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Originally Posted by mk1matt
what I mean by twitch is that many mk1 owners report the rear end of there cars sort of "twitching" or losing traction thus causing a spin out.
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Do you mean twitching from braking? Or from bumps? I've noticed that going over bumps in a corner makes the car skip to the side a bit, but never lost traction from it, and i've never had the rear end lock up from braking
in my mr2, and i drove it though the winter. It's my understanding that with a stock setup that essentially doesn't happen when hard braking in a straight line, or is the twitch referring to braking causing a spin in a corner?
I did once have the rear end lock up while straight line braking in my brother's FJ40 (landcruiser) on snowy/icy roads. Something was f'ed up with that car, and when i went to brake hard to stop for a light that changed to red the rear locked up and it started to spin. Unfortunately on an FJ40, the wheelbase is short, the steering wheel is MASSIVE, there's no power steering, and the rack turns VERY slowly. So you can't turn the steering wheel fast because it's huge, and even if you could turn it fast the rack was slow so you need to turn it more to get the proper correction, and you're spinning really fast because it's so short. Ya, i spun right out...
But i did stop on the stopping line!
But i was pointing the wrong way
