pulling 2 shafts on awd for racing

[Andrew Dahms]

I race the 1/8 mile here and I want to drop 2 shafts for racing. I know i could easily drop the driveshaft and the transfer case but i would rather keep the 2 back tires. Does anyone know how to do this or have any proof of better traction with the front tires.

 

[seefour]

Why would you want to lose the major advantage an AWD has in the 1/8th mile?

 

[dedlewamp]

I race the 1/8 mile here and I want to drop 2 shafts for racing. I know i could easily drop the driveshaft and the transfer case but i would rather keep the 2 back tires. Does anyone know how to do this or have any proof of better traction with the front tires.

Oh, by the way, you can't just drop the driveshaft and transfer case and have front wheel drive with no issues. You'll burn up your VC.

 

[Savage Talon]

The drive train of your car is not designed to handle it. It is designed to split the load. So you will just end up breaking something and leaking fluid all over the track looking like a dumbass and pissing everybody off.

 

[pitbull419]

Let me just say wow!
Very bad idea.
Drop your interior,ac and ps.Things you dont need

 

[99gst_racer]

I race the 1/8 mile here and I want to drop 2 shafts for racing. I know i could easily drop the driveshaft and the transfer case but i would rather keep the 2 back tires. Does anyone know how to do this or have any proof of better traction with the front tires.

You would be much safer and better off with AWD. I'm not going to go into great detail as to why, but with the way our car's are designed, you will get better performance out of the AWD platform as apposed to pulling the front CV's.

And as previously stated, the transfer case, driveshaft, and rear-end are not designed to handle 100% of the engine's output. Those components probably wouldn't last very long in a situation where the vehicle was being raced. Especially if you're making more power than the car did in stock form.

You would also need a spool or a welded center diff. and a pair of dummy axles to plug the inputs on the tranny.

 

[Talesin]

I'm just curious where he seems to think that on a bitty eighth, that the holeshot is less important than the drivetrain loss we have to put up with. Maybe on a quarter it would be worth it.
Might just be my annoyance with the local ricers making me jump at any possible suggestion of it, but sounds more like he wants to get it RWD to join the drift kids.

 

[Andrew Dahms]

No I only want to do it for the 1/8th mile. As for the driveshaft, transfer case, that was suggested to me by a mechanic at the shop i work at. As for the reason to drop the shafts, any street ricer can beat me off the line and I figured that putting power to 4 tires off the line was slowing down my launch. (high 2 second 60ft) note the work ive done to the car.

 

[DSMcamaro]

I figured that putting power to 4 tires off the line was slowing down my launch

WTF WTF

No, if you only have 2 or 1 wheel drive power you just have no traction! trust me, FWD sux from a dig. I think you just need to practice launching your car.

 

[black91awdturbo]

um no kidding think about it how do you think that spliting power between four wheels which equals no spin. Will hook up harder than sending all power to the fronts which will just sit and spin? Look at the time slips for proof, further more you should have no problems pulling 1.8 60's just work on it.

 

[Talesin]

Meaning either you need to learn how to launch the car (hold at ~4500rpm and slip it a little, but mostly drop it from there) or need to get a better clutch if slippage is killing you. AWD dominates the eighth mile with the monster holeshots we can dish out. Yes, you do lose more torque in the high end, but on a 1/8 you aren't getting there, and out gearing is much closer, compared to a FWD.

Going from AWD to 2WD is taking a few steps back when you're dealing with short-shot drag.

 

[Andrew Dahms]

Im just worried about breaking a shaft if i launch too high. I was launching at 3k by 2 footing the car (its auto) How high can I go with stock shafts with the set-up ive got (by dropping from neutral to 1st cause brakes wont hold more than 3k)

 

[1qkfwd]

Neutral drops are very bad. You might want to invest in a good stall convertor. This place has them http://www.ipttrans.com/mitsubishiauto.shtml#main. They claim anywhere from .5 to 1.5 Et drop over the stock convertor. Why have an AWD car if you are going to go extended lengths to make it slower and convert it to FWD