Felony Center drive

[Senton_Prime]

I'm not, u crack me up actually!

 

[grihn]

For anyone who's interested in actual information instead of a failed attempt at a d!ck measuring contest that's achieved nothing...

In simple terms, a center diff will make the vehicle behave like a 4x4 instead of an AWD car. In an on-road car, the benefits you get is higher top speed since you are effectively dividing the power equally between the front and rear and you're removing slippage in the driveline, and you gain straight line stability at very high speeds. You could argue better acceleration, but that's highly dependent on tire grip and might be noticed head-to-head in the right conditions, but it won't be overly noticeable. You can also technically do tighter donuts, but...donuts aren't an issue in this platform, so for me, it's negligible, and they get pretty uncontrollable if you're just spinning like a top and don't have good throttle control. It's easier to maintain a drift but harder to initiate a good drift because it wants to oversteer immediately (this is really neither a pro or con, you just have to learn how to drift with whatever center setup you're running). As for cons, you get far worse handling/turning with a lot of oversteer AND understeer (depends on how hot you come into a corner), you lose the ability to tune your power displacement ratio from front to rear, meaning you lose most of the ability to tune the vehicle to the conditions you'll be driving in. You get higher levels of instability on deceleration and sometimes you get strange behavior on slick surfaces, like if there's sand on the road. You get increased wear on tires (and far more uneven wear from cornering), you get more stress on driveline components, which CAN lead to premature failure, though in my experience it's bearings and drive cups...simply put, unless your goal is to achieve absolute maximum speeds possible, or you just want to hoon around and not have a lot of control, a center spool is not an upgrade from a diff. Thicker fluid in the center diff will kind of give you the best of both worlds, because it will lock the front and rear together more than stock fluids will, but will still give you some diff action and remove most of the cons of a spool. Generally anything from 500k-1M...this discrepancy is due to desired behavior and differences in driving style.

 

[Senton_Prime]

For anyone who's interested in actual information instead of a failed attempt at a d!ck measuring contest that's achieved nothing...

In simple terms, a center diff will make the vehicle behave like a 4x4 instead of an AWD car. In an on-road car, the benefits you get is higher top speed since you are effectively dividing the power equally between the front and rear and you're removing slippage in the driveline, and you gain straight line stability at very high speeds. You could argue better acceleration, but that's highly dependent on tire grip and might be noticed head-to-head in the right conditions, but it won't be overly noticeable. You can also technically do tighter donuts, but...donuts aren't an issue in this platform, so for me, it's negligible, and they get pretty uncontrollable if you're just spinning like a top and don't have good throttle control. It's easier to maintain a drift but harder to initiate a good drift because it wants to oversteer immediately (this is really neither a pro or con, you just have to learn how to drift with whatever center setup you're running). As for cons, you get far worse handling/turning with a lot of oversteer AND understeer (depends on how hot you come into a corner), you lose the ability to tune your power displacement ratio from front to rear, meaning you lose most of the ability to tune the vehicle to the conditions you'll be driving in. You get higher levels of instability on deceleration and sometimes you get strange behavior on slick surfaces, like if there's sand on the road. You get increased wear on tires (and far more uneven wear from cornering), you get more stress on driveline components, which CAN lead to premature failure, though in my experience it's bearings and drive cups...simply put, unless your goal is to achieve absolute maximum speeds possible, or you just want to hoon around and not have a lot of control, a center spool is not an upgrade from a diff. Thicker fluid in the center diff will kind of give you the best of both worlds, because it will lock the front and rear together more than stock fluids will, but will still give you some diff action and remove most of the cons of a spool. Generally anything from 500k-1M...this discrepancy is due to desired behavior and differences in driving style.

Sorry about that @grihn.. thanks for the info!!