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Yeah the trail braking part makes sense to me, but I can't think of why you'd be continuing to press the throttle when you're in the braking zone. Is this some
by tcoff91 4y ago
Yeah the trail braking part makes sense to me, but I can't think of why you'd be continuing to press the throttle when you're in the braking zone. Is this some kind of trick to prevent an automatic transmission from downshifting out of the power band while you're in the braking zone?
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- Toutouxc 4y agoNope, OP wasn't even talking about "trail braking" but about poor-man's-LSD-braking. When cornering hard, because of weight transfer, the inner wheel loses almost all traction, which makes it impossible to send any torque to it without wheel spin. This means that you can't really accelerate out of a sharp turn with an open-diff vehicle, because an open diff always sends the same torque to both wheels, i.e. if the inner wheel spins without much resistance, that resistance equals the torque sent to the outer wheel. A poor-man's-LSD-solution to this is applying a bit of brakes while also giving it a lot of gas. The brakes prevent the inner wheel from spinning freely and add artificial resistance, which increases the torque available at the outer wheel. Ideally you'd only want to apply the brake on the inner wheel, which is what some cars actually do automatically as a fake-LSD solution, but applying both and wasting engine power is better than nothing.