Originally posted by jastrckl
the SRT-4 uses equal length axles. It doesn't torque steer nearly as badly as the typical fwd car because of this. I found a DSM site with some examples of equal length advantages: here
That is one load of marketing crap. I've been down that road before. A high HP front driver will torque steer just as badly as a typical front driver. Remember, the typical front driver doesn't have the high torque and still torque steers. Add serious torque and even with a limited slip and equal length shafts, you better have some skills to keep it on the road. I've been down this road before and the only way to make it track acceptably is to go rear drive. Even the ricer drag cars that are running front drive wrestle with the wheel and those have a locked differential. If this wasn't the case, AWD cars would not have a rear differential bias in the power transfer. All these write ups on solving front wheel torque steer is a marketing ploy to try and overcome the objections to the handling horrors of high performance front wheel drive. Even the engineers will admit that FWD is OK for low power and certain conditions where weight over the front is good, but it is not well suited for high performance. All it takes is for a person to own a HP front driver and try every trick in the book, refusing to give up and the car still wants to turn around and bite you. Then you'll understand that you can't solve it, you can't really lessen it by that much, but it will hone your skills greatly.

