TheMadMidget
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As long as your not a moron about it and don't go flooring it, it won't jump the jacks.
Make sure the E-brake's on.
I've done it with my dad's legacy 5 speed. It was to prove a point to myself in reference to a thread saying that the AWD car's would get stuck if they had one wheel in the air (they will if your on a hard hill)
you don't seem to belive what multiple people have written here, why believe what one person wrote in a manual?
It was written by thousands of Japs that designed and built the car.
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I don't see anything electronic about that 5MT.
http://www.subaru.com/shop/specifications.jsp?model=BAJA&trim=SPORT&command=features
I don't see anything about it being soley mechanical. Lookup the automatic, none of it talks about the transmission computer.
Lack of information there chief.
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Take a permanent marker, go out to the car, and change the lable for the FWD fuse to RWD. Presto! the car is now a RWD car if you put the fuse in.
At least it should be in your imagination.
Jack up the front wheels, put the E-brake on hard. Leave the FWD fuse out and make the engine turn the front wheels.
Now, put the FWD fuse in and repeat, it will behave the same.
It's a limited slip diff in the middle, so the wheels with the least traction, the one's in the air, will spin, and the back one's won't move. That's normal.
Watch "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", man that's don't a good thing to try, especially since it would jump the jacks and really mess stuff up.
BTW, the manual says it works in FWD.
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Yeah, I've got a 5-spd. Try it, it works.
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You aren't over riding anything. The fuse box is probably common to auto's and manuals, hence the spot for FWD.
Go whip some nuts in the dirt. then put the FWD fuse in and do it again. It will whip nuts exactly the same.
I've lifted the car and the front and only the front, both tires, spin. It feels totally different and I can chirp the fronts, they wouldn't spin on blacktop but did in the dirt, left two holes at the front tires.
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Yeah there is a computer
NOT FOR THE TRANNY THERE ISN'T
It's like talking to a brick wall!
How can I override it then, cuz it works.
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Yeah there is a computer and a there is a spot it the fuse box to override it to FWD.
BTW, I already have a '91 and '98 vette.
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I am really almost certain, there is no possible way to make the computer, on a manual car, RWD. The center diff is mechanical, and your tranny is mechanical. There is nothing electric about it, except the sensors and whatnot.
Again, I do not believe you can even make it FWD.
The AWD cannot be all mechanical, the logics of it doesn't work. Anyhow, you can out what I have said. Open up the fuse box and look at the diagram, it still has a spot called FWD, pop a fuse in their and test drive it. I did it and lift it to make sure it was just leading with the front like STIs can.
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I came from having a RWD car and like how it drives, I probably don't have enough HP for burnouts. If I can just get the computer to make it RWD instead of FWD I'll have the equivalent to RWD with LSD.
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Either '07 or '08. Right now they have their older version of AWD in some of the Escapes but soon or possibly the new models now will have the same AWD as the Subarus
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What about the Ford Escape? the Edge? The Freestar? the Freestyle?
:) 
I said trucks.
F.Y.I. the Escape will have AWD soon.
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But the axles aren't receiving any more torque or load, the physics of them are not changing
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Last I heard Ford made a 150 with rear wheel drive already!
All Ford trucks are RWD
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I just really like RWD, beside my truck is pretty close to 50/50 so it's going to hold.
About the strength, I have the sport, not the turbo, and they have the same parts so I should be fine.
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welding the front differential would only give me really bad awd and mess everything up.
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In the manual it says the jumper is only for automatics, but it still works on sticks, atleast mine.
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I figure if there is a jumper for FWD, why not RWD.
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What about a computer change?
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I have a 2006 Baja stick and want to change it to RWD. Any ideas?
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I've brought my car in four times in the first six months for repairs on a brand new Baja. The fourth time was the worst, my first and second gear broke free and I drove to the dealership in third gear, and it was in for the transmission three days prior. Atleast warranty covered it.
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in 1990 to Present Legacy, Impreza, Outback, Forester, Baja, WRX&WrxSTI, SVX
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Thanks for the advice, all I know is that right now I have a FWD Baja with no real modding, if anyone was any POSITIVE advice on how to do a computer change to RWD please Reply, otherwise, don't bother my time.