Originally Posted by
Barry_GTi
Years ago when I asked about it I was told due to the short wheel base the handling becomes very understeery.... I can't understand that though as 4wd surely makes it worse?
Maybe people that have done it can comment though.
Its quite the opposite - mines converted to RWD, with full 2wd running gear, including a 7.5" Quaife diff. Its all poly bushed except the rear arms, and i'm using solid beam mounts with AVO coilovers and the standard supplied springs.
The car handles superbly well, you point it in a corner and it goes, if anything, its the rear end that starts to break away first.
Mines abit skitish at times on the rear end tho on boost, but I think thats because the T38 comes in aggressively, in the wet the car will try to break traction in thrid gear, and you can spin the wheels up in second very easily.
Its not a drift car by anymeans - I have tried to build that part out of it, tho when you want you can still get nicely sideways
In all honesty - the car handles as well as it did, if not slightly better, its just a case of learning how to drive RWD if you haven't done so before