Torque steer....

Not sure, but is this when you fully accelerate the car from standstill, and the front wheels are scrabbling squealing for grip? This really pisses me off i have to say being a front wheel drive I suppose you get that. Is there anyway to reduce it at all? Im only running stock tyres at the moment. Is this a common thing with all front wheel drives? U cant really beat AWD or even rear wheel drive. It just helps when you need to rip it from a start to get in front of someone or something....

Do any of u that have 18inch or 17inch wheels that are lowerd have this problem still? Like can you full on floor it and it still spins?



Chris

[teK--]

Torque steer is when you are cornering under hard throttle, and the tyres don't want to turn (understeer). You can try better quality tyres, fitting a camber kit and dialing in some negative camber, fitting an anti-lift castor bush kit, or for lots of $$$, a limited slip diff.

[Killbilly]

Not sure, but is this when you fully accelerate the car from standstill, and the front wheels are scrabbling squealing for grip? This really pisses me off i have to say being a front wheel drive I suppose you get that. Is there anyway to reduce it at all? Im only running stock tyres at the moment. Is this a common thing with all front wheel drives? U cant really beat AWD or even rear wheel drive. It just helps when you need to rip it from a start to get in front of someone or something....

Do any of u that have 18inch or 17inch wheels that are lowerd have this problem still? Like can you full on floor it and it still spins?



Chris

Umm...if you flatten a rwd with the same power you'd get spinning too...

If you're talking about torque steer itself, that's when the steering wheel gets pulled to one side because one wheel is driving. There's no need to spark an awd/rwd/fwd debate, they all have their pro's and con's.

But to reduce torque steer, fit a strut brace, the flexing in the strut towers helps torque steer exist, fitting a strut brace stop the flexing.

There are other ways but I cant think of them off the top of my head right now...too tired

[ash3]

sif not want to drop the clutch in first at 6000rpm and change lanes with out touching the steering wheel

[Killbilly]

tek, you just called torque steer understeer when they are two completely different things... :?:

[teK--]

Oh I did too :: I hope I pay more attention at the meet later (cue for other people to stay the f away from my tail )

[Killbilly]

!!! I was thinking "no...tek knows what he's talking about..why the hell did he say that!?"
:: ::

We all have our bad days

[teK--]

I woke up about 5 times last night because I was hungry but couldn't find the willpower to make something to eat. End result was getting about 5 hours sleep and still hungry. Need like a long-range stomach or a camel's hump.

[Killbilly]

wouldnt mind a hump myself actually

[teK--]

Camel hump cleavage \/