Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 08:35:50 -0500 From: "Walt Kienzle" <wkienzlenopsam.com> Subject: Re: RWD.
Ah! your definition of torque steer is different from mine and probably others that say they haven't experienced torque steer in a 9000. When one tire loses traction it is the differential that is the issue, not the driveshaft length or anything associated with the drive shafts. Rear wheel drive cars offer "positraction" to eliminate this problem. I understand that Quaife transmissions also include this feature for the FWD applications. That is one of the features that makes Quaife products desirable. BTW, does anyone know of a Quaife fitted to a 9000 and if it is easy to do? I currently have two FWD cars with over 200 hp that don't exhibit significant torque steer. I also owned a lesser powered FWD, Mazda GLC (323 in Europe) that didn't have torque steer, so I didn't really know what people were complaining about -- until I drove my boss's Acura Legend (a high priced Honda coupe). I was stopped at a light waiting to make a left turn. When I stepped on the gas after the light changed green, the steering wheel jumped to the left by itself and I thought I was going to make a "U" turn. That is torque steer - the torque from the engine is making the steering wheel turn without input from the driver. Walt Kienzle 1991 9000T 1990 Ford Taurus SHO "Grunff" <grunffnopsam.com> wrote in message news:3DA0B8D7.7010602nopsam.com... > Goran Larsson wrote: > > > Yes they are. There is a separate shaft from the differential to the > > right driveshaft, just to avoid the torque steer problem. If the car > > pulls to the left then something else must be causing it. I have never > > had any problems with torque steer on 9000[1] or 9-5, both of them with > > "more-than-standard" torque and hp. > > That shaft is exactly what I'm referring to - it results in an unequal > left/right setup, which some say causes torque steer. > > I'm not getting into the torque steer argument. The only 'torque steer' > I've experienced with my Saabs (90016vT and 9kT) is when it's clear that > the tyres are loosing traction. So say the left side looses some > traction while accelerating hard, the car pulls to the right. Nothing to > do with driveshaft length. > > -- > Grunff >
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