RWD conversion on GTI-R

Was reading about this and it seams pretty easy to convert to rear wheel drive but the method I saw was a bit of a cheap bodge and I don't know how the rear diff etc would cope ive time with all that extra power going through it

Basically it involved removing the front drive shafts and plugging the holes and welding the diff in the transfer case and then you have all the power going to the rear wheels.

I'm kind of tempted to give it a go one day. I've got like 3 transfer boxes and a spare rear diff and drive shafts incase they do fook up. Doesn't seem like any major work is involved but with it being a bit of a bodge I just wonder how the car will handle and how long it's going to last.

Would be good fun to try it though, could always switch back. It's just the time and effort involved in swapping bits over

You got weld the centre diff which is in the gearbox.
Can't really see much to me gained unless you was trying use it for drifting :-/

A bit of drifting would be fun but don't want to have to weld the diff in the box because that's a lot more work than I was thinking it involved lol

Your R all up & running Bill ?

Hopefully should be within the next few weeks.
I've got somebody going to do the box and clutch and a very reasonable price and he knows his stuff because he swapped my engine last time

^ hope that goes trouble free & gets you running smoothly for some time.

So cant you just remove the front driveshafts altogether then and just leave the halfshafts in the gearbox end .... ????

You won't be able to do that because the centre diff needs load on both sides (front and rear) to work correctly? I think that's why something needs to be welded.

http://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/324400-how-to-make-your-gtir-rwd-for-free/

Intresting read ^^^^^^^^^

That's the thread I was thinking of from years ago, good find

I can normally dig deep from the depths of the darker side of the net

I remember when one of my drive shafts popped out going around a roundabout and lost all drive.

Must admit I think the Pulsar would be weird and crap rwd. Why not buy a rwd car if you have space on your drive nock yourself out with that.

Lol nice cornering there!

If you were to lock front diff to get drive just to back you would not get full drive & would kill centre viscous diff on day 1.
Only way is locking centre diff.
How you pull shafts is flexible, plugging neater & only way if remove front diff. shaft hub ends would need be split from shaft & kept in hub or your hub spindle & wheel may depart lol :-)
Overall pointless really as with weight distribution rear grip would be minimal & with short wheelbase the handling from rwd perspective would be awful control without quick & plentiful steering :-)

To be honest I wouldn't go to big lengths to convert it to rwd but thought it would be a laugh.

I just got mixed up thing the centre diff was in the transfer box and I was thinking I could mod a transfer box and just swap over as I please but obviously the 4wd system doesn't work that way and the centre diff is actually in the gearbox! I took a box appart once... It didn't go back together

As for it being shit rwd, I think it would be good rwd, there would be less understeer for one and I think it could be set up to handle really well.
The downside is the car was never set up for rwd so the engine is facing the wrong way for a start lol. I think would be better as a 4wd car but I think if you made s rwd Gtir ptoperly it would handle better than 4wd on track

Doubt it i just bought a sunny with a pulsar lump 300 bhp no diff the thing just wants to kill you ( front wheel drive) as mentioned the short wheel base dont really suit the rwd thing

I suppose nobody can really say because we haven't actually tested the cars but my thoughts on rear wheel drive is that it would be a nightmare to handle, as you say the short wheel base will make it nasty in the bends but I honestly think if you had the skill to tame it then it would be faster on a track with rwd. It would be faster in a straight line because of less power being lost through the transmission.
I think it would handle better still if it had a rwd sr20 engine and transmission fitted somehow, but when I say better I mean purely in terms of lap times on a track and not drive-ability on a normal road.
I agree though it would be a nightmare and that's why I would love to drive one set up that way
It would be good though if there was a simple way to swap from 2 and 4 wheel drive with minimal effort

Audi conversion once done simple swap via haldex controller

You ever drove a 200sx bill will give you some idea

I haven't to be honest mate, I'd like to have a go in one.

As for the gtir's transmission, could and aftermarket centre diff change the 50/50 split? Would be interesting to try 60/40 or 70/30 split for example.

If your serious put some (dont have to be warn tred) but cheap tyres on damp conditions and stiff rear susupension and possibly warn diff drive in anger 320 bhp  when i first got my white car it was like rear wheel drive and its fun but to much to handel many times it would spin out at low speed but past the point of controlling it ( to snatchy)

johnny gtir wrote:Audi conversion once done simple swap via haldex controller

You ever drove a 200sx bill will give you some idea

Haldex won't give you rwd, it would give you fwd or variable split awd via the hydraulic variable rear diff .