Originally Posted by
turbotrev
Imo I've seen many a 2wd car in all sorts of power variants break standard or slightly modded T5 boxes.
They are shite.
And rear beams for handling seem to work awesome but I don't think they necessarily majorly improve grip.
There are other small mods you can do and with a decent tyre in a 2wd you can get ample power down
Cheers Paul
I may have different experience but as my Pug was running a lot of camber on the rear on the standard beam, this could be an anomoly due to how it was fitted to the Pug 205 shell? (but don't think it could affect it much) I think it was due to the fact that my car ran quite low to the ground which made it sit in more of a squat position, It used to spin the rears in second on a dry road, now you would have to heavily provoke it to spin in any gear. I think others have reported improved traction.
I was able to dial in bob on geo that was recommended to me so I think the traction benefit was due to the fact that the tyre contact patch is now optimised....
I understand that the handling improves by a fair margin too with the beam.