Differential Gear

Every system provides it owns benefits and drawbacks, and although the more difficult systems are generally superior they have an attached price that far exceeds the simpler systems.

The downside to the system is it is very complicated and very expensive, and typically only used for racing/track applications for its high speed cornering potential.

Torque Vectoring Differential 940x310The yellow arrow highlights the torque transfer occuring through the corner, generated by the artifical level of resistance becoming exerted by the TVD on the outside wheel. This allows for better acceleration out of the corner while the car’s turning abilitty is definitely increased.

A Torque Vectoring Differential is capable of channelling 100% of the offered torque through a single wheel when needed in the most extreme of circumstances.

With the TVD exerting more level of resistance onto the exterior wheels clutch, it tricks the machine into diverting more torque through it – increasing the amount power which can be applied and reducing the understeer skilled under acceleration out of a corner.

By continuing to apply this resistance through the part, as the automobile passes the apex and begins to accelerate out it’ll continue to override a standard multiway-LSD – which would again interpret the faster moving outside wheel as slipping and divert torque during acceleration to the within wheel, which it perceives as coupling China having more grip.

However, instead of releasing the resistance upon both wheels a TVD continues to activate the clutch externally wheel only – increasing the resistance skilled by that wheel and making the machine channel more torque through it. This imbalance of power to the outside encourages the automobile to turn in to the part sharper and reducing understeer.