RE: Autocrossing a Quattro

["Bruce Bell" <bbell04@ibm.net>]

The '84 4kq owners manual says something to the effect that the center diff.
should be locked in low traction situations OR when you are in competition!

This not so politically correct verbiage disappeared by the time  I got my
'87.

Bruce

> Oh, yeah: I always -- always! -- run with the center diff
> locked.  On both
> BFG R1s and Hoosier Autocrossers, my car lifts the inside
> rear wheel about 2"
> under hard cornering.  This means the car will coast through
> the middle third
> of the corner unless the center diff is locked.