truth, an interesting concept.

["Dave Eaton" <Dave.Eaton@clear.net.nz>]

this is laughable.  scott, please reference the "spider bite" in the audi
"torsen behaviour in a turn" sae paper.

put up for once.

the paper does make interesting reading when put against your claims that
the torsen gets fooled by different front/rear slip angles in a turn doesn't
it?  the diagrams where the audi engineers dutifully noted front and rear
slip angles while the car is accelerating through a turn shoot that down
pretty good....

anyone else interested, sae 885140 "the influence of a torsen centre diff on
the handling of a 4wd vehicle".  available from the sae.  interesting that
audi published this as early as 1988 and yes, jorg bensinger is credited as
an author (ref: pc mag article "four father" 1986).

i'll redux it when i get some time.  anyone else more interested, get the
paper yourselves and make up your own mind...

dave
'95 rs2
'90 ur-q
'88 mb 2.3-16

-----Original Message-----

Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 13:24:47 EDT
From: QSHIPQ@aol.com
Subject: RE:  Using the new Search Engine

Or  once Dave coughs up his "latest" white paper on the 80q v 80q, the
discussion will end quickly.  The exact description is there in print.