The FWD Renault which won the Corsica World Rally Championship event this
year (beating all the Mitsu/Toyota/Ford/Subaru 300hp AWD cars) had a
traction control system using steering angle and wheel speed as two (of the
many) inputs.
-paul
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gemery@aol.com [SMTP:Gemery@aol.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 01, 1999 12:30 PM
> To: autox@autox.team.net
> Cc: jamies@mrj.com
> Subject: Re: WTB: Prelude ATTS
>
> Jamie Sculerati writes:
> > Nope -- it's not a Torsen. It's sort of a pre-emptive differential --
> power
> > distribution in the transaxle is governed by steering angle and wheel
> speed.
>
> Yuck! Why?
>
> I suppose, then, that they use viscuous differential? Or how else would
> they
> control the torque distribution with those inputs? On the surface, it
> still
> sounds
> like a Torsen, only not nearly as effective.
>
> George Emery
> gemery@aol.com
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