crazyenglishman

is there any way of makeing a scoob rear wheel drive only as u would or should make up a lot of lost power though the drive system???
if that was a silly q just tell me 2 shut up

SiPie

Beadle just has to be around somewhere

i8gtmf

Why would you want to ?

greasemonkey

Yes, it's theoretically possible, but why would you want to? The whole point of the Impreza's drivetrain is that it's AWD, and the whole car is designed around it.

Why bother converting one to 2WD when you could simply buy a fast RWD car that's optimised for this transmission configuration?

What makes you think that "a lot" of power is lost through the extra diffs and driveshafts? Rolling road figures indicate quite high power losses through the drivetrain, but these aren't anywhere near accurate.

SiPie

So you'd make up for a large transmission loss....


...but errr... go buy a RWD car with a big engine that was developed for RWD

crazyenglishman

just a idea
wouldnt u be getting more bhp at the wheels?????????????


also would be a lot of fun just being rear wheel drive

dpb

...........thats blaady spooky -i was deliberatin to ask exact same question this last 15 mins . If it saved fuel over awd and provided power slidin fun id be right up there. Id like to think i bought sti for handlin

crazyenglishman

didnt just buy my scoob just 4 handling
even tho it does it very well.
got it 4 loads of other resons 2.


ive put mine on the rollers and if im reading it right i have lost 87bhp from the fly wheel that sounds a hell of a loss

i did have a calilbra turbo 4x4 which was only front wheel drive and it seemed 2 go better?

greasemonkey

That's grossly inaccurate; there's nowhere near that much loss through the transmission. This is one of the problems with 4WD rolling roads, none of them gives a truly accurate indication of transmission loss.

You had a Calibra Turbo 4x4 which was only FWD? There seems to be a contradiction implied in that statement.

If you wanted a two wheel drive car, you would have been far better off buying a two wheel drive car. Buying a car that trades specifically on its four wheel drive configuration and then asking about converting it to RWD seems a bit ärsë about tit.

crazyenglishman

it was only a thought
the calibra was a 4x4 but had some sort of problem with the transfer box
which ment it was ony now running fwd

i didnt mean i would make my scoob rwd it was just a thought

richie,7,RA,spec C

just bored is it
i don't know

julian N/W wrx my93

buy a rover sd1 3.5l!!!!!!!!!!!!!

dpb

...had 1 ......a car that guzzled gas quicker than scooby...........classic p6 manuel

BLACK V5

I had 1 of those. On a good day i could get a whopping 15mpg.