Yes, I pulled the ABS fuse. Why?
I'm no longer in fear of the car deciding to do somethig on my behalf that I don't want it to do.
I've never owned a car with so many driving aids, and this would be one of the least powerful cars with with the most mechanical grip I've owned.
I used to always feel my car do weird things. After reading up on all the querks it has; namely ebd, auto lsd, ice mode. It's assumed pedal dance turns most of these off but no one seems to know for sure. It's all bullshit in the most part. I have traction control, the accelerator. I have ABS/EBD/stability, the brakes and the steering wheel.
My car brakes much harder now. I have bigger brakes and good street tyres or semi slicks. Where as before it would engage abs, now I can break much harder. Obvioulsy it will get to a point now where it will lock up, but let me tell you it's well beyond the point where abs used to jump in.
When I have skidders on, and go drifting, the car is better. Where as before with the aids off/pedal dance, it would still get involved if you reached big angle or did a quick switch, it doesn't now.
On canyon/hills, it's also much better. Coming out of corners, where one wheel might unload, it used to apply the brake to the inside rear tyre. I believe this is its auto LSD. I don't need this, I have a 2way. Car seems to fire out of corners in these situations now.
Commuting to and from work, this is where I'd like to have the aids on. This is when I'm probably paying the least attention, on the phone, kid might run out etc. what id like to do is get a switch made up that just activates or deactivates this abs fuse.
In short I feel much safer driving the car aggressively without any aids. It now reacts how you would expect it to.
If you've owned a turbo silvia or another lightweight rwd car that didn't have aids, you'll enjoy your 86 much more with this fuse pulled.
If you're reading this thinking I'm a mad ****; and you feel you need the aids to enjoy the car, that's fine. I feel a little bad for you though.
I'm actually all for these types of aids if its what they need to put in a good car to make it safe for some. As long as they're easily disabled, which in this case I am only certain of when pulling the fuse.