You're quite right - with no traffic and cars around you there is less wheel
spin but while batteling you are off the good part of the track and need as
much grip as you can find to get out of the corners.
At the moment I race with an open diff. You can be fast with it, but also
slip out on wet track parts and loose a race. A LSD is said to be easyer to
drive.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Babcock" <BillB@bnj.com>
To: <Gt6steve@aol.com>; <owner-fot@Autox.Team.Net>; <N197TR4@cs.com>
Cc: <fot@Autox.Team.Net>
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 5:34 PM
Subject: RE: LSD/Quaife
> That's pretty much the deal--you can get good lap times with a quaife, but
> you have to drive for the diff. Of course you can do the same thing with
an
> open diff. Heck, it's really good practice in car control to race a car
with
> an open diff. You learn exactly how to manage wheel weighting with the
> steering wheel and throttle (or maybe you don't and everyone passes you).
>
> The big advantage of the salisbury is that you simply drive the car.
> Traction is never an input. It might not be worth any improvement in lap
> time when you have an open track and nothing to do but practice being
> smooth. The moment when a salisbury or an open diff loses traction is when
> you're battling for a place or doing some late braking, dive for the apex
> move to hold off a fast car behind you. It's not Murphy's law--driving to
> keep your diff happy doesn't win races--unless you're Jimmy Clark or Mario
> and can keep all those variables in order while at the edge of control. We
> mere mortals will probably never get our best lap time struggling for
first
> place.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-fot@Autox.Team.Net
> To: N197TR4@cs.com
> Cc: fot@Autox.Team.Net
> Sent: 11/1/2004 6:18 AM
> Subject: Re: LSD/Quaife
>
> I've got to agree with Joe. I've got welded and a Quaife for the GT6
> and the
> only time the Quaife gives me an issue is when I've got it wrong. I
> prefer
> it to the welded everywhere but the price.
> Did they even make a Salisbury for the Herald based cars?
>
> Steve Smith
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