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Originally Posted by TatII
how is it easier to regain control for a FWD over a RWD? your tellin me that if your spinning out in a FWD you can recover easier then spinning out in a RWD? no way.
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When your old enough and experianced enough at driving enough of each drive type you will see how it works.
Its all about weight transfer, and moments of intertia.
Otherwise everything
2strokebloke plus a little more:
Torque steer occurs on any car where the axles are of an un-equal length, it dosnt mater if its FWD or RWD. Its a problem on high powered MR2s, and even some 4WD's when fitted with very large engines can be made to squirm if they are fitted with an off set diff.
The infamous Skyline GTR even suffers from it to a very small degree under very hard launchs as the frount diff is off set slightly to one side.
Most powerful FWD cars now days get around the problem by useing an intermediate shaft, which places an extra piece of axle inline with the gear box out put between the gear box and the final drivng axle on the longest side. All three axle lengths are then weighted to make sure both sides are balanced, and if done properly there will be zero torque steer.
From what I can tell Honda were the first to put it to use in a transversly mounted FWD car, being the B series powered Preludes.
Of course a FWD car fitted with an inline engine and a transaxle already has equal length drive shafts.