Limited Slip on FWD
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02-06-2008, 07:46 AM
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Re: Limited Slip on FWD
Anyone having driven a car with a slightly warped front rotor can tell you that power stearing does NOT insulate the stearing wheel from fairly severe rotational vibration during even moderate braking.
Put one front wheel on ice and the other on a friction surface and during acceleration with LSD of any time the disparate L/R torque "feedback" to the stearing wheel will be substantial. Now do an accelerating turn with the same situation and you can break fingers.
That's why the automotive industry doesn't expose an unwary and/or inexperienced John Q Public to the effects of LSD on a non-off-road FWD or F/AWD.
Put one front wheel on ice and the other on a friction surface and during acceleration with LSD of any time the disparate L/R torque "feedback" to the stearing wheel will be substantial. Now do an accelerating turn with the same situation and you can break fingers.
That's why the automotive industry doesn't expose an unwary and/or inexperienced John Q Public to the effects of LSD on a non-off-road FWD or F/AWD.
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