if the 4wd light is on, then you are in rwd mode, does that mean that because the front driveshaft is still in that you are doing damage to the clutch packs?
there was turbo RWD variants
25t RS V Wagon FR AT Gasoline 2498 RB25DET GF-WGC34
they just werent available in manual, and were not released until August 1998...AKA series 2