Dostler

Ok Fellas, Now that my build is but a month away my thoughts have turned to actually driving the darn thing. Having read everything I can find, much is made of the RWS but nobody ever mentions the torque vectoring. If I push my Audi S4 I can feel it subtlety. It's much needed in that car, if a bit eerie.

My question is can you feel it and when? I would think it would be most obvious on sweepers, but I'm just guessing.

Thanks.

Carrera GT

Nope.
With PDCC on a Carrera S and Sport PASM, the rear end feels quite horrible. It walks and shimmies around like a drunk sailor on deck during a storm. In the GT3, there's just no superlative to do it justice. It's the unshakeable of unshakeables. It is unflappable and on rails. Laser-guided, apex-seeking, shaving the hundredths of your lap times, widening your smile till you're laughing out loud in your helmet, defying the laws of physics, scoffing at the scuffing of the tire shoulders. It has the self-medicated toe-in that makes the next apex a shoe-in, and you just can't get enough of it.

With a bow of respect to George Carlin, who could have really made that a funny paragraph ... miss that old bastard.

reidry

+1

Dostler

Thanks for the thoughts. You might not have made me laugh but I'm even more fired up to get my hands on it and start answering these things for myself!

MaxLTV

Yes, GT3 keeps torquing my vector towards a nearby track every other weekend

Dr.Bill

You feel it most when you need new brake pads because it makes the rear ones wear out as fast as the front ones! Thereby confirming its effect on the wallet!

MaxLTV

My front ones are almost done and rears have 2/3 left. Anyone has any different experience? I think torque vectoring brake application is very gentle compared to threshold braking. There is only so much differential braking you can apply without making the car spin. So it should not be huge impact on pad wear. I think traction control would eat rear pads much more than that.

997TTMeteor

Same here. Fronts are wearing much faster than the rears. I upgraded to RS29’s after 5 track days but the rears had more than ½ life left – fronts were almost toast. I always run with ESC off (and often ESC+TC off). PTV very subtle.