Do you remember Race Rally Research’s specially modified Proton Waja FR? It was fitted with a Nissan turbocharged engine with a rear wheel drive configuration. The result was a Proton Waja that was rear wheel driven, and could really smoke up the drift track. Thanks to local motorsports enthusiast ingenuity, we now have a rear wheel drive Proton Satria as well, powered by a 2.0 litre turbocharged VR4 engine. From speculation, it was likely achieved via fitting the VR4′s 4WD drivetrain to the vehicle and locking the gearbox to send power to the rear wheels only.
Video after the jump.
Video: Rear wheel drive Proton Satria VR4 FR
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I'm guessing its the 4G63T engine from the E38A/39A 6th Generation Galant VR4?
Due to the movie "Tokyo Drift" and "Initial D" ….kaki motor now crazy about rear wheel drive
how bout changing the rear wheeler to front wheeler?
joking, haha…
I think the motor pass by will scared about this SATRIA….
drift at the center of the junction……
Actually the VR4 engine is the same with the evo's 4g63T is 2.0L turbo engine, but is detune for road used in galant. Delivering 240hp on engine itself. Normally tuners will take the engine, take the evo 3 ECU, wiring and mix it. Some of them will use the mivec LSD full-lock gearbox to convert to 2wd. Or changing the turbo to garett ballbearing turbo. This engine can reach 300-400 hp easily with just changing the turbo itself.
Actually this car is illegal on the road, JPJ will not approve any car changing its driving position. Even a 4g93T GSR transplant can only lock the rear wheel for front whell drive. If JPJ officer found that this car is on the road driving sure will be confiscated. Coz in their rules, Front wheel drive only for front wheel drive, except your car is 4X4 then u can do rear drive. Even your car is rear drive only, you cant even modified to 4X4… Louzy JPJ… But i like more to the modified N/A Toyota levin AE86 drivin by tenku dejan 1..
Satria FR? Nice!!!! How about Perdana FR and Juara FR? haha~
Its good to see the Satria making some drift.
In the movie F&F Tokyo Drift, the red Evo also FR, but 4WD can drift pretty well if the driver know the right way to control the car……
Seen one made in perdana last year i think, from what i heard, they actually made it an all wheel drive perdana in the first place then they decided to made to FR by pulling out the front drive shaft(actually more than that that, involving locking the gearbox etc etc). They do not massively alter the engine position like what R3 did on the waja, it still retain the horizontal position, only modified the gearbox to make it FR.
its nuts anyway…and wen it comes to jpj , anyting is possible…but this is another story la!
mitlanevo: juara is already FR
coolness!!!
mitlanevo: perdana fr also already done by malaysian modders.. now got plenty
Booooooooooooooooooorrriiingg……..i mean not enough power….it need more…then more smoke….coooooooooooooool..;)
This guys so rich to do tuning!
very good experiment….
Probably not road legal, but it's a good mod.
light rear with huge power, i really for fun
but for road its dangerous, in a wrong hand
I wont give a single compliment to Proton for their efforts. They have spend too much, just way too much on so called research and take overs. Why havent we seen anything competitive or NEW yet? most of their products and finishing is a spin-off of other makes. I really feel Proton will wake up soon. They may monopolize their local mkt, but when the it opens to free competition, it'll be royally screwed unless they buck up. Wake Up Proton, PLEASE!!!!
MrScuderria
I however, would prefer Proton to spin off other's products, rather than having the urge to produce something solely on their own for the sake of "Kebanggaan Malaysia" which in turn, came something boring and badly built.
I really do hope VAG to buy over Proton, pass on the B5, C5 platform revamp Proton's product range once and for all, rather than having weird/stupid Animal or Monarchy rank names, they should've create new names from successful models and keep launching new variants to keep up with the product portfolio, such as Satria, they could've obtain the VAG Golf MK4 platform and launch it as the next model after Satria Neo, Passat platform as the next mid range sedan replacing Waja, and the Audi A6 C5 (98-03) model to replace Perdana as the flagship competing with Sonata and such (Camry is well out of range, should not compete head on).
OR,
Just launch turbo charged versions of all models available, then with a top of tha range, RWD, Turbo charged. Create cheap, powerful, unrefine, low maintenance and reliable (not durable, but reliable – NOT BREAKING DOWN) cars. Don't dig their nose deep into ground and hope to launch something that would trump BMW 3 series, just make cars reminiscent of Jap makes of the 80s, powerful, cheap, anorexic, light weight, fun and cheap cars.
Malaysian Multi Purpose modification FF to FR, GOOD IDEA!!!
Then convert Proton Arena to RR. Make the engine uncovered like veyron
oic….
i always thought juara is FF instead of FR.
thanks for that info anyway, haha…..
I've seen 1 perdana drifting, but that is on TV.
what ever crap the proton, this ageing satria looks batter on its original proton grill ,bumper and spoiler, colt bonnet and bumper too plain,
oic… Satria with VR4?
had heard Perdana and Waja's with VR4 before… even the discontinued Putra with 4WD VR4… Cool ! (in a weekend drift club around JB)
they play around with those modified Nissan Cefiro with RB engine series…
u can find the owner (wanbra_garage) and the original thread discussing about the machine here —> http://www.angle-d5.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=112…
and also here
http://www.angle-d5.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=106…
this is the latest video where he did "rodeo" drift with his satria fr in jebat drift, melaka. he was the event's mc..
http://www.angle-d5.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=132…