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Originally Posted by Tweaky
Many thanks guy's for your comments.
As for shaft drive, i just liked the idea of simple drivetrain and enclosed gearbox. Maybe it would of been better with the belt drive instead.
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I thought about it when I saw the DB1... I thought they might have chosen for a shaft drive car because a motor mounted longitudinally will tend to twist/transfer from side to side instead of increasing the weight transfer towards the rear on acceleration and the front on braking (like a belt drive mounted motor or 'regular' 2WD gearbox).
Reducing the weight transfer to the front and back I thought would make the car's behaviour towards understeer and grip-roll more consistent and less extreme - as the weight transfer to gain traction on the rear for acceleration is not needed on high bite tracks, but things like grip-roll and understeer due to heavy weight transfer may be more pronounced, a shaft drive chassis might work better.
So my theory would be that a shaft drive 2WD layout like this 202X would work better on (even) higher bite than the belt drive 2WD layout of your SX3/SV. However, as I am a novice on this sort of stuff, I'd have someone check what I just wrote down
