Bit sideways
Bit sideways
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DamoTVR

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19 posts

280 months

Wednesday 17th April 2002
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Pulling away in my lovely chimaera 500 at 2000rpm meant a little spin (ouch my wallet). But the car went slightly sideways! I was facing straight but on a slight incline (very slight) people have said my be diff probs?

Any ideas?

Cheers

BTW: new owner and can't stop grinning

Damian Smith

M@H

11,298 posts

288 months

Wednesday 17th April 2002
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Pulling away in my lovely chimaera 500 at 2000rpm meant a little spin (ouch my wallet). But the car went slightly sideways! I was facing straight but on a slight incline (very slight) people have said my be diff probs?

Any ideas?

Cheers

BTW: new owner and can't stop grinning

Damian Smith




Have you checked your Tyre pressures..? I always try and start with the cheap options

Cheers
Matt.

shpub

8,507 posts

288 months

Wednesday 17th April 2002
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Have you checked your Tyre pressures..? I always try and start with the cheap options

How about the driver?
A 500 at 2000 rpm has several hundred lbs/foot of torque or put another way, the same torque as Cosworths etc have at peak. Power is nothing without control.

Steve
www.tvrbooks.co.uk

jellison

12,803 posts

293 months

Wednesday 17th April 2002
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you should try nailing it in first on full lock....
Nice. You need alot of space. These things are mean't to be drivenm sideways - Alot...............

ATG

22,262 posts

288 months

Wednesday 17th April 2002
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But the car went slightly sideways! I was facing straight but on a slight incline (very slight) people have said my be diff probs?


No, no, no ... not the diff ... it was the facing straight bit. Full lock, rev to 5000 and dump. You won't have any probs with only a going a bit sideways anymore.

Graham

16,376 posts

300 months

Wednesday 17th April 2002
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mmm that reminds me


couple of weeks ag came out of the sports centre after playing squash...

a few of the max power boys were doing little wheel spins in the car park..

we get in the chimaera.. i look at AL who rapidly does up the seat belt when he see's my grin

start her up full lock, dump the clutch 4 complete spins on the spot then bugger off quickly...

Heee heee heee heee heee heee heee heee heee

thats how to go a lot sideways in a baby 4ltr...



G

GreenV8s

30,926 posts

300 months

Wednesday 17th April 2002
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Pulling away in my lovely chimaera 500 at 2000rpm meant a little spin (ouch my wallet). But the car went slightly sideways! I was facing straight but on a slight incline (very slight) people have said my be diff probs?




Those people are talking rubbish. Once the rear wheels are spinning they produce no sideways grip at all. Imagine replacing the back wheels with a couple of castors and you get the idea. The car becomes unstable and the back will inevitably drift sideways one way or the other. If there's a slope or something to provoke it it will head sideways quite rapidly. This is nothing to do with the diff, it's just the way things work with rear wheel drive cars when you spin both back wheels.

(If your LSD wasn't working properly, you might find that only wheel spins. The car is actually *less* likely to drift sideways when this happens so in a way you've got evidence here that the LSD is working.)

Cheers,
Peter Humphries (and a green V8S)

rthierry

684 posts

297 months

Thursday 18th April 2002
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mmm that reminds me
couple of weeks ag came out of the sports centre after playing squash...


So the car was cold then?