The one shot I saw of Roger's car in the autotest was going through
the slalom section. There was *no* wheelspin there.
The autotest had a couple of big loops at the top of the course
(still first gear), where there was inside wheelspin (i.e. no lockup).
Now a few caveats are worth noting:
1) this is 1st gear -- worst case for this type of LSD
2) The corners were very tight given the speed -- so the
inside wheel was very unladen
So I find it easy to believe that it would work better in saner
environments. Roger reported no wheelspin on the autocross so
that would support that hypothesis.
There was one person (who's judgment I trust) that didn't like
the design of the phantom grip. His main complaint was that it
loads the diff housing in ways it wasn't designed for. That is
a completely different argument from "does it work?"
Mike
-----Original Message-----
From owner-spridgets-mod at autox.team.net
[mailto:owner-spridgets-mod@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Roger Cotting
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 12:20 AM
To: spridgets@autox.team.net
Subject: Phantom Grip
I put mine in a 4.2 before the Sprite Spree. In
the Auto test I didn't think that we went fast
enough to test the Phantom Grip. Mike Gigante
said he didn't feel any lock up. The pictures
don't show any wheel spin. The one pic of the
car that shows some smoke at the back wheel
seems to me to be oil smoke. MG can comment here.
In the autocross at Lake Tahoe, the car had
wheel spin at two corners with me and Dan
Parsons driving. In the autocross at the Sprite
Spree, I noticed no wheel spin and felt lockup
in several corners. The pics don't show any
either.
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