Just out of curiosity...

I've got a ver6 STi and was wondering, if I removed my front drive shafts and turned the car in to a RWD, would that cause any issues/problems??

 

hope so cos im about to

 

You mean, hope not... lol

Just thinking do the front drive shafts play any part towards calculated resistance on the gearbox? If removed and resistance reduced, does this put increased stress on the rest of the gearage??

Also would be power loss as power is distributed thru the $WD system and whatever power was asigned to the front drive would then be redundant??

 

You will also need the centre diff welded.

 

As above, the centre diff needs welding. If you just removed the front shafts you wouldn't go very far

As for the drivetrain it would cause a bit more stress on the gearbox/rear diff as, technically, its suddenly doing twice as much work!

 

I was only wondering, but with this info I'll scrap that idea as ever being played out.

I'm on my 2nd gearbox and next time hopefully I'll get hold of a v5 ltd dccd box

 

you'll break that too, all 5 speeds are similar sort of strength. only way is it upgrade, 6 speeder or uprated ger kit ppg/scoobyclinic etc etc

 

time to get the welding set out whoop

 

Ive always been curious about converting my p1 to rwd but then how good would 450hp handle in a rwd car?

 

wonderfull my mr2 only got silly at like 600 so i took it off the road and went silly

 

Yeah you're not wrong... I had my eye on a very tasty PPG al125 recently sold and funnily enuf its up for sale again... already got my beady eye on it!

 

There is a full conversion that our other company does , they charge 1k for the conversion will find out some details

 

What kind of conversion? 4wd to rwd?

 

yeah thats it , i spoke to them today , they said will send me some infor over ..

 

So the suspension is set-up to cope with all the power going to the rear wheels ?

Nope, didn't think so !

dunx

 

remove the front driveshafts hmmmmmmmm would i b right in saying the cv joint and hub nut hold the wheelbearing togeather lololol

 

Weld up the centre diff, and use axle stubs(complete axle with the inner CV and axle removed) to keep the bearing assembly together.

Fun for a bit, but changing the geometry setup is a very sensible thing to do.
On a track oriented AWD wheelgeometry RWD only on a Impreza gives massive amounts off sudden oversteer.
A BMW 328 is very predictable, a RWB Impreza is NOT, and it will catch you out if you dont do some tweaks to the camber etc.

 

haha a few years ago i had a 3-series in the wet all it did was circuls lol never drove a car like it sumthing was rong lol fun tho hahaha

 

Other than Drifting or competing in RWD class, why would you do this to an Impreza?

Buy a6 speed DCCD gearbox setup

Rob

 

dont meany imprezas broadside mate nice to be diffrent me thinks