spindoc said:
Craigy, Can you elaborate on the problems you've heard about?
When Lotus tried LSD on the Elise it made the handling rather, let's just call it, 'interesting'...
But.. And this is where the confusion comes from...
Lotus (and most european Elise owners) use the car on tracks for what you guys in the USA call 'road racing'. Aka, high-speed track work, 100mph flat-out corners and such... And this is the situation where an LSD was causing handling issues when Lotus tried them on the original Elise.
A lot of guys here who are looking for an LSD are talking about 'autocross' in the USA, which (as I understand it) is a low-speed type event where a course is set out using cones on a parking lot and has many tight turns. In europe these are usually called 'slalom' events, but very few of those around.
It's a different type of use, but I can imagine Lotus being very careful before they offer LSD as they can't have people experience unpredictable handling when they do take an LSD-equipped car to a road-race style event..
Bye, Arno.