Lsd's and Drifting

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A very critical mechanism in drifting is the proper addition of power. If you need more drift, add more gas; less drift, ease up on the gas. In a drift, the weight is transferred to the outside wheel by a large amount. Adding power without an LSD will cause the inside wheel to spin but have much less effect on drift. When the weight is transferred to the outside wheel, it has a great deal of grip, so using power input that only affects the inside wheel does very little to affect the quality of the drift.

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Its more like a delicate dance. Using the power, brakes, and steering, you can control the amount of drift and the amount of speed. It stands to reason that a certain percentage of your energy is wasted to tire skidding, but depending on how you control that balance you can alter the percentage of wasted energy in a skid vs used energy for forward motion. Obiously in straight line travel, 100% of the torque that makes it to the ground is utilized for forward motion. In a 90 degree sideways skid, 0% is contributed to forward momentum. In drifting, you are somewhere in the middle.

The LSD simply allows you to more accurately transfer the power where you want it. In a drift, since the outside wheel is so heavily loaded, applying power with an LSD still splits power between the two wheels. Without the LSD, you're right. It will do less since it will remove traction from the inside wheel which already has almost none to start with. I've been in a car without an LSD and tried a good powerslide. The series of events that happened went like this. I steered hard, floored the gas. Enough torque made it to both wheels to get the back a little sideways. The force of the skid loaded the outside tire (causing it to hook up) and unloaded the inside tire. The inside tire started spinning pretty wildly which caused all of my torque to go up in smoke. The car therefore slowed down enough that it didn't skid anymore and I was suddenly aimed directly at a Volvo :)

Now if someone could just design an open diff that supplied the outside wheel with power, they'd be a millionaire.

sdasd

Yes they would be a millionaire.

But there is no need to tell curtis because he already knows that is pretty much impossible to design an open dif that puts power to the wheel with traction.

Thats why i will be a millionaire when i finish my smurf slip differential. It has a smurf inside that flips a lever sending power to the wheel with traction. I am a genious.

Would Smurfs be in the same union that Yahooty is? Yahooty is the little man in your fridge that turns the light on and off.

I'll bet they get great benefits :D