RE: copyright, that mythical concept

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

jeff, the issue is not just bias ratios between different torsen centre
designs, although we do know that the s4 maintains a different front/rear
static torque bias.  there is much more development in the torsen concept
that simple adjustment of the bias ratio.  for instance, why would the
designers go for *longitudional* cross-axis gears, rather than the original
co-axial ones?  would this change justify a new part number?

clearly we do not have any way of knowing specfically short of access to
audi engineering personnel (i working on it, don't worry) of verifying what
the differences were.  suffice to say that i can think of no reason what
audi would allocate different part numbers if the parts were the same.  can
you?

if you see different part numbers, you think different parts.  btdt.  let me
see, part 811 927 159c.  or is that 811 927 159b?  you better get it right
because they are completely different versions of the computer dashboard
switch for an ur-quattro.  and no, they are not even swappable.

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

-----Original Message-----
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 09:20:00 EDT
From: OorQue@aol.com
Subject: Re: copyright, that mythical concept

>  yeah jeff, that is a convenient argument for you isn't it?  surely you
would
>  acknowledge that, given the 1-part number nature of the diff, the more
>  likely explanation for different part numbers is different diffs,
>  particularly as the diff design has changed significantly over the years
(on
>  the public record), something which you now seem to acknowledge?

Okay, I'm listening: Exactly how do all these so-called "different" diffs
differ?