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Ergh. Quattro + decent-at-best all season tires = fail. Note to self: Get snow tires.

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Old 01-01-2009, 03:33 PM
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Default I never got a warm fuzzy with the center locked.. Felt too much like a pickup..

with a 100 lock, the rear is much more twitchy in my recollection, but then again, it's been over 10 years since I've owned a 4000q.
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they were trying to get run over by their own car
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Default it's a much different feeling and the rear sway definitely helps.. but when the snows fallin..

thats the car i run to
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Default you are so wrong with that statement, on many different levels... go study threshold

braking.
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correct!!
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Default the fastest, most tossable and predictable cars on snow/ice is a rally car and they have

open center diffs. - need I say more?
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the old groupe b's had permanently locked centres
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Default umm, you might want to check your facts on that as well...

you simply have the facts wrong about a locked centre diff and how that affects handling and how to get the most out each axle/corner of the car especially when you relate that to getting the car slowed and rotated.<ul><li><a href="http://www.stormloader.com/groupb/comparison.html">http://www.stormloader.com/groupb/comparison.html</a</li></ul>
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Default i said groupe b audis i dont know what others did..

i have talked mark wetzel (squid on most forums) about this.. there were variations in the setups.. but he has an ex-works 90q and a Cq that he setup.. both with groupe b drivetrains.. locked centres
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Default LOL, if you really believe that Audi Groupe B rally cars raced with permanently

locked centre diffs. you are permanently not teachable.


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