Disabling ABS

[Flat4]

Want to know how to disable the ABS for track use and for gymkhanas but google isn\'t giving me a straight up answer as to what fuse or fuses need to be pulled. Can anyone give me a heads up so I can go and do some J turns?

Car is a 1997 Legacy GTB

Cheers

[loner]

From memory you can pull the relays in the ABS unit itself.

[Guest]

I was researching this last week. I believe there is a fuse in the box to the right of the steering wheel and one of them is abs well it is in GC/GF8. Yet to try it.

[Flat4]

No luck identifying any ABS fuses in the engine bay fuse box, but here is a diagram for the under dash one:

Should removing F18 and F19 do the trick or is there more to it?

[loner]

Just pull the relay from the ABS unit in the engine bay. I used to do it for events as have others.

[Guest]

 loner said:

Just pull the relay from the ABS unit in the engine bay. I used to do it for events as have others.

How different is it as opposed to with?

[loner]

 evowrx']

[quote name='loner said:

Just pull the relay from the ABS unit in the engine bay. I used to do it for events as have others.

/quote]

How different is it as opposed to with?

Pretty different, with ABS I tended to over brake... i.e brake too late and too hard then lose all momentum.

Brake pads would disappear pretty quick as a result. With ABS the pedal would go solid round fast corners

when the wheels were slipping... I guess it was trying to prevent more of a slide, but I didn\'t like it.

[Flat4]

I didn\'t know which relay under the hood was the ABS one so I just whipped the two ABS fuses out from the fuse box under the dash. One of them took out the power steering as well so put that back in and all sorted. lol

[Guest]

 loner said:

Just pull the relay from the ABS unit in the engine bay. I used to do it for events as have others.

Where is said relay? Didnt look really hard last night but if its in my engine bay fuse box its in ningnang.

[Roo]

Does the warning light stay on?

I get the abs light glaring 30 seconds after a skid and stays on till I turn the car off then on and drive 100m or so

[Guest]

 Roo said:

Does the warning light stay on?

I get the abs light glaring 30 seconds after a skid and stays on till I turn the car off then on and drive 100m or so

Im sure you know how to wire the CEL to the ABS by now to make it completely legit for WOF purposes.

[loner]

 evowrx']

[quote name='loner said:

Just pull the relay from the ABS unit in the engine bay. I used to do it for events as have others.

/quote]

Where is said relay? Didnt look really hard last night but if its in my engine bay fuse box its in ningnang.

They are in the ABS actuator unit.

[Guest]

 loner']

[quote name='loner said:

Just pull the relay from the ABS unit in the engine bay. I used to do it for events as have others.

/quote]

Where is said relay? Didnt look really hard last night but if its in my engine bay fuse box its in ningnang.

They are in the ABS actuator unit.

In the pump unit thingy behind drivers headlight?

[loner]

 evowrx']

[quote name='loner said:

Just pull the relay from the ABS unit in the engine bay. I used to do it for events as have others.

/quote]

Where is said relay? Didnt look really hard last night but if its in my engine bay fuse box its in ningnang.

They are in the ABS actuator unit.

In the pump unit thingy behind drivers headlight?

pretty sure...

[Joker]

Sometimes : just sometimes ; its a good idea to leave it on and get used to how it works, just in case you need it IRL

[Flat4]

 JoKer said:

Sometimes : just sometimes ; its a good idea to leave it on and get used to how it works, just in case you need it IRL

But threshold braking is way more fun on the track