had an idea... shoot it down please

I made the mistake of going to watch a NASCAR/Whelen sanctioned Pure Stock oval race at South Boston Speedway last night, and after seeing the field and how close it was over the course of the race, and the fact that japanese cars were allowed, along with a quick browse through the rules for that class, I'm intrigued. the rules dictate that the cars must be FWD or RWD only, no mid engine, no AWD. my inquisitive side is reading that as saying "as the car races, the engine has to be at the front, and only one pair of wheels may be driven", giving rise to the possibility of getting an AWD car, pulling the front half-shafts and maybe the then-unnecessary driveline bits going to the front wheels, and locking up the center diff to get all the power to the rear wheels. someone please tell me that this half-cooked and probably mildly uncompetitive idea I pulled out of thin air is illegal, as per the rules, so that I'm not "forced" to pursue it further by looking for pre-'00 Imprezas and Legacys that have hit rock bottom on the depreciation curve

It's half baked and probably against the rules. It'll be too heavy and not competitive. It'll be fun though so do it.

As if anyone on here will say no.

Did you find a car yet? What's taking so long.

legal? No idea...it sounds like fun, though.

Isn't the Subaru RWD thing done somewhere for some reason? Drifting, maybe? I think it would be a fine idea. Get the rule book and read it carefully, remembering that stock car guys traditionally write rules to define what you can NOT do, so if it doesn't say specifically that you cannot disable the front wheels to create a rear drive car, you can.

Although I might go talk to the tech guys before I spent too much money.

PS: You can make a front wheel drive car very fast on an oval. Around here, our fast ministocks (Neon, Civic etc) would qualify in the top half of our V8 streetstock fields.

http://www.southbostonspeedway.com/rules/pure_stock.htm
those are the rules for Pure Stock at South Boston Speedway, and a quick read over those rules doesn't say anything about AWD-to-RWD conversions to make a car legal to race, although there is also no mention of update/backdate restrictions, so throwing the suspension off of a more stiffly-sprung car and the AWD onto an el-cheapo FWD subie

if your going to be doing that, I'd go for the suby coupe's, they're the lightest, and can be made pretty fast.

Most cas in that class have track rules. check with the tracks tech inspector.

Some guys have tried the Subaru RWD thing. There is one big problem. The Subies will handle all of the power going through the Front Wheels, but typically the rear diff will not handle all of the power. The rear diffs are simply not made to take 100% of the engine power.

You are looking at a rear diff upgrade to do it.

after all that work, you'd have a rwd car that weighs more than the other rwd cars in the field..