jporky99

i saw a section on motorweek about the MSP and they talked about its' torque steer.


wu7 7eh f00k i5 70rqu3 5733r?

Boston

Try this:

http://mcasco.com/qa_ts.html

kc5zom

Floor your car and drop the clutch. You will find out.

jporky99

i don't need to do that in order for me to know what happens, which is alot of wheelhopping madness.

midnightblue97

Basically, in a front drive car it happens because the drive axles are different lengths and the longer drive axle kinda twists a little bit. The "torque steering" is caused by one drive axle (the short one) twisting less than the other. If you pop the clutch, you may notice that you've got to hold the steering wheel to keep from turning slightly, one way or the other. Sometimes car companies will try to remedy this by making the short axle hollow and the long one solid to try and equalize, (for lack of a better term) the twisting to eliminate, or at least minimize the torque steer.

hihoslva

That was a detailed explanation (some of which is true - lol).

But the short version is that when you accelerate quickly, the car veers left or right if you don't make an effort to control it.

~HH

jporky99

ah ok ty for the extra info.

and wutz up hiho and midnight! more of us protegeclub transferers hehe