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Old Jan 17, 2013 | 08:49 PM
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AWD mustang?

Well I was playing forza and there was a option to swap the drivetrain to AWD. I wonder how this would be in real life if it could be done; how good would it really be?
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Old Jan 17, 2013 | 09:05 PM
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I love my AWD GT500 on there. It's beast haha
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Old Jan 17, 2013 | 09:43 PM
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Originally Posted by SilverSkoundrel
I love my AWD GT500 on there. It's beast haha
Do awd plus all the handling upgrades and weight stripping. Also you have to upgrade the tranny or it won't work well for your speed. I love it so much wish there was a way to do it irl.
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Old Jan 17, 2013 | 10:30 PM
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Fast and furious style, swap an rb26 plus the AWD hardware from a skyline. Haha.


To be honest there's no good way to do this in real life. I mean, with fat enough pockets anything is possible, but for the most part, if you want AWD buy a WRX or an evo or something.
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Old Jan 17, 2013 | 10:42 PM
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I would hope the 'real' production car is never an AWD car! No offense to AWD I just think an AWD Mustang would be heresy! IMHO, but I bet an AWD Mustang game would rock!!
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Old Jan 17, 2013 | 10:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Mustang Freak
I would hope the 'real' production car is never an AWD car! No offense to AWD I just think an AWD Mustang would be heresy! IMHO, but I bet an AWD Mustang game would rock!!
Honestly in the game AWD makes it sooooooo much better to drive. If it came with AWD I bet it would finally be able to beat the GTR, it would also need launch control.
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Old Jan 17, 2013 | 10:59 PM
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I was wondering about an awd mustang earlier today. Lol weird..
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Old Jan 17, 2013 | 10:59 PM
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Heresy or not, if it *sold*, they'd make 'em.

That being said, I can pretty safely say it'll never happen. A Probe type replacement is more likely, and y'all remember how that worked out, right?
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Old Jan 17, 2013 | 11:07 PM
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They wouldn't make it I know that. It would be awesome though....but what I'd really want is another RS500 like the one from the 90's or was it the 80's?
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Old Jan 17, 2013 | 11:34 PM
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While I agree with you than *in forza* AWD does make a significant improvement in a lot of cars.

But do you really, honestly want an AWD mustang in real life? It would be heavy, like 4000 pounds probably with all the extra drivetrain parts. And all that extra weight would be on the nose of an already nose heavy car. Can you say understeer like a pig? Plus AWD systems are comparatively fragile. Go to a Subaru forum and see how many people are talking about blown up diffs and trannys and axles and clutches.

Plus what could is a mustang without smoky burnouts and power oversteer? Haha
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Old Jan 17, 2013 | 11:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Kevin509
While I agree with you than *in forza* AWD does make a significant improvement in a lot of cars.

But do you really, honestly want an AWD mustang in real life? It would be heavy, like 4000 pounds probably with all the extra drivetrain parts. And all that extra weight would be on the nose of an already nose heavy car. Can you say understeer like a pig? Plus AWD systems are comparatively fragile. Go to a Subaru forum and see how many people are talking about blown up diffs and trannys and axles and clutches.

Plus what could is a mustang without smoky burnouts and power oversteer? Haha
True all are valid points. Maybe if they just made the base model a 4 banger like the svo and made it AWD with a turbo. That wouldn't weigh too much!
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Old Jan 18, 2013 | 05:46 AM
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Moving to 'General Mustang Chat' section, but will leave a link for a few hours . . .
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