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ORIGINAL: Tam Lin Last year being driven round Silverstone in a 944TurboS with diff, I was amazed at some of the oversteer angles that were still recoverable, which I certainly wouldn't have been able to do in mine. But then, that was probably 99% driver ability and 1% diff...
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Yes I found the opposite to be true with the open diff turbo I had. The back wheels felt totally inpedendant and it would only get to a certain angle even with full throttle, then after a few second you felt all the power being lost and transferred to the inside wheel, the back end would actually come back a bit. In a LSD equipped car the back end moves as one lump behind you, you get much stronger drive but if you keep your foot on the throttle without backing off when it starts to slip it will never get to that point, it just pendulums out and spins you.
 
Well we are lucky with our 50/50 balance in many ways. This is clearly where it's at it's best. The rear engine cars are thought of as a poor design made better through years of engineering improvements. However they are better than our cars in some instances. Punch out of corners being a great example. You can see this in the clips in a few corners but in others we have a bit of superiority. Being able to catch our cars on or after the limit is also another high point for us and one that we clearly exceed the 911s. The day before the clips shown here, we had a practice day of sorts. Hillclimb and short circuit. I was losing the tail of my car all day and it finally occurred to me that I still had the rear sway bar set on full hard from when we run in our version of Gymkhanas. It was a lot of fun but on the track, but not so fast. However the fact that I could catch my car 9 times out of 10 vs many other cars wasn't lost on me.
 
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ORIGINAL: Tam Lin Last year being driven round Silverstone in a 944TurboS with diff, I was amazed at some of the oversteer angles that were still recoverable, which I certainly wouldn't have been able to do in mine. But then, that was probably 99% driver ability and 1% diff...
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Yes I found the opposite to be true with the open diff turbo I had. The back wheels felt totally inpedendant and it would only get to a certain angle even with full throttle, then after a few second you felt all the power being lost and transferred to the inside wheel, the back end would actually come back a bit. In a LSD equipped car the back end moves as one lump behind you, you get much stronger drive but if you keep your foot on the throttle without backing off when it starts to slip it will never get to that point, it just pendulums out and spins you.
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Think a certain amount of that depends on the tyres and suspension, I think Ben you have been sat beside me sideways in my car with LSD, I find it really easy to control with the current setup, however when I first had it with worn dampers and it would fishtail and catch me out in extremes (Croft and castle Coombe spring to mind!)
 
Yes your car is still one of only two LSD equipped 944 turbos I've been sideways in, both very smooth drivers, both very smooth drifts. Very different in feel to the various M series BMWs I've spent most of my time drifting in. I will be able to comment properly soon as I'll have my own LSD equipped turbo[:)]
 
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