Body Roll?

Long story short, It won't work.

Jeremy (turbotrdcelica) from the old boards, attempted this...it worked very briefly, then fell apart, the chassis couldn't handle the torque that was being generated at the rear tires and pretty much all fell apart...and he was a licensed certified mechanic....

 

your front lip is scraping do to blowing shocks more in likely...I can get into the corners pretty deep with mine and no scraps....-and your conversion is gonna cost alot more then just buying a awd car....plus a compromise in safety too..Best of luck thou if you do, do it. 8)

do you wanna turn it into a drifter?

 

Well, to be more specific, you're springs are causing you to hit your front lip on turns...

The shocks just ease the return bounce...


But yeah...might as well get an alltrac and disconnect the front drive axles....it'd be much safer and more stable.

 

If you have all this money you can throw in, why don't you get an MR2? It's a waste of drivetrain if you're just getting an AWD car to only use the rear for the power. Unless you have patience AND some money, that FD3S is going to be hard to maintain EVEN as a non-turbo model. The most reliable Rx-7 from people's experiences have been the FC3S model (2nd gen). If you really want a drift and touge monster, might as well get an AE86 from someone that doesn't know about the "drift" craze enough to inflate the price. easy to mod, and EVERY suspension mod is noticed.

Back on topic, check your shocks because they might be blown. GR-2's can be bought for dirt cheap nowadays. Also, throw on some sway bar bracket bushings...you won't regret it.

 

what touge??? arent you in cali.... they have no touge there....(could be wrong but dont thinks me is).....

also to note very hard to find a AE86 due to drift craze and initial d... if you can find one its usually a coupe and those handle alot differently then the hatch

 

hatch > coupe...always....

 

Yes I am from cali and there are mountains to touge, or pass, through. Actually the difference isn't too drastic. Hatches were a little rear heavy, hence their reason to be so popular with drifting so early on. There IS a reason coupes were also offered in the GTS trim. Not to bash on the hatch, but if the coupe and hatch were to have the same suspension setup/same driver/ etc, the coupe would be slightly nimbler through the turns because of the lessened rear weight bias. But then again the difference is so minute that you might not even be able to tell the difference.

 

MR2 + drift = bad idea.

 

has your friend wrecked his yet?

 

I dun like RWD. I wouldn't mind having a drift slut if we had a track here, but we don't, so it's useless to me. AWD would be fun though.

still no wreck of the MR2 yet . Although we're going to a drag track on the weekend and apparently the track is a bit sketchy at the end so who knows...I'm taking up my 5g to see how it does vs. my friends 5g and a Prelude and Integra from our local club.