Thread: FWD/FF Buggy
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Old 09-09-2013
fastfilli fastfilli is offline
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Hi Origineelreclamebord

I have been watching this thread with interest for some time to see if there is any potential for a FWD car.

I race in the UK on super hi grip Astroturf and the current craze is to take the front drive shafts out of a 4WD car and run it as a 2WD car. This seems to work great as the weight of the car is more forward and stops wheeling under hard acceleration.

Last week a Schumacher K1 driver snapped the rear belt on his car, so to get him buy for the night he put his car into front wheel drive.

Shock horror he set the fastest time of the day and pole position in the A main.

There were some top UK drivers at this meeting so the competition was hi and this guy was 0.6 faster per lap.

In the final he overheated the slipper as the car had so much drive :-/

One comment that stuck with me was he found no benefit from running wider front tyres? Settling for mid width front tyres!

Another guy tried the same with his Durango but it did not work at all. The shaft drive car did not produce any front drive ?

Hope this may be of some use to you. Best of luck with your car ;-)

John
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