I was looking at a old Max Power DVD "The Beasts unleashed", and there was a lad called Gary Taylor from Jersey, and he had a astra running 4x4, does anybody know any more about this sort of conversion or who i could contact. Cheers!
all you city boys are spoilt im lucky if i get straight road 20% of the time.
4x4 would be great for me as its nearly all B roads i drive on.
thats why my car is aways a mess
a 4x4 astra would be good but its a bit of a waste putting in an inferior 4x4 system that the cav/cally use
better off spinning the lump round and fitting a sierra 4x4 system
Theres also little point in having 4x4 after the start line where its just dead weight for the rest of the run
I have always thought about on a cav/cally 4*4 why not after the first part of a 1/4 mile run wire up a switch so the ecu thinks your breaking thus turning of the 4*4 system and not more drag.
if you are going to go to the trouble of cutting up an astra and going for a 4by4 turbo you may as well drop in a cossie lump and assosciated running gear.
And something else more worrying is happening. There is a debate about theVauxhall 4x4 that so far 'we' are winning, well ok... not losing.... I mean.. no-one is crying... no-one with a 4x4 that is....
Just saying I thought he was refering only to Drag runs at that moment! Obviously in other conditions its a whole other kettle of fish. I'll stay out of this conversation lol.
Due to improvments in tyres and the introduction of silica, modern high performance tyres now offer similar wet performance as dry. Hence the advantage of 4x4 in wet is much reduced from what it was only a few years ago.
Where 4x4 wins is traction, eg powering hard out of corners, or coming of roundabouts. However for sweeping high speed corners where the car is maintaining speed, lateral grip is more important. My view is that 4x4 makes little or no difference for this type of corner.
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