@Ratonmone that would be amazing if the front ones are locked straight and the gearing/gearbox is basically backwards so it has all gears going back wards, then mount the front seat facing out the back window, along with a pedal box and steering wheel/rack and boom, cheaper rwd conversion ( super simplified as there'd be more to it and you might aswell do an actual rwd conversion in the time/effort that would take lol). They do out of the box things so i wouldn't be surprised if they pulled something like that off
Friend of mine had a FWD with a welded diff. I don't remember the exact car, but it was a little hatch back import that was used on a farm. There actually was a front diff cover, so the Lincoln locker install was pretty easy for the previous owner. They had also removed the rear hatch, deleted the rear seat and installed a plywood divider (made a tiny FWD pickup with a locked diff). It wasn't bad on dirt (had power steering), but was instantly un-driveable on pavement (that's when we found out about the locker). Since he didn't want to put a $700 diff in a $300 car we cut the intermediate shaft. Short mechanics lesson, in a FWD the trans-axle (transmission) is on one side, and the engine is on the other. If the CV (axle shafts) are different lengths the car will torque steer. So the intermediate shaft runs behind the engine, so the CVs are equal length. The CV stub also holds the wheel bearing together, so you can't delete them. We then put a sleeve on the intermediate shaft, and packed it with grease. Now thew car was one wheel drive instead of locked. Worked pretty good (unless it was raining). He drove that (crap) box for 3 years until he finished college. Burned some oil, so he never changed it (just topped off, no new filter). Overheated a time or two, refilled the radiator with whatever (usually flat soda). Scrapped it for $200 afterwards. Good buy.
In my youth I spent time at a place where we repaired brand new Lada's and fso stuff that didn't survive the journey over here (one pick up truck had the wrong cam fitted into the wrong head onto the wrong bottom end and had valve-crown contact so didn't even turn over but was still delivered to the UK!)so having driven plenty of these I can say that if you try cornering at more than 10 mph even in the dry it will feel like a welded diff anyway,sublime they are not!
True, the newer FWD Ladas aren't that great. The older ones (made during Soviet times) were apparently better, they still had a bit of Porsche DNA left in them. But then came the Russian Federation, the economy fell on rough times, and we saw a ton of cost cutting.
Yes, im from Torino, im a mechanic so i know well the fiat models who generate the first ladas, and here we use much the, niva for offroad and it is definetly not bad (if you check all the bolts before use the first time), the new models are junk
I broke a rear driveshaft on a 4x4 with a locked front diff and had to drive home just using the front wheel drive... VERY perilous on the highways!... The car pulled STRONGLY to the right on acceleration and STRONGLY to the left on deceleration... And in that zone where the vehicle speed closely matched the engine speed and the tension in the drivetrain alternated between slight tension and slight drag, the thing would wildly and unpredictably jerk from one side to the other... Not a lot of fun in a lifted Samurai with lots of body roll.
Reminded me of the old 1979 Toyota Crown 2.6 I had about 12yrs ago. Previous owner welded the diff, intent on using it off road. I used it as my daily driver in the city. Handle fine in the city, and had better grip/control on gravel. Man, I really miss that car now.....quite rare here in New Zealand.
Installed a limited slip diff in my 92 chevy 2wd pickup, its nice, but let me tell ya its so easy to get it to fish tail in winter compared to the factory rear end that was in it. The only issue I ran in to, My truck as 235/75/15 tires, one rear tire blew out so I installed my spare, a 235/70/15,of it wont make a difference I kept telling myself, but the rear end absolutely hates it. but pulling a trailer out of a muddy yard with a 2wd drive pick up with my neighbors thinking im going to get stuck, its satisfying lol.
@@AdriandeMorcerf yea ,that right. The front wheel will start making chirping noise,tire life will decrease and making wider turns but worst than rear wheel drive cars. Welded diff or 2.0way lsd are for off road and drag cars. The best lsd is for road use is 1.5way.
