....and making the car fwd? would fluid pour out? acd burn up? not talking about racing it, just driving it. would it hurt anything?
just a stupid curious question thats all.

 

I have no clue but try it and report back

 

If you removed the driveshaft, I would imagine it would leak out all of the rear diff fluid and transfer case fluid ultimately leading to super death whines. Plus you would have a front wheel drive Evo.

 

Boring question is boring.. FWD evo is gay. Now removing the front axles and making a RWD evo? That would be pretty epic. Somebody try it an let us know how it goes!!

 

Eliminate rear section of driveshaft because if you remove front, it will leak since front slips in

 

Oneof the diffs would probably get smoked as well, I believe the diff inside the transmission because its the link between the output shaft to the transfer case. When you floor it and the output shaft sees no resistance it's gonna slip the **** out of the diff.

 

Yup. Kiss the center diff goodbye.

 

When you pull the driveshaft that leaves a hole in the transfer case you'd have to plug. Back at the rear differential there is a flat plate the driveshaft bolts to so no leak there.

DSMs used a viscous coupling with hump mode which means they would lock. Put a DSM without a drive shaft in gear and after a few seconds the car starts to move. People drove them around this way. Eventually the viscous coupling would fail. An Evo 8, if the viscous coupling also has hump mode, would be the same.

With ACD, depending on the mode selected, the ACD clutch may supply enough grip to get the car moving. However, you'd find the engine revving and the car coasting in turns.