This is awesome - I can have my evo in rear wheel drive and it sounds, according to this article, fairly simple to go back to awd...Lucas or any other mechanics, what do you think?

Ok, so I lose almost a second in zero to sixty, and keeping tires on the back would cost a fortune, but damn, this looks like it would be fun!

http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do...ticleId=115637


Modified by Rhys Millen to drift, this Mitsubishi Evo lets its rear wheels do all the power sliding
By John Pearley Huffman, Contributor Email


Date posted: 06-05-2006

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Turning Mitsubishi's all-wheel-drive icon, the Lancer Evolution IX, into a drifting machine for The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift takes an act of perversion: The front wheels must be disconnected from the drivetrain to turn the Evo into a rear-wheel-driver. This is like asking Luciano Pavarotti to perform Rigoletto without any melodies or Eminem to rap without rhyming.

But moviemaking sometimes demands that a car be robbed of its talents. So using a kit developed by Rhys Millen Racing (RMR), eight of the 10 brand-new Japanese-market Evo IXs donated to the Tokyo Drift production by Mitsubishi were converted to rear-drive drift cars by replacing the differential's output assembly with one that leaves out the splines to drive the front wheels and capping the output holes in the transfer case. The stock transverse-mounted six-speed transmission is left alone, as is the rest of the drivetrain. Converting an Evo IX back to all-wheel drive should be just as straightforward.

The Tokyo Drift Evo IXs were also lowered over Eibach springs and fitted with APR's wide-body kit and those oversize fenders were filled with 19-by-8.5-inch Ray's G-Games 99B wheels and 255/35R19 Toyo Proxes T1R tires. RMR also modified the steering knuckles for additional angle and upsized the brakes with Brembo discs and calipers. The turbocharged, 2.0-liter, four-cylinder engines were left essentially stock except for the addition of an RMR exhaust system. Power is up from the stock 286 horsepower at the crank to 289.5 hp at the rear wheels, measured on a chassis dynamometer.

With its Modern Image graphics, the Mitsubishi Evo IX looked as if carved from a block of freeze-dried adrenaline: a bundle of nervous energy with four doors and a big wing. Inside, The Fast and the Furious production team replaced the stock instrument cluster with AutoMeter gauges in a carbon-fiber plate and swapped out the steering wheel for a Sparco unit with a quick-disconnect hub. The Recaro seats aren't too radically shaped, but being in this little beast is like sitting on the end of a raw nerve.

Lots of power and a mere 103.3-inch wheelbase mean this drift car wants to go sideways all the time — there may as well be windshield wipers on the door windows. So, no surprise, a rear-wheel-drive Mitsubishi Evo is tougher to launch than an all-wheel-drive one, and this one could manage the trip to 60 mph in 6.6 seconds and complete the quarter in 14.5 seconds at 103.6 mph — a slug compared to the 4.9-second 0-60 time and 13.3 seconds at 103-mph performance of the last stock U.S.-market Evo IX Inside Line tested.

For anything except drifting, the all-wheel-drive Lancer Evolution IX is a better machine. In fact, it's an all-time great.

 

What they don't tell you is I would only assume sticking all that power to only one diff has to be alittle hard on it. Plus I have read that because of the weight distribution and the layout of the car the handling is terrible going to RWD. I guess you could always try it though.

 

Have a talk with Rich Rutherford who drives the blue and silver Tools Racing RWD drift evo and see how many tcases he goes through. I spoke with him last summer during the practice session for the D1 event in Monroe. Its taken something as small a burnout to appease the crowd and puke went the tcase.

 

Like others said if you really did make the rear hook or had some wheel hop things will break.

Would be easy to convert and could be done for around $200. Pull side of the T- case and put a welded VC in and take apart one front axle if its a non lad car and put the cups back in there places and start drifting.

 

yooo drift APR Evo... lol

but it sweet.. there an Formula d Evo Cosworth/cooper tire evo 8 (blue n sliver) drift.. like D1 STI yukos Orange STIs

Ryon actually it Formula D on monroe.. he broke evo.. couldnt race on that event on monroe last summer.. and D1 is japanese drift big start JDM drivers.. only come USA in Vegas and Irdwinway califorina..

i always want see D1 actions.. but i met 3 Driver of D1 and alot Formula D driver.. thanks to Panic Mode n Drift frim and BOB drift office for all fun ever i had! and matt's Ae86 drift office's car red soooo insane! i rode once... wow..

 

yeah, I kindof figured there might be some issues with taking something that's built for 150hp and suddenly doubling what you're asking it to handle...oh well, thought it was an interesting article. Thanks.

 

 

which u confused?

 

60 mph in 6.6 seconds and complete the quarter in 14.5 seconds at 103.6 mph — a slug compared to the 4.9-second 0-60 time and 13.3 seconds at 103-mph performance of the last stock U.S.-

 

But wouldn't passing speed improve due to less drivetrain power loss?

 

less grip 2 though

 

IF you can get traction, the least amount of drive wheels = greater accelleration.

 

I just can't understand why. An evo without our magic AWD is like a puppy without legs... sad and wrong.

 

I think it would be awesome if stuff wouldnt break.

 

Well.. thats why I said passing speed I was under the impression awd sucked a lot of our HP.