Many comments were made early on about possible torque steer with a front wheel drive Turbo powered veh.
So any S/S owners or test drivers experienced any worth noteing?

 

The auto I drove only had torque steer when I started to take off w/ wheel turned. I haven't driven a manual yet, but w/ equal length half-shafts I don't see it being an issue.

 

I would say no, however I think a bit of clarification is in order. With any high horsepower front drive car, when you are on the throttle hard (especially in lower gears) the front tires can obviously be pretty busy hunting for traction and you need to pay attention to steering inputs. There is no pull to one side like you get with unequal torsional stiffness of the driveaxles like you get with some other vehicles.

 

Have not really seen much in 1st gear but the boost is less, about 10 pounds,vs 15 in 2nd and 3rd. I can feel a little in 2nd under high boost BUT
roads are not the best now and I am probably seeing loss of traction issues
not torque steer.

turbofreak

 

It`s been so long since I`ve driven a manual, I`d probably tear the car up with-in a month, fooling around with boost being different in certain gears and such, glad I got the auto.

 

Mine has it pretty bad and it isn't even an SS.

 

well, the SS has equal length halfshafts to correct this issue.

 

Well, just drove an auto SS, and had very little to no torque steer, very impressed. Now like and other front driver I've owned (04 6 spd accord coupe, 06 Impala SS) once the pavement gets rough, the car really starts to want to follow the imperfections. But the worst car I've owned with torque steer was the 04 Honda. Car doesn't feel like it's going as fast as it is. Look down at speedo and actually going 10-15 miles faster than it feels. Fairly quick car, alot of potential with a tune. Seemed to have boost hickup at 4500 rpm, just lost boost, at the tach stopped moving. Maybe something to do with the torque converter unlocking, who knows????? I like it alot. Dealership will soon have a black one perfectly optioned.