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Re: Re: I know what you mean
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Why does everyone continue to believe that the torque split is 90f/10r??? The Road and Track SVX manual says plain as day that the Torque Split is 60f/40r and it can vary as much as 90% to the rear or front.... It is 60/40 because that is about what the weight distrabution on an LSi model is... Please everyone just look at the Road and Track SVX book and you will see plain as day what it is...
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Re: Fwd AWD ?
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Re: Re: Re: I know what you mean
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But if you could tell me which pages to look at, I'd be happy to read where it says that. Still, I wouldn't take everything that book says as gospel without corroborating evidence. I've owned my SVX for long enough that I don't actually remember where I first read that torque split was typically 90/10 and up to 50/50. But I'm pretty sure that the most it'll transfer to the rear is 50% - not the 90% you claim. Edit: I just looked and the R&T Guide does claim that, under normal driving conditions, the torque split is 60/40. But in the same sidebar they claim that the car uses the ABS sensors to detect wheelspin and this isn't the case. The car uses speed sensors 1 and 2 in the transmission to detect wheelspin. That same sidebar claims that the car can shift enough torque to make it rear-wheel biased. But no numbers are given and at this point I consider their information suspect. Again, I'm almost 100% positive that the US SVX is only capable of putting 50% of its power to the rear. Subaru tends to tune its US-bound cars towards the understeer side of things.
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When the 1992 SVX was introduced, it was advertised with an estimated top speed of 143mph. Some people claim to have gone faster than that. I took my '93 to a little over 130 (GPS verified). That was plenty fast enough, and the car was still accellerating. But, starting with the 1994 MY SVXs, Subaru electronically limited the cars to the estimated 143mph top speed. I would venture a guess that, without the extra weight of the back half of the drivetrain, FWD SVXs might have a slightly higher top speed. Unfortunately, we can't test this because all FWD SVXs were built after Subaru introduced the electronic speed limiter.
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I never knew the top speed was est. at 143 mph. I have had my 92 up to 135 without much effort, now I have a number to shoot for. Hopefuly the local police will understand.
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Harvey.
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i know that when driving mine in slippery (read snow and rain) with the crappy tires that i have on it, the car is very much so neutral. Although there are some rare instances (probably me making a mistake) where it really just plows forward, with and without the ABS going. its really easy to also get it to oversteer especially around tighter turns. I wish i had more experience with other cars, but i know that the one time i had the FWD fuse in, it felt a fair amount faster from 40-80 in second gear, but off the line you spin the tires through half of first gear.
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They took a bit of this one and a bit of that one and came up with the end result, that wasn't either. They weren't up to the job in a technical sense. Harvey.
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I have a 1994 FWD and reached 145mph at two diffrent times with the auto transmission. To my surprise I was actually able to push 140mph with the 5sp manual last month considering the low gearing I now have. I've never driven an AWD SVX but as for my FWD, once I get full traction the acceleration is incredible
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It's really no big deal, man, and it doesn't make an SVX any less cool. It's actually really cool, because it's so adaptable so quickly. Yes, it's 90/10 in some situations, like cruising at a constant speed in good traction conditions. But it's not difficult to make it shift torque to the rear, and it does it very quickly. I've driven plenty of cars that don't do it very quickly. The SVX's VTD setup is very quick to react - far faster, in fact, than the viscous setup in the 5MT. Look, whether or not you want to believe something isn't the issue. I'll have to find some definitive info on the setup in the SVX...it might be in the FAQ, I'm not sure.
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That's cool... Yea I have noticed a little pause between the transfer of power fully to the rear in the Manual... Wouldn't mind having the STi's Mechanical front and rear Diff's... That would be awesome...
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2020 Subaru Outback Touring - Wife's first Subaru 2005 Volvo V70R - 5-cylinder love! :Heart: ** SOLD **1998 Subaru Legacy 2.5GT Wagon - MOST RELIABLE car I've ever owned ** SOLD **2006Subaru WRXSTi (Former "Boxer4Racing.com / Continential Tire" STi) - Built EJ22t block / EJ207 JDM STi "big port heads" - 9,000rpm MONEY PIT!!! ** SOLD ** 1995 "Tree-Hugger Green" SVX L AWD(5 MT) --- "Gumby" 130K miles #399 in MY95, my original love... |
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