RE: More altruism (was Alignments)

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Phil writes:
>This isn't altruism, because I'm not personally involved or making any
>contribution.  It's simply behaving responsibly towards my fellow Audi
>drivers.  Your instructions, if used on a Torsen car, could kill
>someone.  We're not talking plus or minus a few hp here, or fuel
>economy, or the occasional snapped timing belt and wrecked engine.
>The loss of control I had in my Type 44 before I got the suspension
>sorted out was total, utter and very frightening.  The problem is that
>it is so TOTALLY unlike every other situation an experienced driver
>will face.  In well over a million kilometres, I have never known a car
>go so totally and unpredictably out of control.  If I can spare anyone
>else the experience, you can call me all the names you like.h

PHIL.  Jeff and I both understand your bite concerns.  We are just a bit more 
convinced that alignment, though important, has less to do with the bite, as 
you described it.  I personally did an alignment on a 44q right before I got 
bitten in the dry, and *all* the alignment settings were according to audis 
(revised TSB) specification.  Reread the above, if it's a nature of the 
device (get Dave's referenced 885140, it spells it out), think of what you 
are really saying to two (Jeff and I)that have been saying it for a long 
time.  

Alignment is vital?  What about the idea that for a given turn in the dry the 
torsen torque shift to the rear of the car caused ONLY by slip angle 
differences, actually upsets the baseline chassis dynamics of a torsen center 
quattro?  You can't change that with an alignment.  In fact, if I remember 
correctly SAE 885140 doesn't even give the alignment specifications for the 
methodology.  Vital?  Naw, a vital alignment would have most quattro buyers 
broke from all new rubber bushing installs; something you didn't even do.  
Please.

Scott Justusson