Awd??
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Ok as some of you know I have a 88 Saab 900 Turbo. What I wanna end up doing is tuning it up to be a rally/road race car. Now I've watched rally for a little time now and most if not all the WRC cars are AWD. Is there a way to put awd on my car or what. Because I think like the Puegots and the Citroens have the Cosworth engine in them. Just so you know the Saabs are a FWD longetudinally mounted engine.
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prolly not
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MrScary wrote:
Ok as some of you know I have a 88 Saab 900 Turbo. What I wanna end up doing is tuning it up to be a rally/road race car. Now I've watched rally for a little time now and most if not all the WRC cars are AWD. Is there a way to put awd on my car or what. Because I think like the Puegots and the Citroens have the Cosworth engine in them. Just so you know the Saabs are a FWD longetudinally mounted engine.The ability to complete this type of project is going to be directly proportionate to the depth of your wallet.
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MrScary wrote:
Well in the end would it even be worth? How much better handling would I get out of it? Any increase in power output, like putting the horses to the ground?Answers to questions in the order asked:
No
Probably worse understeer (unless your car is FWD...then it might be marginally better).
No, you would likely lose HP due to more moving parts/rotating mass. -
you would be better off buying a car with awd then spending five times the value of your car to make it work. I would guess that you could be an owner of a wrx/sti for the price a shop around here would charge you to convert your existing vehicle properly-if they would even attempt such a thing- Even if that is the route you are willing to travel you would still have no more of a rally car then when you started...(stock suspension, odds are poor gearing for such an event, less power then stock trim, and most importantly a large hole in your pocket)
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Saab sells an AWD platform in the states as well...based 100% on the WRX...actually, it is a WRX w/ Saab styling.
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Oh yea I forgot about the 9-2x. Its sweet but it would be better as a sedan than a wagon. First new question, it has a little intercooler on that sits inside the engine bay, if I got a front mount IC would I be able to put 3inch intake piping in?
Not sure if you can see all the piping there and the amount of room.
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well... there's a difference between being able to do it, and whether or not it will improve the performance. your car likely has a 50-60mm (2-2.4") throttle body, do you really think that a 3" (75mm) intercooler pipe will improve anything?
if you look at many cars that run in auto-x (primarily), they use smaller piping.
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