Hey, I just saw a picture of a FB from the 85 Olympus Rally (?) driven by Rod Milen and Dale Kraushaar (?) and supposedly it was 4wd...

Is this true? and does anyone have any technical information regarding this car (especially how they set up the differential to run the front wheels) or know where I could find some? I'm really curious as to how the car was built (again, especially the driveline). Thanks ahead of time!

 

Modified 626 front struts. Fully custom built.

-billy

 

when we were looking through the transtar catalog, it said that there is a 4wd model of the transmission used in rx7s. i'll have to look into it again, but that sounds interesting to me .

 

wow, someone actually makes something like that? I assumed it was a custom thing... I'm mainly just interested how the transmission and front differential was built... (saw an exploded view of a Subie STi tranny yesterday and it made me wonder how mazda or whoever built their's...)

 

This thread has some photos of the set up

 

Rod used a special transfer case, find a copy of "mazda motorsports" book that is out of print there is a good little bit of info on it. rod made several of these cars through the years the all ran P-port engines.

 

thanks j_tso, that was pretty much what i was looking for... the second picture in that thread. cool beans