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Old 07-01-2009, 01:44 AM   #3 (permalink)
jwlee7
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this question has to do with traction, like eunos said. The friction circle (or whatever its called now) comes into play. You only have X available traction.

steering will take away from that. acceleration and braking will too.
If you are threshold braking, you are using 100% of your available traction. That means if you try to accelerate or steer, you would get no response, because there is no more traction left. If you brake softer, you 'free up' traction for steering and acceleration.

If you start flooring the gas pedal, you can easily run out of available traction and slip.

That is the case with me and my supercharger. With the newly gained power, I cannot stomp the pedal sometimes on exit, as doing so will cause the wheels to spin. I'm guessing your 'coughing' is referring to this spinning. You deal with it by feathering the throttle/steering.
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