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sisu
get you some /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
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sisu
get you some /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
Can't wait to tear up some private dirt roads around here. That's what our cars are designed for: dirt and snow. Go balls to the walls like Juha Kankkunen /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/devil.gif
DR1665
Well-known member
Quoting toybreaker:
sisu
get you some /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
Oy, perkele!
If that's your driveway, I'll be there tomorrow, friend.
Sisu, indeed.
sisu
get you some /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
Oy, perkele!
If that's your driveway, I'll be there tomorrow, friend.
Sisu, indeed.
raptorWagon
Well-known member
Quoting 123abc:
My friend converted his GST Spyder from awd to rwd with the VC eliminator. He never had so many damn problems with driveline pieces breaking. Besides, our cars don't have close the steering angle needed for rwd.
A VCE is meant to put it in FWD not RWD, mostly used for putting a awd car on a 2wd dyno.
My friend converted his GST Spyder from awd to rwd with the VC eliminator. He never had so many damn problems with driveline pieces breaking. Besides, our cars don't have close the steering angle needed for rwd.
A VCE is meant to put it in FWD not RWD, mostly used for putting a awd car on a 2wd dyno.
123abc
Well-known member
Yes, I know.
turbowop
Well-known member
Since when is a GST Spyder AWD? Did he convert it from FWD to AWD and then to RWD? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif
CutlassJim
Well-known member
Quoting raptorreed:
Quoting 123abc:
My friend converted his GST Spyder from awd to rwd with the VC eliminator. He never had so many damn problems with driveline pieces breaking. Besides, our cars don't have close the steering angle needed for rwd.
A VCE is meant to put it in FWD not RWD, mostly used for putting a awd car on a 2wd dyno.
It goes both ways. Like your mom. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Quoting 123abc:
My friend converted his GST Spyder from awd to rwd with the VC eliminator. He never had so many damn problems with driveline pieces breaking. Besides, our cars don't have close the steering angle needed for rwd.
A VCE is meant to put it in FWD not RWD, mostly used for putting a awd car on a 2wd dyno.
It goes both ways. Like your mom. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Hertz
Staff member
That's 3 ways, like YOUR mom. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/devil.gif
123abc
Well-known member
He went from fwd to awd with a vce. Then he broke the front diff in the transmission making it rwd. Then the rear diff cover mounts let go. So, then he beefed up the rear end but took the front axles out. He broke yet another transmission before finally just enjoying the car as awd.
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turbowop
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You can't go from FWD to AWD with a VCE. GST Spyders came as FWD from the factory. None of them were AWD unless a conversion was done. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/dunno.gif
123abc
Well-known member
He converted it, its not that hard of a swap....
turbowop
Well-known member
From what I've seen, it look pretty labor intensive considering the floor pans are completely different. But kudos to him for creating an AWD Spyder. That's pretty sweet.
123abc
Well-known member
You're thinking of a 1g, 2g's are the same unibody, just different subframes attached.
IncorpoRatedX
Well-known member
Quoting turbowop:
From what I've seen, it look pretty labor intensive considering the floor pans are completely different. But kudos to him for creating an AWD Spyder. That's pretty sweet.
2g is way easy.
From what I've seen, it look pretty labor intensive considering the floor pans are completely different. But kudos to him for creating an AWD Spyder. That's pretty sweet.
2g is way easy.
3rdstrikedsm
Well-known member
yea I have done this conversion and it's not that bad as long as you have a doner car.
turbowop
Well-known member
Quoting 123abc:
You're thinking of a 1g, 2g's are the same unibody, just different subframes attached.
I see. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
You're thinking of a 1g, 2g's are the same unibody, just different subframes attached.
I see. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Quoting DR1665:
Way to be dicks, fellas.
The thing to remember is, drift cars are a spectators carnie ride. They are not race cars, but caricatures. They are designed for one purpose - to burn through tires and sell product. If RWD is so ideal for drifting, why do they all have to butcher their suspension and steering geometries to do it? I say BOO. Dirt is for racing, tarmac is for getting there. The "style points" awarded in dorifto events, with their flat brims, puffy shoes, black socks, and stadiums will never hold a candle to stringing dozens of balls-to-the-wall, four-wheel drifts together on gravel out in the wild, with crests and jumps and exposures.
You haven't lived until you've used your right foot to keep an AWD car sideways for like a solid minute on dirt. (TIP: Dry lake beds are ideal, just watch out for nails.)
YMMV
Word. "Carnie ride" race cars usually have double or triple adjustable dampers, heims everywhere and relocated suspension pickup points. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/hsugh.gif Real talk though DSMs probably have the least amount of steering angle out of any car I've owned. I don't know if CV issues would arise but I feel like my car could use rack spacers at a minimum.
Way to be dicks, fellas.
The thing to remember is, drift cars are a spectators carnie ride. They are not race cars, but caricatures. They are designed for one purpose - to burn through tires and sell product. If RWD is so ideal for drifting, why do they all have to butcher their suspension and steering geometries to do it? I say BOO. Dirt is for racing, tarmac is for getting there. The "style points" awarded in dorifto events, with their flat brims, puffy shoes, black socks, and stadiums will never hold a candle to stringing dozens of balls-to-the-wall, four-wheel drifts together on gravel out in the wild, with crests and jumps and exposures.
You haven't lived until you've used your right foot to keep an AWD car sideways for like a solid minute on dirt. (TIP: Dry lake beds are ideal, just watch out for nails.)
YMMV
Word. "Carnie ride" race cars usually have double or triple adjustable dampers, heims everywhere and relocated suspension pickup points. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/hsugh.gif Real talk though DSMs probably have the least amount of steering angle out of any car I've owned. I don't know if CV issues would arise but I feel like my car could use rack spacers at a minimum.
