Sunfire? One wheel drive?

[drifter7]

i heard from my tech ed teacher that sunfires are one wheel drive, one of the front ones and thats why they leave one skidmark in a burnout. i didnt believe him at first but he is a tech ed teacher does anyone know for sure?

 

[xAkirax2004]

Erm...Arent they Front wheel?

You tech-ed teacher was smoking crank.

 

[XzifT]

dads sunfire left two.

 

[miata13B]

It is the fact that the sunfire has an open differential that is causing the car to be powered by one wheel. To check this out get the car on a lift and put the car in neutral. . . spin the front right tire and look at the front left, you'll see it spin the opposite direction if I remember this correctly.

 

[Duke]

What he said ^^^^^^. So is any standard Civic, Accord, Camry, Cavalier, Eclipse, Lancer, Focus, etc. etc. etc.

Most rear wheel drive cars are like this, too. Limited-slip differentials are really on the rare side in street car applications, outside of performance cars.

 

[miata13B]

Originally posted by neon_duke
What he said ^^^^^^.

Most rear wheel drive cars are like this, too. Limited-slip differentials are really on the rare side in street car applications, outside of performance cars.

OMG, I can't believe it, I would never have thought I would have seen a post by the Duke stated 'what he said' about one of my posts. . . I will get banned for this reply . . .

Anyways I rememeber back in Automotive classes in high school I took we had a test halfway through the class before we got to the drivetrain and for an extra-credit question he asked which way would the wheesl spin with an open differential spin with only moving the right side. . .

 

[retsmah]

Originally posted by XzifT
dads sunfire left two.

Indeed. In an open diff car you can still leave two nice black strips on the ground. or, in the case of a sunfire, maybe a couple of little black spots. The only time you really get this one wheel drive effect is if the two wheels have different amounts of traction, and even then both wheels are getting power, it will just look like only one is because only one is leaving a big skid mark.

 

[Fenrir51]

Sunfire has one bad interrior.

 

[miata13B]

Originally posted by Fenrir51
Sunfire has one bad interrior.

thanks for the insight, what do you think of the drivetrain???

 

[Fenrir51]

Originally posted by miata13B
thanks for the insight, what do you think of the drivetrain???

Its fine but ive only been in an automatic model.

 

[miata13B]

Originally posted by Fenrir51
Its fine but ive only been in an automatic model.

did it have understeer or oversteer? plus did it have an open diff. or a LSD???

 

[Fenrir51]

Open diff, and being FWD soid say understeer. Wasnt my car so I didnt do any crazy stuff.

 

[MazKid]

Put the car with 1 front tire on ice/snow, and the other on pavement, hit the gas, notice how 1 wheel spins?

Power tends to take the easiest way out, so it'll spin whichever wheel is able to spin easier than the other.

My 323 is the same...it's fun for me though...

My dad put the Turbo II LSD diff in his '86 RX base, it helped a ton.

Our MPV is the worst when it comes to 1 wheel drive. It'll spin the easier wheel all the time in snow. Atleast my 323 tries, It'll start spinning both and then switch slightly to 1.

Ohh, and torque steer in FWD cars is due to 2 things, 1 is an open diff since power goes out of the easier wheel it'll pull that way. Also, since FWD cars normally have 2 different length axels, the torsion on the shorter axel is less than on the longer one, only slighty, but it can cause torque steer if you have enough power and grip to build up the torsion.

 

[SpeedKrazy620]

Haha. The only reason it leaves one mark is because of LSD. Your teacher needs some common sense.

 

[Jay]

no the reason it only spins one wheel is because it DOESNT have a LSD (limited slip differentual)

 

[SpeedKrazy620]

Sorry, I didn't state that specifically.