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RE: WTB: Prelude ATTS

To: Gemery@aol.com, autox@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: WTB: Prelude ATTS
From: Paul Hagger <paulhag@microsoft.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:06:42 -0700
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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