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Old 10-17-2003, 02:46 PM   #4 (permalink)
Knoweffects
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it depends what you want it for? normal driveing? it dosnt matter, if it does then maby fwd.

If your going to race it around corners, RWD, if its not raining out and you dont just blindly floor it (or if you dont have a large ammount of horsepower, it takes a good ammount to kick the rear end out on a dry well paved road). FWD cars generaly handle worse on turns than RWD cars, and FWD cars have huge problems with handling+big horsepower.

If your going to try to Drag race it depends what you plan on doing. Not going to have a whole lot of horsepower? want something light? plan on gutting EVERYTHING you can behind the engine bay? go FWD. Plan on getting a decent ammount of horsepower, an auto tranny, and useing slicks? go RWD. plan on going faster than 11seconts? prolly go RWD. Without a large ammount of horsepower useualy FWD is slightly better for the strip because all your weight is on your drive wheels, BUT everything behind them is totaly dead weight, with RWD the weight of the car slightly helps traction, but once you get some power on launch your weight shifts and provides traction, in fact if you get enough to get the front tiers off the ground 100% of the weight of the car is adding to traction.

anyways, sorry to give you a page of text rather than a simple awnser, but hope i helped some.
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