Thats odd... my title posted by not the contents....
I was practicing different corners and a slalom in a super wet (standing deep water) parking lot with another autocrosser in a scooby last night. I set up two corners that I knew both our cars would push on to practice rotating the car... I just couldn't get the car to come around for me.
Then we set up a slalom with the middle cone in a 3 inch deep pond from the rainwater. The scooby went through it first and had alot of trouble. When I first went through it things were pretty rough, but the more I went through it the harder the steering got and the more grip I was getting. I ended up being able to pass through the slalom about 15mph faster than the scooby, but felt like I had been lifting weights for three days straight when I was done. It took alot of muscle to turn that wheel by the end.
All I can figure is the LSD got warmer from all the super tight work and started tranfering more torque to where it was needed... or maybe it got too hot and locked under throttle because of the standing water? I don't know, but the experience was an eye opener and the MSP was screaming through the deep water as fast as I could do it on dry.
Has anyone had experiences that might show the LSD being grippier and quicker when it gets hot?