Wtf would you increase the negative chamber in a fwd on the front it makes it worse

Gaz Girl if u apply negative camber correctly, it will improve ur handling response due to larger surface contact, but it would make the tires wear out unevenly, or u can try use the cambertire which is made for the purpose of negative cambering. if i'm not mistaken, they have -2,-3, and -5. just google cambertire, it will show up

How about just buying a better engineered car?

***** well not everyone got the money to buy a better car, especially when u live in one of the worst country to buy a car like malaysia

mat arif leen just messing around dude

Dont see many rwds running rally racing anymore, really havent seen them since the 80's and the death of group b.

@@g00gleisgayerthanaids56 Now its 4wd for low-high class in rally and fwd for lower. fwd is pretty mutch only used in low racing and rally classes, especially back in the days. Rwd was the norm and i think its still in f1 at least. There were actually a few competitive rwd rallycars a few years after group b but almost only on tarmac.

@@vintageman91 rwd makes more sense on a prepped track with a downforce car thats glued to the road, yes f1 cars are still rwd. For the record, i prefer rwd, just feel compelled to defend fwd as i do believe it is superior in most applications, i personally dont care about that and prefer to have fun in a rwd car.

@@g00gleisgayerthanaids56 Yes thats True about rwd.

Thanks for the PSA, it's wonderful! I do indeed try to include related info in the description.

Not a problem. I've watched your videos for years. Its amazing to see how well you've grown the channel. Even Car Throttle features your videos! You even got to drive a new stingray, I mean come on!

i could be wrong so correct me. I think awd is when you have all 4 wheels driving the car at all times and 4wd is when you have the option to drive 2wd but can engage all 4 wheels to drive the car also

Thank you Steve, i'll look into it.

Marc Dikranian the difference between awd and 4wd is .awd is when if the rear tires are sensed spinning faster then the front then the front will start spinning and engage all the wheels turning. 4wd is when the car always has all 4 wheels emgaged

I'd like to see more information on this as well. I think it is much more complicated than suggested. You have different differentials and computers adjusting wheel torque. 4WD is about engaging axles, not tires. There is also full time and part time 4WD. I've also seen videos of both AWD and 4WD vehicles not sending torque to tires that have grip. Differentials are another interesting topic (there is a lot of variety).

Marc, the KEY difference is AWD essentially has a center differential. This way it can be run all the time. 4WD does NOT have a center diff. Running 4WD down the highway can cause transmission failure as it winds up the trans. AWD can be driven down motorways. I do believe EE has made videos in this regard. Channel>playlists>look for drivetrain videos. I believe they are a bit old.

Hey im born on 15 oct too!

Pity it was during 27 bc

Yeah im dead

Rahul Bakshi How about eight? kzfaq.info/sun/PL2ir4svMoaYim-RSNWEh-aIfdcM6plSly

Woah! Thank You so very much.I really appreciate it. :)

Glad you enjoy the videos! I had the shirts available for a short time, I may do something again but likely not for a while. I post updates regarding this type of thing on FB if I do end up doing something. Thanks for the interest!

Depends on the purpose of the vehicle of course, but there's a reason it's quite common.

PocketDrummer having lowish power from NA 1.6 and how the swifts chassis is tuned and tyre setup. She has little to no understeer and little to no electronic tricks and complicated diffs. Yes rwd is better but the more I drive the swift the more I like fwd

Lawrence Monro Swift Sport is such an under appreciated car. Almost as enjoyable to drive as a BRZ or MX-5 and significantly cheaper too.

Yiannis Kaparos I prefer life.

Of course. It was a reference to an old Top Gear episode

Yiannis Kaparos I got the reference :D

I have a poor memory, forgive me!

Except when it get squirrelly in the corners at speed as the front tires don't have much weigh ton them. They've been slowly moving the drivetrain up little by little to even out the weight distribution.

corporalwaffles But I am a big guy lol. 246lbs. It evens out trust me. A passenger of any sort would too. Boxster S and Cayman are different though they have a mid rear engine. Actually in races that are stock the Boxster S will beat the 911 NA.

lol Falken tires.

AWD has a center differential, 4WD only has a front and rear. I think that's the major difference.

