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Old Dec 31, 2001 | 07:27 PM
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Are Front Wheel Drive Cars Positive Traction?

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Old Dec 31, 2001 | 07:37 PM
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Not all of them.
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Old Dec 31, 2001 | 08:03 PM
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Not the ones I drove.
Here is my old 94 Sunbird 3.1 V6.
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Old Dec 31, 2001 | 08:20 PM
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some of the hiperf ones were - my 92 maxima was

. Its usually referred to as a vicious coupling.
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Old Dec 31, 2001 | 08:38 PM
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Hey, Zephyr,

Nice, umm, uh, shoes. Be careful with those - you could break something or put an eye out.

You don't have all that plastic on the back of your T/A, right?

BTW - Some FWD cars have slip limiters on the drive axles. Momma's got an Astro 4WD with a posi axle on the rear, which sounds like overkill, too.
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Old Jan 1, 2002 | 03:05 AM
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Originally posted by Vader
Hey, Zephyr,

Nice, umm, uh, shoes. Be careful with those - you could break something or put an eye out.

You don't have all that plastic on the back of your T/A, right?

BTW - Some FWD cars have slip limiters on the drive axles. Momma's got an Astro 4WD with a posi axle on the rear, which sounds like overkill, too.
Uh, dude, that was one of my old girlfriends.
And them stickers, I took them off of the Sunbird after a few months and no, there are no stickers on the back of my T/A.

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Old Jan 1, 2002 | 05:29 AM
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Is that little yellow car on the right side of the pic yours, Zepher? =p Yeah, the one with those tight blue wheels!
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Old Jan 1, 2002 | 06:01 AM
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Is that little yellow car on the right side of the pic yours, Zepher? =p Yeah, the one with those tight blue wheels!
That yellow car hauls ***. Acceleration is awesome on the 4" wheels.
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Old Jan 1, 2002 | 12:41 PM
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Astro 4WD with a posi axle on the rear, which sounds like overkill, too.
Now why would that be overkill? I wish I had a posi
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Old Jan 1, 2002 | 04:27 PM
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positive traction as apposed to what, negative traction? if your referring to limited slips, only honda/acura was available with a limited slip differential and only on certain models. gm sold a limited slip for the getrag trans through gm performance parts, but it's since long gone. since there is little axle twist from side to side, it will commonly spin both just as most independent suspension set ups will spin both on a equal traction surface.
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Old Jan 1, 2002 | 06:04 PM
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That isn't true. Go back a little further, in the mid-eighties, the Shelby Dodge turbo cars all had limited slip transaxles. I've still got my 86 Shelby Charger, and it'll pour smoke out of both front wheel wells pretty respectably. Dodge was making powerful front drivers before Japan even got the idea.

(Still drives the wrong wheels though, in my opinion).
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