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tryiian »
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Wed Oct 13, 2004 7:37 pm
its techinical... and it gets a lot of talk time but nobody ever addresses the specific issue, in an open differential setup, the one wheel with power just speeds up while the other (if the slide keeps up) gets just the power necessary for spinning/sliding. With the lsd working you`re getting well divided power between the wheels thats actually pushing you forward, so instead of the almost useless one-tire spinning and eating up all the power effect, you get angle and line control via the throttle pedal. Which is so essential to and characteristic of drift in the first place that the vast majority of people just throw down the "not drifting" accusation.
in summary, its not that a "drift" is impossible with pegleg, its just not controllable the same way. Which does get mentioned in the "drifting and not" definition arguments usually just never quite explained.