Four wheel drive conversion

Custom_V6_Limited_SE · October 12th, 2005, 8:38 pm

Do you mean for my friends Eclipse or for my MX-3? Maybe it would be better just to get really good tires and leave it front wheel drive LOL.

Juans_93_MX3 · Post by **Juans_93_MX3** » October 15th, 2005, 10:54 am

How about you find a way to put chassis on your MX3, drop in a V8 and RWD (of course) and build from there?

rmcg5 · Post by **rmcg5** » January 11th, 2006, 12:12 am

Juans_93_MX3 wrote:How about you find a way to put chassis on your MX3, drop in a V8 and RWD (of course) and build from there?

V8???? what are you insane.... this is a mazda forum..... 3 rotor cosmos engine!!!! now your talking RWD power!!!!!

LooseChangeRacing · January 17th, 2006, 6:21 pm

V8???? what are you insane.... this is a mazda forum..... 3 rotor cosmos engine!!!! now your talking RWD power!!!!! Very Happy

Well heck, let me just go get the 787B engine, 4 rotor hehe

rmcg5 · Post by **rmcg5** » January 18th, 2006, 6:25 pm

LooseChangeRacing wrote:
V8???? what are you insane.... this is a mazda forum..... 3 rotor cosmos engine!!!! now your talking RWD power!!!!! Very Happy
Well heck, let me just go get the 787B engine, 4 rotor hehe

oooooohhhh.... the power..... mmmmmmm..... now your talking.....

andthisguy · Post by **andthisguy** » February 15th, 2006, 5:24 am

WHY?!

andthisguy · Post by **andthisguy** » February 15th, 2006, 5:28 am

seriously, if you're having traction problems.... learn something about suspension tuning.. there's a great book at barnes and nobles called "the art of suspension tuning" by... shi t, i forget the author......

anyway, good luck cutting out a tranny tunnel... try a plasma cutter... and a big saw!!

I think this guy just wants attention....well, you def got it!!!

babyblueMX3 · Post by **babyblueMX3** » February 15th, 2006, 12:49 pm

andthisguy wrote:seriously, if you're having traction problems.... learn something about suspension tuning.. there's a great book at barnes and nobles called "the art of suspension tuning" by... shi t, i forget the author......

anyway, good luck cutting out a tranny tunnel... try a plasma cutter... and a big saw!!

I think this guy just wants attention....well, you def got it!!!

old post !!

DavidOS · Post by **DavidOS** » March 6th, 2006, 4:05 am

Custom_V6_Limited_SE wrote:When I accomplish these modifications I'll post a video of what happens when I wager $1000 against a friend of mine that said "Lol you smoke me?!?!?! Lol you are dilusional, by the time you get your car running fast my car will be much faster than it is : P I'm no where hear done haha". He dosen't graduate until he's 19 in 2007 and he's running an Eclipse (not sure what year, late 90's?) with a T3/T4 hybrid turbo and several thousand dollars worth of other mods and he's planning to do a four wheel drive job on his car that he thinks will make his car beat mine.
He gets 10mpg because he has his turbo set so that it turns on if he hits the gas at all.
Right now I think he said he can do a run in the 10's and he thinks that he might get it in the 9's with the four wheel drive conversion. Supposedly he knows someone that did a 7.9 (I'll have to see what he's running).

your buddy most likley doesnt have a 10 or 9 second awd car. They cost and a-- load to get them going that quick cause drivetrains s--- themselves so much under large hp. especially eclipses.
in fact i saw recently an Mitsu evo drag off between japanese top tuners,
JUN evo had 550hp awd, the thing is retarded and only pulled a 10.01
not one of them broke into the 9s with their awd streetable/drag setup.

Josh · Post by **Josh** » April 21st, 2006, 10:26 pm

i have an AWD MX3, ha ha

normally AWD cars dont do so well in the drags, the FWD Mitsus are pulling on the AWD cars when they get into the big hp numbers. BUT .... the AWD cars will always have the better 60' time. the problem is they dont have the top end speeds the FWD cars do, they are just pully too much drag, so you throw the same motor in a FWD and you have way less drag.

Custom_V6_Limited_SE · April 28th, 2006, 11:51 pm

WOW, I thought this topic was dead by now lol. I have learned a lot since I first posted this (along with deciding to go to a university to continue my degree work). So, my altered and "slightly" more practical plans (at least for the next few years) envolve getting a KLZE and the latest MegaSquirt system and then possibly turbo charging and possibly building up the engine, but, I can't go too crazy because this is gonna be my daily driver at the moment. This should keep me busy for long enough for the time being since I am taking a full-time load of college again starting this fall. Maybe I will do something like an insanely built engine with 1000+whp (that would take what? 70psi? lol, maybe less with N2O) for fun when I get a good paying job with Microsoft or something LOL. hehehehehe

O, and btw, I think there was some major confusion over the run times on that eclipse (which he blew up btw) I'm not sure what he was running but it couldn't have been anything overly impressive. Right now, he is running a Talon SI (Early 90's) AWD turbo. I think the best he has gotten with it so far is a 13.1 on 20psi of boost. He is thinking that he will run 12's if he ups the boost to 25psi (he has a built engine), but, I think it would be funny if he blew up another car (he is on his fifth one). He is "MitsuMike" on http://www.team-2g.com (second highest poster). Although, there is someone around that is easily running 10's. Are you ready for this? Toyota Supra, Turbo Charged 2JZ engine, ~1000whp

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Custom_V6_Limited_SE · April 29th, 2006, 10:07 am

I just had an idea

. Maybe the eclipse guy was talking about 1/8th mile runs and I just didn't hear that part

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