Yes he did. Search his videos for AWD and 4WD.

Links in video description. :)

Mahdi Ahmadi Big rear swaybar, big rear strutbar, higher air pressure in the rear tires, negative camber on the front wheels, wider and grippier tires in the front :)

In optinal conditions, rwd is king. On pretty much any other surface, awd is king, even in rainy weather. It is extremely stable in corners, much more than a rwd

Yep, mid and rear engines coming soon.

Thank u so much

F1Maniac2011 There are more drivetrain losses with AWD, so top speed will be decreased.

Oh okay, so the overall power output would be lower due to the drivetrain losses?

The driven wheels will typically wear more.

yes, but there is significantly less wear on the rear tires, so as long as you rotate your tires semi-often you should get the same life out of your tires as a RWD. (unless of course you have staggered sizes)

Top gear explains it perfectly

Dae Jin Kim It has to do with slip angles, and perhaps I'll make a more detailed video eventually, but think of it like throwing an arrow. The heavier part wants to stay in the front. This isn't entirely representative of what happens, but a simple idea. Also, as tires are loaded more, they tend to have a lower peak grip. That is to say, if you have a car sitting on a bank at a 45 degree angle, and it holds it, as you add weight, eventually the car will start to slide. It's complex, and I may make a video on this eventually, but basically the coefficient of friction decreases as the vertical load increases.

A higher weight results in a higher inertia of an object, which is basically an object's resistance to a force being applied to it. When you accelerate forward, the weight of the engine would push the front wheels down on the ground, as the car has no side-ways (lateral) momentum because the weight transfers to the back of the car during acceleration. During a turn, however, the weight of a heavier engine would tend to cause the car to continue traveling in the direction it is already traveling in, which is forward. (The car carries forward-momentum when it is traveling in a straight line). The heavier engine makes it more difficult and require more force to change direction at speed, due to the higher inertia. When the force required to turn the car is greater than the frictional force the tires can provide, that's when the understeer occurs. I hope my explanation is understandable.

Yes more weight = more traction but it is not a proportional relationsship. Looks up tire dynamics. You will find that the coefficient of friction first almost increases linearly with more added weights. But when getting close to the limit the coefficient drops, thus reducing grip at the front axles, and leading to understeer. So for maximum traction it is best to balance the weight over all driving wheels at any given point. For maximum turning, you balance the weight over the steering wheels, usually the front unless the car has a 4 wheel steering system. This is why shiftnig weight forwards (ie by jabbing the brakes slighty or breathing off the throttle) is beneficial to get a good corner entry in racing. Effects of weight transfer and tyre dynamics apply to all drive trains of course. The drive trains just bring certain characteristic with it that require a slighty change of driving style to get fastest lap times

9000Redline To add to my previous comment a FWD car tends to be frnot heavy. Which means in the steady state mid-corner (meaning no decel or accel happnening and instead all of the tire used for cornering) there will be more weight on the front axle. Due to added weight on the front axle the Cf will be lower on the front tires than the rear (on equal sized tires) and so the car will understeer (Note that 'understeer' as technical term in racing means the tires have a higher slip angle than the rear tires, so in a constant radius turn in an understeer situation you might still be able to hold the turn without coming off your line, but your front tires will work harder/heat up more/wear out faster as their slip angle is larger than the rears). Hope this explains it somewhat

@@TheChannel1978 and a tap of the brakes while on throttle usually corrects the understeer...

Check the video description.

Check out my video on understeer vs oversteer for insight into how to change it.

MakO AWD no matter what

that again depends on how they're tuned

FWD is the slowest since when you take off all the inertia moves behind the car and the front wheels loose grip. it will have the best MPG since it's the lightest RWD is faster in acceleration since the weight moves back and you have grip to put the power down since the weight inertia moves back. it's in the middle in terms of MPG AWD can be the fastest since it's most effective at putting down power. but it's the most heaviest and worst MPG.

kratos zuas depends on what u want it, any car is great around a circuit but it depends on the drivers skill. If you're all all about that boring ass drag racing then get a rwd or awd

Randy Pender It would be much easier to make it awd

Just buy a awd eclipse?

