FWD highway dominance- Fact or Fiction? Options

[KOU In3]

OK, it's come up indirectly a number of times but am I the only one that questions this whole FWD highway ownership thing? It seems like it's become an accepted fact that the FWD's are 50% faster from a roll.

Yes, the AWD weigh 400 or so pounds more.

Yes, there is an AWD drivetrain loss.

BUT, turning the AWD components only saps power to a point. I'm not sure I buy into the hype of 400 flywheel HP turning into 300whp as compared to it only losing half that amount in a FWD.

At stock turbo power levels yes, I can see the difference there but when you start really modding things I'm less certain.

This is when I'm waiting to hear the FFF cars (factory freak FWD cars chime in) with some arguements.

*Beware, the "Marucs at 12.6" arguement I plan on countering with though. *

[natedogg]

Note 2:  Josh's 16g never ran worth a sh!+.  His well prepaired 14b ran 13.4's  while his POS 16g with N2O could only muster a best of 13.8's.  So his particular 16g may not have been the best to compare to.

Quite true. But I think part of the reason for that is, every time we got the damn thing tuned in he'd turn the nitrous on and start messing with the SAFC again, henceforth de-tuning it. I'd have liked to see what he would have run after we had a good tune on it w/o the damn nitrous.

EDIT: The other part is he had a Hughified 16g.