#torquesteer

[delaneywuzup700]

Ratchet: I'm sorry but the traditional procedure comes straight from the Cybertron Medical Law *Shows a seemingly inanimate portrait of his father* as established by my father, Torquesteer.

Hot Shot: Well that's a stupid rule.

Torquesteer: *From the "portrait"* You watch your mouth young bot! *Crosses his arms* 😠

Hot Shot: Who puts a picture frame on a window? 🤨

[askvectorprime]

What can you tell us about Medix's relatives Apax, Torquesteer, and Wrench?

Dear Medical Marvel,

In that particular reality, the term does not always translate so literally—just as Ratchet was not Medix’s literal uncle, so too are Ratchet’s own “family” members not directly related to him; they are teachers, mentors, and caretakers who helped shape the young Ratchet into the wise, resourceful ‘bot he became.

Apax was the wise leader of Ratchet’s village during the Age of Origins. An early scholar and an early convert to Azimuth’s Patterner movement, she placed great importance on the value of knowledge and developed a system of cuneiform pictographs to better retain information, and archeologists believe that this might have been one of the earliest examples of written Cybertronian language.

Torquesteer was a professor at Cybertron’s first university in Iacon—the first neuroscientist in Cybertronian history, he was an accomplished scholar, thinker, and philosopher. His most notable contribution to the sciences was the creation of the Torquesteer Sparktype Tree, an attempt to map the different electrochemical compositions of each spark to variations in physical form and personality.

Finally, Medix’s own cousin Wrench emerged from the Well of All Sparks at almost the same time as Medix himself—however, Wrench wound up in a different batch of new protoforms. They remained quite close, however, and that is why the young Rescue Bot regards him as a “second cousin”. Like Medix, Wrench is an accomplished engineer, but is more interested in fixing machines than other ‘bots, and has put his race car alternate mode to good use on the refurbished Hydrax Speedway.

[projectfiesta-blog]

Torque Steer

So... yeah. This had to come up eventually. The ugly elephant in the room for any high performance front wheel drive project is torque steer. So the million dollar (okay, maybe $26,000) question is: does the FiST torque steer? 

There have been some horrible front wheel drive sports cars; I don’t want to name names, but everyone is looking at you, Mazda Speed 3. There are lots of things that have made them horrible, but one of the biggest challenges with sending significant power through the front wheels is getting that power down evenly. Those who have failed to meet this challenge (ahem Mazda, ahem Vauxhall) have ended up with cars that pull violently from side to side under even modest acceleration. Under hard acceleration, things just get worse.

The Vauxhall VXR is another notorious failure

The FiST already sends a couple hundred ponies through the front wheels, and as I mentioned, I’m planning to bump that up a bit and extract some more torque. So... am I expecting epic torque steer? No.  

Ford has put an incredibly smart front differential in the Fiesta ST. Under hard acceleration you can occasionally feel the front wheels fighting independently for traction, but it pulls in a straight line. I’m more concerned about the same things you would be with a rear wheel drive car, namely getting the power down without blowing the tyres off.

[edmunds-com-blog]

Who says you can’t smoke tires in an FF setup? #torquesteer #ford #focus #st #tracktest #longtermtest #edmundsinc #askthecarpeople (Taken with Instagram)