Going around a corner is a matter of friction, so any drivetrain can do it. AWD simply has an advantage in accelerating, where the maximum force which can be applied is greater than 2WD vehicles, this applies to exiting a corner as well.

what car is it?

nice car, i didnt know there was a 4wd version of the g35

Dario kruzk yea look at the video /watch?v=P2kR8ASIiPs , and i got videos on my page of me driving in the snow

thabg007 i watched it its pretty interesting! is there a manual way to lock the power to rwd or awd?

Dario kruzk well we have a snow mode swtich to lock it to 50/50 but after 12mph it goes back to auto mode, and to force it RWD only u have to remove the AWD solenoid or put a on/off switch between that solenoid and power wire

OhPoWneDiel Depends on the car. People like to through out averages around 15%, but honestly it's vehicle dependent as different parts/lubricants are used throughout making significant differences in how much power is useable.

The limit is further with a vehicle with the weight centered. Think about when a stability system might interfere - perhaps when swerving around an object in the road. A car with center weight rather than front heavy will be less likely to understeer and remain balanced.

Engineering Explained ahhh... ok, nice analogy with the TCS, i got the concept right away. :) Thanks!!!

No, it's the other way around. Front engine/front wheel drive will be more fuel efficient because everything's on front (engine, and driveshaft) . FWDs will almost always be more fuel efficient.

+Jose Polanco thanks a lot

Mmm hasn’t felt that way

john hanrahan I wouldn't say so, no. I don't know all of the models, but I know the CR-V is FWD when it doesn't need AWD. I believe the Golf R does the same thing, and I know there are many models out there that do. It's not always about track performance. Having the front wheels do the driving is generally considered to be safer (as it makes oversteer much more challenging to accidentally instigate), and it will yield better acceleration traction in adverse conditions (though, that's what AWD is for). Cheaper, and more efficient then sending power to rear with a front mounted engine. There are certainly real benefits.

Engineering Explained OK, fair enough. Thanks again for your expertise in explaining these things.

Engineering Explained John is onto something there. Auto AWD cars/soft-roaders (CRV etc) drive on FWD when AWD is disengaged. Most proper mud-plugers and pickups disengage the front wheels and drive with the differential when you disengage the off-road gear. It has been the general practice for ages.

Pk Karimurio Not only that, but consider this: If you're into um, shall we say 'sport driving'?, would you rather drift by jacking your parking brake on your FWD or lay your right foot down and POWERSLIDE your RWD car? As a former Lunatic driver with a 'misspent' youth, I can tell you with experience that powersliding corners (properly known as induced throttle oversteer) is the only way to go. If that doesn't put a smile on your face you either scared the shit out of your ass and down your leg, or are already a professional racer or you live in the Matrix.

john hanrahan haha! true! I have both a FWD car and a RWD car and as old as the latter is I can't get myself to sell it. On a winding road, RWD is so much fun - pushes you out of the corner instead of pulling you, no squealing overworked front tires. I've done a fair bit of off-road too and on gravel RWD gets the heart rate right up. In mud FWD does help because you can turn the wheels to improve traction when things get very thick (and the engine rests on driven wheels) but I'm not keen on mud without 4WD. Want cheap simple fun -> RWD with a limited slip diff is the way to go, life is fun even without expensive FWD torque vectoring in hot hatches.

woodie McKnight My name's Jason. :) I think that's a tough call. Ultimately AWD will be able to put down more power, but with RWD you save weight and efficiency, and at higher speeds the traction benefits of AWD decrease. Personally, I prefer AWD as it's more stable and I'm far from the world's greatest driver, but a mid-engine RWD setup is likely ideal. See Ferrari LaFerrai and McLaren P1. :)

Engineering Explained OK. Thanks Jason. I guess that's why in motorsport, at such high speeds, rwd is really prominent, and awd not so much?

+woodie McKnight for handling rwd usually is much better and doesnt understear as much. For drag racing awd gets better grip on street legal tires but on the track rwd gets better grip because of increased traction from a prepped track. also depends on how much power you have. on the street. rwd is faster unless you have so much power that traction is a huge issue. then awd becomes faster. bmw 335i is faster than 335xi in a straight line on the street stock.

