Hey, any of you other 4WD drivers, I'm just wondering how tail-happy these cars normally are.
I've been driving on ice the last couple weekends, and the car seems to be extremely tailhappy. This is with the VLSCD-equipped GTX transmission that came with my front clip, not the normally-open, switch-lockable original one that came in the protege.
I drove a friend's Audi Quattro 20V, and noticed that when you give his car the gas, the front actually pulls you where you want to go. (torque and weight difference might make up for quite a bit of that, though.) I had a couple people drive mine, and they both said it oversteered like crazy, and took a lot of work to control.
I didn't get enough time on dirt/gravel before winter came around to know if it handles the same on that surface or not, but I'm wondering what happens when the diff itself 'wears out', being a viscous device.
Am I just being paranoid that my drivetrain's going south, or is it naturally this way? Is it just the surface of ICE, allowing for slippage everywhere?
Is there really a way to test and make sure that the 43/57 Front/Rear diff split is actually functioning?
yeah.....
anyway, in-car video to come, as soon as I spend enough time at home to get it uploaded...
--sarge
I've been driving on ice the last couple weekends, and the car seems to be extremely tailhappy. This is with the VLSCD-equipped GTX transmission that came with my front clip, not the normally-open, switch-lockable original one that came in the protege.
I drove a friend's Audi Quattro 20V, and noticed that when you give his car the gas, the front actually pulls you where you want to go. (torque and weight difference might make up for quite a bit of that, though.) I had a couple people drive mine, and they both said it oversteered like crazy, and took a lot of work to control.
I didn't get enough time on dirt/gravel before winter came around to know if it handles the same on that surface or not, but I'm wondering what happens when the diff itself 'wears out', being a viscous device.
Am I just being paranoid that my drivetrain's going south, or is it naturally this way? Is it just the surface of ICE, allowing for slippage everywhere?
Is there really a way to test and make sure that the 43/57 Front/Rear diff split is actually functioning?
yeah.....
anyway, in-car video to come, as soon as I spend enough time at home to get it uploaded...
--sarge
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