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LSD Limited Slip Differential, IIRC it moves the power to the wheel with most traction thus stopping or limiting wheel spin. Please correct me if i'm wrong
 
ca9phoenix said:
i'm by no means a boy racer but i still like to embarrass them when they try to beat my car off the line at the lights and nip infront of me! but then i pay through the nose for my insurance cos i do 30k a year just commuting!
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Lol, obviously so NOT a boy racer !!!
 
Dashik said:
Lol, obviously so NOT a boy racer !!!
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How VERY dare you :p

(anyway i can't be a boy racer i dont drive a corsa/clio/nova/fiesta/saxo etc) and my car is not modified in any way (ignoring the lpg conversion)
 
Theres a set of lights in the town I live on a 40mph D/Carriage way, and you can straight on or right at them.. I normally go in the right hand lane when theres no one there and people always seem to play follow the leader... Was next to a Saxo earlier on in the Mini with a bunch of idiots I went to school with obviously smoking something in the car, so I showed them my tail pipe and I saw them giving me the finger and all sorts in my rear view as I left em for dead :D
 
I'm not a slow driver, I drive safely but I always like to "make progress". It's annoying sometimes when some drivers get the wrong impression when I move off the lights or overtake them thinking I want to race. I get a lot of people trying to race me but I just ignore them now
 
ca9phoenix said:
LSD Limited Slip Differential, IIRC it moves the power to the wheel with most traction thus stopping or limiting wheel spin. Please correct me if i'm wrong
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A device that people with FWD will claim solves all FWD's limitations

But doesn't :p ;)
 
james.miller said:
your quite right, of course. if i didnt know, id probably search for something like......'lsd cars'

http://www.google.co.uk/search?num=...:official&hs=RQR&q=lsd+cars&btnG=Search&meta=

whoop, easy peasy :cool:
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God forbid someone would ask a question. Have a rolled eye for being so pedantic :rolleyes:.




As for the OP, a few less revs and feed it through the clutch. Find your biting point, and instead of just letting the clutch up in one quick go, bring it up to the point where you start moving without spinning, then gradually bring it up further whilst hitting the gas hard. If that doesn't work something's wrong. Tyres/clutch are knackered, or you can't drive.
 
ca9phoenix said:
... i can't be a boy racer i dont drive a corsa/clio/nova/fiesta/saxo etc) and my car is not modified in any way (ignoring the lpg conversion)
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Hmm, you've modified your car to make it slower. Sounds like a boy racer to me :p
 
SB118 said:
Hmm, you've modified your car to make it slower. Sounds like a boy racer to me :p
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LMAO :D it might be a little slower but my fuel costs were cut from £75 a week to £35... no wait now i sound like a boy racer and a student!!!!!
 
Gilly said:
Not really. You must be doing something very wrong to break traction a lot in a 1.8 Focus :)
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It is easy to wheelspin in most FWD cars at this time of the year with roads tending to be greasy. In the past I've driven things like Fiesta 1.1Ls and Cavalier 1.6s which wheelspinned with little provocation.

I know the Cav I have at the moment wheelspins incredibly easily even off the clutch. It's the roads at this time of the year.
 
Stonedofmoo said:
A device that people with FWD will claim solves all FWD's limitations

But doesn't :p ;)
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Solve, no, help yes. 2 wheel drive is a lot better than 1 wheel drive. ;)

The LSD doesn't put power to the wheel with most traction (unfortunately). It simply limits how much faster one wheel can go than the other.

My car does this by having a viscous compond between the wheels. So if one wheel looses traction and spins, this viscosity means that a certain amount of power is still going to the other wheel. Without it, if one wheel spins, the other side has virtually no power going to it at all.
 
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