Burnouts In Stagea Question

[AlexCim]

not the normal "pull the fuse" type question but here goes

I want to do some burnouts, I know it is best to remove the driveshaft but torque is still transfered to the front wheels, just not put down onto the ground due to well... lacking a drive shaft

Soooooo

- if i remove the drive shaft do i still get "full" power to the rears for roasting or only 50% as the other 50 is being transfered through the imaginary drive shaft

or

- if by removing the fuse AND drive shaft, i eliminate the normal "residual pressure" issue will i get more power to the rear?

Hope you all understand what i am asking here...

[munchstagea]

I have pondered this myself Alex,

Depending on how the transfer-case actually works and how the power is "split"... I guess in theory if the front shaft is removed and the 4WD system is still active the clutch packs will be compressed but as they have nothing rotating them they will just sit there happily. The output will be spinning away on the transfer-case (where the front shaft was connected) as will the rear shaft (driving the rear wheels) How much power does it take to spin the disconnected transfer-case? I guess that would be "the loss", and as it is just free-wheeling I can't see how it would drag too much power from the rear drive...

Interested to hear what the actual answer is, but I won't be dropping any wheelies!

I think Japsphere has a good example of how it didn't effect his car on the dyno with a great rear-wheel figure from a stock car.

Cheers

Luke

[AlexCim]

i will be, cars going to spray paint early next week....

[CruiseLiner]

turning the big chain and gear in the transfer case that drives the front shaft wont take much power at all, though its one damn heavy duty setup when u look inside the transfer case. i drove around in 2wd with no front shaft for the whole 1200km without a hitch and damn did it do some crazy donuts and skids

oh the memories

wont be long until i do it again with alot more power and ill be sure to get a video of it when i do

i got pics of the transfer case internals on my other hard drive, ill post them up when i get time to show ya's whats inside the case

[AlexCim]

ok, i was under the impression it somehow "robbed" the rear of power.

ok, cool, question answered