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Re: [GMCnet] Limited Slip Differential [message #238070 is a reply to message #238030] Thu, 30 January 2014 08:29 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Matt Colie is currently offline  Matt Colie   United States
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Bob de Kruyff wrote on Wed, 29 January 2014 21:44

LSD's in FWD cars are mild when it comes to limiting speed differentials. FDW is very sensitive to any tendency to control the natural action of the differential. When we first brought out the 1980 X cars, we welded the diffs so that we could run them on 2 wheels for PR purposes. One of our drivers suffered a broken arm when the steering violently whipped back to the straight ahead position. Modern electronic LSD's make it much more viable for FWD.

Bob.

I heard about this from a contract test driver and often wondered what really happened. He was not the driver in the incident, but was close to it.

Matt


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