joshafmil

so im planning on building a kit car with fox internals. the nice thing about kit cars are, you can basically customize them whatever which way you desire.

sooo here comes the question!

any of you know about any kind of AWD system i could adapt to the 302 (or 351). im guessing the answer will be no, and im sure alot of you will be like, wtf?

the kit i want to make will weight roughtly around 2200-2300 lbs completed. so with some big power, itll be fun getting it from the wheels to the pavement. it will be setup for a road course. its gonna have IRS... i figured it would be a kool project to get AWD included, tho unlikely.

EDIT: the kit http://www.factoryfive.com/coupehome.html

mattdel

hell yah. 302's in explorers and mountaineers are AWD. go snag a whole driveline.

stang8689

WTF

joshafmil

are you sure they arent 4x4? tho i dont really know the difference (if there is) between 4x4 and AWD...

mattdel

they are AWD.
4x4 is actually 2 wheels driven with LSD on the other 2 wheels.
AWD is all 4 at once. 25% each.

Maxwelhse

Mountaineers - for certain - are AWD (I think Explorers came either way?). But... I'm betting the setup weighs more than you would like.

AWDs usually use a viscous/electronic coupling of some sort (ie differential in the transfer case) to split output shaft speeds front to rear. Usually its a 40/60, 30/70 type of arrangment depending on traction conditions.

Fulltime 4x4s are 50/50 with a manually lockable differential.

Most modern 4x4s/2x4s when in 4x4 mode are 50/50 LOCKED without a differential. That would be a poor choice for a road race car (front end skids all over the place on dry pavement).

joshafmil

wouldnt go the 4x4 route, but awd is interesting... the thing im wondering about is how the suspension is set up. that may be the biggest bitch of em all

adumb

those kit cars can be pretty pricey to begin with never mind trying to do something custom like you want... get your equity line all set on your house cause you will need it for sure.

vt89gtvert

My girl works for a company that gets fleet vehicles, and she has an AWD F-250. I argued that they don't make them for about 3 hours before I gave up, but now know that it truely is awd. Since they order like 200 a year or so, they can custom order their stuff apparently. Now getting that to work in your very small kit car is another story.

joshafmil

my other forum ( the one for the kit ) is basically giving me the run down on it, i guess others have tried it. its more about space then anything so far. [:@]

lol oh well. its a kool idea atleast