2 Weekends, 2 rain events!!

[Zero Bar]

The past 2 weekends Ohio Valley Region has had their test & tune and first points event of the year, both of which it was raining. With the budget tight this year I am running the Laser in EP again but on street tires, so there won't be a chance of another class championship but the seat time won't hurt.

Last weekend it was 38 degrees and raining almost all day and wasn't a whole lot of fun. Though I have KDW tires my car is so stiff it's a drifting machine if I'm not very careful. Also it was a clockwise run course meaning mostly right turns and with my fwd you get the terribly uneven length CV axles that make accelerating out of a tight right an exercise in futility in those conditions. Anyone else have this issue??

Again yesterday we had our first points event and as my heat began it started to rain. Though it was about 60 degrees and the rain was lighter and made the track only damp. Luckily the track was counter-clockwise and I didn't have too much with turning. I managed 2nd place of 3 cars losing to a well driven Neon by 4/10's.

Though I enjoy rain racing I want some dry track to run on so I don't have to fight the car so much! I'm debating wether an LSD will cure the problem enough or if I should try to swap in an AWD trans if it's possible, anyone know if it is??

[1999silverGSX]

I say try an LSD out. Converting a 1g fwd dsm to awd is very costly alot of custom work has to be done.. really not worth it. Hince the reason why you dont see 1g's fwd converted to awd.

[Zero Bar]

Originally Posted by 1999silverGSX

I say try an LSD out. Converting a 1g fwd dsm to awd is very costly alot of custom work has to be done.. really not worth it. Hince the reason why you dont see 1g's fwd converted to awd.

I'm not looking to convert it to awd, simply use an awd trans as fwd if it has more equal length cv axles which I think it does. Though my car doesn't have the power for it I know torque steer is an issue for the turbo cars and I smoked my tires when making tight right hand corners in my old turbo car. If an awd trans has near equal length shafts then that would be ideal to use especially with an lsd in it.

[97spyder maayng]

My buddy's running a fwd with an awd transmission. It fits fine, the reason to do this would be because the awd transmission can with-hold more power.