Every system provides it owns benefits and drawbacks, and although the more difficult systems are generally excellent they have an attached cost that far exceeds the easier systems.
The downside to the system is it is very complicated and incredibly expensive, and typically only used for racing/track applications because of its high speed cornering potential.
Torque Vectoring Differential 940x310The Differential Gear yellow-colored arrow highlights the torque transfer occuring through the part, produced by the artifical resistance being exerted by the TVD on the outside wheel. This allows for greater acceleration out from the corner as the car’s turning abilitty is certainly increased.
A Torque Vectoring Differential is capable of channelling 100% of the obtainable torque through an individual wheel when needed in the many extreme of circumstances.
With the TVD exerting more resistance onto the exterior wheels clutch, it tricks the system into diverting more torque through it – increasing the total amount power which can be applied and reducing the understeer experienced under acceleration out of a corner.
By continuing to use this level of resistance through the corner, as the vehicle passes the apex and starts to accelerate out it’ll continue to override a standard multiway-LSD – which would again interpret the faster moving outside wheel as slipping and divert torque during acceleration to the inside wheel, which it perceives as having more hold.
However, instead of releasing the resistance upon both wheels a TVD proceeds to activate the clutch on the outside wheel just – increasing the resistance experienced simply by that wheel and making the machine channel more torque through it. This imbalance of capacity to the outside encourages the automobile to turn in to the corner sharper and reducing understeer.
