The wheel lift on my TR-3 was why I had the emergency brake hooked up only
to the right rear wheel when we were not allowed to have limited slip diffs.
You bang down hard into the corner make the wheel lift, then modulate the
hand brake so that you have good drive out of the corner. The corner workers
used to come to me saying that the right rear wheel was stopped when I was
cornering hard and that smoke was coming off the left rear. Yup, like I
said, works good. Works very well. I adjusted the handbrake so that when
pulled on full it would just hold the rear wheel thus making it easy to
handle during a corner. ( make sure you have that wheel in the air though)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert M. Lang" <lang@isis.mit.edu>
To: "Tony Drews" <drewst03@home.com>
Cc: "Amici Triumphi" <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 6:14 AM
Subject: Re: Open diff
> On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Tony Drews wrote:
>
> > Ok, Ok :) (I think my previous owner tried that judging by the lack of
> > lubricant in the diff)
> > Let me rephrase the question. Anyone running stock spider gears, no
limited
> > slip, and not locked / welded?
>
> If you are super smooth - you might get away with the open diff.
>
> I am not super smooth, and I can easily spin the inside wheel on my open
> diff autocrosser. That's a TR6 with a stiff bar in the back.
>
> I have a quaiffe in the TR6 race car, and I get wheel lift with that car
> too, but only in extreme corner loading. In fact I have some video where
> you can hear the wheel "unload" - even with the quaife.
>
> If you have some budget - you should look for a posi of some type.
>
> > - Tony
>
> regards,
> rml
> TR6's one open one quaiffed and a Detroit Locker _somewhere_!
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