turboglenn
15+ Year Contributor
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- Nov 5, 2007
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RIpley,
West_Virginia
Did everyone else enjoy the moment you changed your car to "9* Eclipse GST (AWD swap)" in your user profile. I felt victorious music playing.
I know i did, my car's future changed that day from taking a swin in the river or being sold hre locally, back to being something i wanted to keep. No matter how you cut it, a 430+hp FWD on the streets sucks when you need to get out in traffic fast and your first and 2nd gears are completely useless even with a good LSD behind them. they are more fun to drive though for those who enjoy the white knuckle experience in 3rd gear To me the one downfall of AWD is even a LOT of HP becomes a fairly easy to drive and some what boring affair untill you learn to play in 1st and 2nd and start using the AWD as a cornering aid and playing with a little wet weather drifting in old parking lots (plenty od these in the cities industrial areas for me anyway where everyone stunts bikes and such and the police often watch without bothering us as long as we aren't damaging proprty or drinking - as well as assuming the owner didn't call them then we get the boot)
Vss? Also when I put it into 4th and 5th gear it sounds like the right cv axle is making a chatting noise like its stalling out,would that be do to the car being on stands and not having the speed/momentum while in higher gears? Also I ment to say its the rpm that is acting funkey and giving me false readings
is it the actual RPM of the engine or is the the RPM reading on the tach that is wrong or acting funny?