Hi,
Would it be worth doing a FWD delete if I have the tip?
Thanks,

 

Sure. Less weight and better steering feel. The same as if you had a manual trans.

 

unless you install either a TBD or plate type LSD you will "occasionally" expose your car to "one wheel drive" scenarios by eliminating the awd.

you will hate that, when it happens when under certain more extreme driving conditions. for tooling around the street, you probably won't notice anything untoward.

 

Pull the cardan shaft and drive it around a bit.
its not about being worth it, its really a personal preference. Just be careful if you want to turn psm off, the car gets super fun without it.

 

My car is RWD converted. In addition to adding a LSD (I have a wavetrac) I would also rec adding a touch my camber up front to make it seem a little less "darty" and more stable.

 

I thought that I read that the tip cars would have an issues without the awd working?
It was more for the 6 speed cars no problem doing it.

 

It was proboably in jest referring to the driver, these cars are too old to know when they're missing fwd.
The steering feel is much nicer, just go drive a 2wd 996/997 tip to sample and try it out w/o actually doing anything.

 

Well I had an 996 mk1 c2 and it was very light in steering feel. I might have to try this and see how it is.

 

I converted my old C4S to rear wheel drive, and my Turbo is currently RWD because I pulled the cardan shaft to dyno it a couple months ago and decided to leave it out for a bit.

I'm going back and forth on whether to put the AWD back or not. On the C4S it was great and I preferred it that way, but with nearly double the power in the Turbo I'm inclined to keep it AWD until I can get around to installing a LSD.

I also still have the pipe dream of installing a front diff from a 997.2 and finding out some way to control the clutch pack in it (I think the bias is controlled by either a 0-5v signal or a 0-12v signal but haven't been able to confirm).

 

Doesn't it drive funny with all the AWD hardware still there, but not hooked up?

 

Nope, drives totally normal. The steering is a tad lighter and that's about it. There are no sensors or electronics associated with the AWD on these, so the car has no idea whether the AWD is there or not.

 

That's pretty neat - one would think that the front drive shafts, CVs, hubs would all detract from the overall steering feel - unless of course, you pulled that as well.

Are you going to leave it as such? Is there a benefit to going to GT2(Phenix) uprights at the front and go all the way to 2wd permanently? Must say, I would be curious to try one that has been converted.