Re: Boating with an S4

[Orin Eman <orin@wolfenet.com>]

Concur.  Excellent post on the topic.

Orin.

> Sorry for this long post - I have included excerpts from the Gleason Torsen
> white paper which I feel explains this dilemma clearly; no matter how much
> torque you engine can produce, the most you will ever get out of the
> driveline is determine by the amount of resistance provided by the lowest
> traction wheel and the bias ratio of the diff, and if it's not enough to
> move you, you don't move. Open diffs have a bias ratio of 1:1. Torsens are
> more than 1:1, e.g. 4:1.

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