with with the worm gears in it, which will
> not allow reverse rotation?  I bought one for my Ford E300 Van
> (motorhome) chassis.  Never had to chain up once-- skiing.

Dave-

You must have just dropped in on the QList for the first time, or, you've been
absent for a while... There has been a great dispute on how a torsen behaves,
carried on between one group of listers who own ur-Qs equipped with torsens
and another group of listers who own type-44s equipped with torsens. The 
type-44 group maintains that torsens exhibit a hunting behavior under certain
conditions (transitions from understeer to oversteer to understeer and so on)
which they call "the spider bite", named for the spider gears used in the 
torsen. The ur-Q group maintains that no such behavior exists.

My comment was meant as an in-joke reference, intended for those who 
have been following the dispute.

hoping that helps, -doug q
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-Douglas Hurst Quebbeman (dougq@iglou.com)       [Call me "Doug"]
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