Will you lose power if you diconnect the drive shaft to the rear wheels and just run off of the front wheels only Can this be done.....What does your car do if your front diff. goes bad

 

Id imagine it may **** up the Transfer case and your diffs. I dont own an Evo but i dont think its the same thing as push button 4x4.

 

i heard if u pull your e-brake to a certain angle u can get fwd i think its in the manual

 

why would you want to do this??

 

better gas milage

 

Judging by his mods I don't think he's doing it for gas mileage. I don't think cruising with the e-brake on will help mileage either.

I wouldn't do it. You could cook your TC. If your center diff didn't go out you would probably put down a bigger number on the dyno cause of less drivetrain loss but, it isn't practical.

 

Your drive axels were designed to split engine power across all four wheels....send all that power to the front only, (aside from the center diff damage) and you risk damage to a drive axel and c/v joint.

 

I think that's only with the MR that has ACD.

 

^^ Yep, i'm pretty sure thats only the MR's.

 

You cn do it with doing something with a viscs coupler (sp) because im going to dyno my evo on a mustang dyno and they have to covert it to fwd and they said it wont lose any power just transer it all the front wheels. But to go out and drive around i dont think we would get much traction cruzin arond fwd

 

Get a Honda Civic

 

If the front differential has trouble putting half of the evo's power to the ground what is going to happen if it is tasked with putting all the power to the ground?

 

Make a shift lever or pushbutton to convert from FWD, RWD or AW

 

Well I took off my rear drive shaft and had only front wheel drive. The car had no power at all it was like the clutch was gone do you think my front diff might be bad....

 

Uh, no....its designed to work with all 4 wheels. Its just like having an open differential on a truck, and having one wheel off the ground, it'll spin and spin till it touches the ground again. Why the hell did you take the driveshafit off, fun?