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Old 2004-07-29, 04:31 PM   #38
Dean
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Probably the funniest thing about the week was that I appear to like my car looser than all 4 of the instructors as they all had a bit of an issue controlling the back end at times while driving the car.

One of them had a really nice high speed spin that she is unlikely to soon forget...

The most insightful comment was that I may have it set that way to compensate for overdriving the entrance to corners to turn the push into drift...

While I agree with that to an extent, and am now being wary of my entry speed, I also think it has to do with how to properly drive an AWD car. (Or anything with viscous or torque based drive lines) Where they would often lift, I would go a bit deeper, and brake, or left foot brake.

At least with many AWD power trains, lifting is very bad as it allows all the viscous or torque based differentials/couplings to "unlock", whereas under power or braking that is much less liklely to happen IMHO.

I should probably make this a seperate thread and see if I can lure Gary into the discussion by saying somethig really wrong and stupid.
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