+woodie McKnight In most sports you want the car to be as light as possible so you have to replace more parts to lightweight material wich might cost more and its harder to change direction unless using the handbrake wich you couldnt in early 4wd systems but also you can put more power to the ground and get better grip if its a sport that takes place on lose surfaces. So i would say rwd for asfalt and 4wd for gravel/snow. altought 4wd can be usefull on asfalt too if you manage to lighten the car enough etc. The most ideal in most motorsports is to have mid engine RWD/ 4WD specially if used on the loose.

+Joe Smith "for handling rwd usually is much better and doesnt understear as much." Depends, some people actually prefer understeer over oversteer as they feel more confident and they find it easier to fix mistakes too should it happen during cornering.

Is that why there hasnt been a rwd rally champion since the early 80's?

Other than handbrake or lifting off the throttle suddenly

What is trailbraking...

+mutilator97 saves ALOT of space. that's basically the only reason. you will have more space in your car with the same length

Goriaas I can only see it adding space to the engine compartment, since engines aren't particularly wide. Since the center console is going to be there anyways, it shouldn't take up any space inside the car itself.

sideways engine means engine bay can be a lot shorter-- hence more usable space in the car

Goriaas The engine bay being shorter has no effect on usable space in the cabin...

mutilator97 yes it does... if two vehicles have the same total length and one has a longer engine bay you will have less usable space(cabin+trunk)

h P whatd tou expect lmao

When you're braking it doesn't matter what the driven wheels are. Most cars are set up to slightly understeer, as it is considered to be safer than oversteer.

Engineering Explained So if im going very fast and go into a corner very fast and turn hard with rwd, its supposed to understeer?

knightrider1545 it ill understeer unless you floor the car, then the back can break loose and risk wrapping your car around a pole.

DevasionX that sucks, you by rwd car to go around corner without understeer but you stiill ge understeer without having part time 4wd , awd or full time/part time front wheel drive...

If you used a pick-up truck for what it was designed for (picking up) it would be very hard to get traction with FWD. If you added significant weight in the bed of the truck you will need RWD to help move everything. If it were FWD drive all the weight would be taken off the front axle and it would be very hard to get the truck to move. I'm sure Jason can explain that a lot better than I can.

JustZona Agreed. But I offer: Many pickups offer transfer cases and other switches to tailor the task, so why not the ability to switch to FWD when unloaded, RWD when loaded, or even an AWD pickup?

That is an outlier.

Not many still drive Corvairs nowadays. Porches tend to be a lot more common, and aren't the roomiest.

Back then FWD systems were incredibly complex (They still are, but for the past it was difficult), RWD was simple because it was the engine, transmission, driveshaft, differential and axles, unlike a FWD that has all the components clustered together under the hood.

ok

PapayaMan put it at .5 speed than

Anguel Gutierrez Depending on the purpose of the car, could go either way.

Engineering Explained I personally think it is better than RWD or AWD if you live in a city, and where it doesn't snow. It is better if you live in a city because FWD cars are usually more fuel-efficient.

Anguel Gutierrez This is an ignorant statement without any supporting evidence. FWD is better for the typical commuter with average weather (no excessive precipitation of any type), while RWD is preferred for a more sporty sensation, and is much more controllable in a race track setting as far as cornering. You cannot control understeer, but you can manipulate oversteer with practice. AWD has its benefits with grip, but to many, isn't as much fun or as rewarding as a RWD performance car.I own a 2012 Hyundai Elantra (fwd) I drive as a daily. It gets wonderful gas mileage, its very comfortable, and is a great car for the money. However, in the snow, its an absolute nightmare. Understeer leaves you helpless. I choose to drive my 2003 BMW 325i (rwd)with the exact same brand and version of all season tires. While the Elantra may have some initial traction advantage, the bmws rear wheel drive feels a bit more controllable when it comes to slight turns, or hairpin turns for that matter. I have yet to be impressed by anything fwd other than the Focus ST. If you dont drive a RWD vehicle like a complete hooligan in the snow, it will do its job.

Caelan Bibby i got an 2002 impala and i cut through snow way better than i did my 1997 ford f150.