I was talking with some friends about this last night. I thought that torque-steer is caused when the tires lose traction. They said that the tires do not have to break lose to expereince torque-steer.

Your thoughts??

 

Torque steer is the tendency for the car to want to pull to one side when you accelerate hard. It's not related to traction as far as I know. I believe the main cause of it is because of unequal length half shafts so the torque gets applied unevenly. Sompin like that.

 

i know with hondas that the right front tire is the one that does all (most) the work (driving). If you coast in first gear around 5k rpm and then u floor it.... you'll feel a dramatic pull to the right side. LSD/ATTS prevents this

 

From what I've read about it, ATTS doesn't help in a straight line. It's main function is to direct power to the outside wheel under hard cornering to help reduce understeer.

 

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If the right side gets power, the car would feel as if it's pulling to the left, wouldn't it?

 

"Root causes for Torque Steer are:
• Nonsymmetric driveshaft angles, e.g. due to
o Nonsymmetric design of the vehicle, e.g. different driveshaft length
o Transient movement of the engine
o Tolerances in engine mounts
• Different driveshaft torques left to right
• Suspension geometry tolerances
• Unequal traction forces due to road surface (µ-Split) in combination with Kingpin Offset