<VV> drive wheels - Rolling wheels steer better ?

[Charles Lee at Prop Per]

Ah, yes, Buck's "road-hugging weight" !  ("When better cars are built, Buick 
will build them !" but until then, they will build junk, like everyone 
else.)

Sliding through the snow, wheels locked and turned hard left, I was heading 
straight for a line of stopped cars over a slight hill, in my Monza.

I kept sliding, notwithstanding wheels being turned.

That is, until I convinced my foot to get off the brake, when miraculously, 
the car headed where it was pointed and I went down next to the car I had 
nearly plowed !

Rolling wheels steer better ?

If I hadn't practiced that a hundred times in parking lots, I would never 
have been able to pull my foot off the brake !




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "airvair" <airvair at richnet.net>
To: "Dave Keillor" <dkeillor at tconcepts.com>
Cc: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 2:59 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> drive wheels


> Ah, yes! But STRAIGHT forward. Hopfully, that's the direction you'll
> want to go. If it isn't, well, so sorry...... (G)
>
> One evening at work, a guy leaving the (snowy) parking lot in a front
> driver went down the aisle, then cranked the wheel towards the gate. The
> car kept going STRAIGHT towards the fence! He backed off the throttle
> and kept the steering wheel cranked hard, and just before he reached the
> fence, the car shot off towards the gate. LOL
>
> I also have to disagree with Bill that "when you completely lose front
> traction, you also lose steering. But thanks to physics, that doesn't
> occur until quite a bit further up the speed scale." I totally lost
> directional ability in a Citation X-11 once just pulling away from a
> stop sign on engine torque alone! The car went straight, towards
> oncoming traffic, but at the last moment gained enough traction to shoot
> off towards the proper lane. And YES, the Buick wagon could be stuck on
> a flat sheet of ice. Been there, done that, many times. And you'd think
> that "Bertha Buhog" (as I called it) would be heavy enough to have SOME
> traction, but NOOoooooo......
>
> -Mark
>
> Dave Keillor wrote:
>>
>> The FWD will lose steering control, but will tend to keep going
>> forward.
>>
>>
>> Dave Keillor
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