What percentage of power is going where on a 2001 a4 quattro?

 

i am 99% sure that it is 60% rear and 40% front

 

i might be wrong but i think its the other way around... 60 front 40 rear

 

no it's 50/50 on the B5

 

I think there is a lot of confusion on this topic, or maybe it is just me.

The car isn't just some 'four wheeler' with all the axles connected to the same thing. I feel like that is an insult to Quattro itself, which is what should make Audi so special to you.

First of all, I believe you should replace the word 'power' with 'torque' for the question to make sense.

Second, read this thread - it has a lot of information even though it seems like it doesn't apply to this discussion:
http://www.audizine.com/forum/showth...-with-pictures.

Read these:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torsen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quattro...rive_system%29
Quattro generation 4

From what I understand, it's a 50/50 split, yes; however you can think of it is a 50/50 split of torque bias constantly changing applied torque to the front/rear wheels up to 75%. When decelerating/turning you get more torque in front, and when accelerating you get more torque in back; also from what I understand is that this change is continuous.

In later models, it is a 40/60 bias which gives up to 70% to the front or 85% to the back. 'Bias' in the case of Quattro/Torsen means that the maximum torque applied to the front/rear wheels is limited by the said ratio.

Read what Quattro and Torsen actually are and find the right answer. I would like to know the real answer to this as well and I don't think anyone has posted the correct result yet.

Maybe onepoint8tee or ImTheDevil can chime in and let us know what they think.

EDIT:
I'm not trying to say that I know exactly how this system works, I am just in disbelief of the answers I have seen on this topic on most Audi forums. This is the only Audi forum I have an account on, so you know the deal

 

Break an axle and the torsen(center diff) will send 100% of the power to that broken axle and the car wont move at all. The torsen(AKA TORqueSENsing) transfers the power to the wheel with the least amount of resistance. This is why our cars uses the ABS to reduce the speed of a wheel that is spinning faster then the others.

 

http://www.audizine.com/forum/showth...ng-a-5k-launch!

 

Ugh... when I saw the title I was going to link that too!

 

Broken Axle = Wheel hop or his ABS locked that wheel.

 

lol I didn't know what wheel hop was, but I think I do now

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOVtn...eature=related

slo-mo always cracks me up for some reason.