This has got to be one of the Top Ne Kulturni Videos of AD 2020, there is such a thing as a Differential Lock, try that one next and get some super Grip Snow Tires / Chains..!
Best torque steer was on the very first MG Montego Turbo's, with a fixed rate PAS pump giving it juice on a bend straightened the steering up and you were fighting the PAS which has the engine power on its side or if you did manage to win the fight, the super pressure in the PAS would send you at speed across the road or into a ditch, they had to retro fit variable rate pumps as the lawsuits were a-piling up hehe It was lucky the Tickfords built MG Maestro's had variable PAS from the start as they were well more powerful than the Montego version.
so what % of extra steering can you get or lose with weld-diff vs un-welded vs tank-computer 💻controlled or manual mode for thar matter? on a normal road car like the mg or a RWD-car or 4x4-car
This video is older than the last one.. The videos posted on their English translated channel are not in the same order they're posted on their regular Russian channel.
Looks like Ruined gearbox/car , but epic fun, welding a diff is a bad idea, but it's great fun to see, I had a lsd in my old car, I miss it, the lsd improved handling acceleration deceleration, made the car much safer to drive fast. This video was great to see.
In the early 00s it was very common at the Greek countryside to take old hatchbacks strip them off interior ect and welding the diff to be used almost like ATVs , for the fields or just for fun 😉
I can clearly see that you guys are a very skilled auto shop - can you show some of the high end projects you are working on or have completed - all the joke projects are awesome and why i come to your content - but show the world some of the other stuff you can do
Lately, when I find myself getting a little lazy or slacking off, I just imagine the big guy saying "OK, let's do this!" and then a shitload of works gets done. Also, put a Lada on tank tracks.
@@Glenn7719 generally they do but they put detroit lockers in the diffs for when you get on the gas they lock but for rolling they unlock. Or people put air lockers in them
@@diarrhea_fart Im just saying, ive got an old 1989 Mazda 323 4x4 Turbo that has a diff lock button. Which basically does what i said, press it, locks all 4 wheels. Would get you out the shit if you're stuck, i think thats what it might have been made for. This is talking 30 odd year old tech. So nothing new really, just funny seeing a fwd car with a locked diff i suppose, which it is. :D
I have an idea: can you convert a FWD-based AWD car, with the engine mounted transversely in the front, into RWD? I mean, it still has a center driveshaft and a rear diff! Would really like to see this, because I think that BMW turning its cars into FWD, while still having the option of AWD, isn't really worth it! ;-D
With the welded diff on that car it would be cool as hell if you had some kind of push button tire chains of some sort. Or like the motorcycle tire with all the screws in it, if you could have a regular tire for the street then when u hit the snow push a button and some sort of extra traction device goes on or out of the tires. Know what I mean? That would be awesome!! Paddle tires for the sand also do very well in the snow! That would be something to think about maybe?? Idk...
@@submariner144 Not really. Measure inputs from the pedal etc and write software on C++ driven by arduino to send signals emulating the pedal. Steering wheel is bit harder as you need hefty servo motor to move it, but pretty easy. After that you can put RC receiver and drive your 1:1 scale RC or make remote controller that takes input from another arduino again what gets its input from keyboard. You can also add cameras to make it FPV RC. Only hard part is the coding and whole project costs roughly 500€ top of the actual vehicle price.
This is like driving a motorcycle with a sidecar attached. It needs an insane amount of force to turn the steering and it likes to steer itself in different directions depending on if you are accelerating or slowing down. I have an IMZ-Ural and my shoulders are sore and palms are bruised after long rides.
you should consider building a snow eating machine out of a front drive lada someday the kind that have rotating shovels inside and shoot the snow to the air
Do a big lift on it with some military or off road type tires.. Think if it was taller it would have kept going no probs!!! .. BIG LIFT and OFFROAD TRUCK TIRES.. Fwd monster truck car
if anyone cares, in dirt rally id setup my fwd cars with max front lock to simulate welded diff, and it was great on gravel/rally cross. The straight line and exit speed would crush the records
