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Originally Posted by AV8NDOC
Ponder This:
so if we got an AWD car (Evo, Scooby, Lambo, Audi, etc.) and then tweaked the AWD system and the differentials to make it AWD or FWD or RWD, how easy do you think it would be to get in and know for sure what it was set at ??
(this is a serious question, and if you think it would be darn easy you are FOS)
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I would drive the car and find out
Given a dry (or wet, or snowy) stretch of pavement or more preferrably a closed track (
but not a requirement) I think many could find out really quickly whether or not your miracle machine was in AWD/RWD or especially FWD mode.
Dry "test": Which wheels leave the marks after a smoky standing start.
Wet/Snow "test": Take a turn at speed. Which is more apparent, understeer or oversteer. Do you have to countersteer?
Granted there are a whole lot more variables in play (
e.g. RWD, AWD, and FWD cars from the factory all have different suspension set-ups as well) but hopping into a Civic/Integra and then into a 240SX/RX-7 and then into a WRX/EVO will all be very different experiences.... we haven't even thrown in cars like 911s or MR-2s/NSXs/Elise/Exiges.... (RR and MR).