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Old 01-24-2005, 07:27 PM   #36 (permalink)
Nimisys
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Quote:
Originally Posted by krwlz
You know, this car has a limited slip diff in the rear end, that tightens up to a full lock up at the hardest cornering, allowing it to be a drifting dream.
thats not how LSD rear ends work, the amount of lockup is perportional to the amount of torque input. the perportion of lock up to torque input is called the ramp angle, which is set as part of the design. the steeper the ramp angle the less torque input is needed to fully lockup the differential, and once fully locked, no additional amount of torque input will result in any more lockup. locked is locked. Ramp angles can be sperate howver for the drive/coast sides of the ring gear, meanign you can have a seperate ramp angle for braking and acceleration. Next the differential can only transfer torque form the faster turning wheel to the slower turning one. the slower turning wheel will always be the inside wheel. so when you transfer torque to it form the outside wheel you are increasing understeer. mid corner your torque transfer is low as the turn radius is steady, so you have no need for lockup. at corner exit, where the torque input is increased, is where the LSD shines, as torque gets transfered form the inside tire to the outside tire creating oversteer. this is due form the vehicle straightening out and the smaller difference in speed between the two tires. Finally a LSD will always create understeer while braking.

so as you can see, what you are saying, A) is not possible, and B) not benefical.
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