i have spent a few hours rebuilding my dogbox, changing gear ratios, fixing other oem five speeds. I have noticed that there are chambers to catch solid particles, passages to allow oil to flow a certian way, and i think the main "pump"is the front diff ring gear. it spins and flings oil back and you can trace the flow around the trans, to the transfer case, up , over, forward, down and back again. i wonder if i went to rwd for drag racing and removed the front diff, would i need to think about a change in the flow of oil?

I was going to block off the front diff output holes, and maby fill the void left by the front diff with something light so i would not need a lot of oil to get level back to norm. maby a ballon of some sort. playground kick ball? better than 10lbs of oil.
would parts still get enough fresh oil to keep cool, like the rear shaft bearing (bushing) that goes to driveshaft?

I know this will get flamed for being in the wrong forum, but i think drag racers have good opinions. some one in aus has gone rwd for drag'n and i can't find the post. anybody know someone without a front diff?

Yep, wrong forum.

most people in the trans forum are just talking about silly stuff, how do i launch? what is that noise?, my trany is broken, boo hoo. I was looking for some fart smellers, i mean smart fellas.

I know you want to do the RWD thing and I would like to see how it works out of curiosity. The only problem I see at this time though is you are going to the East Coast Sube shootout and on there rules they state AWD must be functional if the car came with it. Only 2WD cars allowed would be FWD Subes that came stock FWD.

Just bringin it up as I wanna see you car compete and not get banned for something stupid like that:huh:

i know, i have spoken with the bros at h&l subaru and with matt. i will be in 4wd there. i want to win, so sorry to take the wind out of your sails.