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Well, a limited slip differential is used in all forms of autosports. It was made for racing. It acts as an open differential when you are moving slowly so you can easily park the car without skidding the tires. If you wield your differential together, you will have a hard time turning at low speeds.
When you start to speed up, the differential starts to lock your two driving wheels together. This helps when you are trying to get through a tight corner at high speeds. This helps because when you corner at faster then normal speeds, your inside drive wheel tends to lift, and an open differential will tend to send the power to the wheel with least resistance, which is the wheel in the air in this case.
When you force the two wheels to lock together it will be uniformly powered. Which means the wheel that has contact or the most grip with the road will still propel the car through the corner.
In the case of a rear wheel drive drifting, a limited slip differential should help the driver break loose BOTH wheels at the same time so that he does not get one wheel gripping and another wheel spinning free.
In the case of a FRONT wheel drive drifting or not, the limited slip differential will help him/her keep the car going through the turns.
While that whole explanation was off topic, I would like to tell rulebeel to be careful not to attempt straightening out the car with the throttle when performing a slide on a front wheel drive. If you are not careful with the throttle, you will spin the car the opposite direction very violently.
When you start to speed up, the differential starts to lock your two driving wheels together. This helps when you are trying to get through a tight corner at high speeds. This helps because when you corner at faster then normal speeds, your inside drive wheel tends to lift, and an open differential will tend to send the power to the wheel with least resistance, which is the wheel in the air in this case.
When you force the two wheels to lock together it will be uniformly powered. Which means the wheel that has contact or the most grip with the road will still propel the car through the corner.
In the case of a rear wheel drive drifting, a limited slip differential should help the driver break loose BOTH wheels at the same time so that he does not get one wheel gripping and another wheel spinning free.
In the case of a FRONT wheel drive drifting or not, the limited slip differential will help him/her keep the car going through the turns.
While that whole explanation was off topic, I would like to tell rulebeel to be careful not to attempt straightening out the car with the throttle when performing a slide on a front wheel drive. If you are not careful with the throttle, you will spin the car the opposite direction very violently.
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