yesterday was a damo day on the roads, lurvly stuff.

came to a t junction, put it on full right lock and gave it some beans, great stuff, started to straighten up and it felt like i was in a rear wheel drive car, the back end, as i was straightenin up, went sideways,fishtailed like, i just took foot off the gas,straigtened up and off i went.

but being 4x4 i shouldnt of got this should i ?

i had it all under control,no probs,but just thought, hmmm

any thoughts. ??

cheers

 

depends what car you have.A typeR will fishtail all day long with the diff open

 

scoobs 4wd isn't split 50:50.
There is always more power sent to the rear, so if you did indeed 'give it sum beans', then it will oversteer.

 

mines just a baby 95 WRX,nothing special.

the not 50/50 split explains it then, i always thought it was 50/50

ah well

cheers all

 

nope 60/40 on th wrx iirc

 

Yeah, 60:40 so they'll do that.
When I bought mine it had very bad Japanese winter tyres on which were lighting up in third gear. Because of this I wondered whether the AWD was working properly, but a quick launch on grass proved that it was fine....

 

And.,.... not only is it 60/40, but as the centre diff, is Viscous, it takes a while to do it's job.......

 

60/40,feels more like 70/30.

yesterday,full lock, front wheels stuck,rear went wahay,felt like being in an old beemer.

cool but would hate to see what happens if i did what i do and kept on the gas,would prob send me a whole 360 !

 

WTF...

Anything other than STi IS 50/50, its not an epicyclic and can't be anything but 50/50

Welcome to planet earth by the way!

Simon