Re: Haldex

["Rich, Jack" <JRich@Kronos.com>]

>> Thanks anyhow, but I want a system that drives all 4 wheels all the time.
Shifting torque around
>> the way the Haldex does, seems to me to detract from stability, rather
than enhance it. (I know,
>> there are some situations that have been described where sudden shifts
can occur with a
>> Torsen when being driven at 10/10).

>Karl Nitz, if he's around at present, will confirm that Torsen
>ur-quattros can perform some pretty heated directional change maneouvres
>over changing camber without showing any signs of instability.
>
> Phil Payne

No!  NO!!!  Please, God, no!!!  (Sorry about the religion thing again.)  O
what the heck.  Perhaps someone can comment on Torsen instability.  Whatever
could you mean by that, Phil?

Anyway, I've no idea how hard it is to change the Haldex software, but I
would love for it to turn out to be easy as pie to pop in a temporary
program that is the equivalent of locking the center differential, for use
on the race track or in the snow, particularly if the program could be
selected from a dash switch.  (The unused FWD ASR switch comes to mind.)
Then one could have a TTq that works like a 4kq/urq.

Jack Rich