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The reason I ask is because my friend was thinking of converting his Celi to RWD.

no

I should say a bit more

read this thread
http://www.6gc.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=25793

yeah rwd would be even harder than awd, because you would have to actually custom fabricate a whole new engine support system, wireing harness, rear differential and a mounting area for it, rear and front suspension, and not to mention things like power steering, shift cables, and etc... the easiest way i can think of would be to get a full drivetran and core supprot of both motor/tranny and rear diff. from an AE86 and use that, thats the only car i can think o that has a 3sgte in a rwd setup, or well i should say i know of that has been done by an individual, i know supras have had 3sgte's with rwd trannys in jgtc, but that doesn't count cuz they have custom trannys anyways, i don't know what teanny the ae86 3sgte swappers use but i do know that it exsist

but either way, rwd or awd, it would be very time and money consuming. but would def be something pretty unique when its done. thats why i plan on doing it.

so to conclude this post i think you should not do it, otr tell your friend he should not do it, because of the time and money involved and the fact i want to be the first in the states to do it

Give me a PM I have a ton of info, i'm working on the RWD swap and have a majority of the parts picked out (money is the only thing stopping me now), first off i'm using a number of Supra parts so it's going to run me about $20,000 doing the labor myself, but i'm rebuilding the 3SGTE. As far as the JGTC or Super GT Supras with the 3SGTE, a lot of them use the factory Getrag mainly because it's been able to handle up to 1,200 hp stock, the only reason they would consider switching it is for a different gear ratio, BTW a Getrag from Toyota will run a nice $6,000 without the spacers, snap rings and other goodies to make it work.

No they don't have the same chassy ? I disagree, engine mounts are different for ST and GT but the body itself is the same for a ST and GT, pretty sure of this . .

Dr.

Thanks for the replys. If it were myself, RWD wouldn't be an option but my friend has a good payin job & friends that are crazy enough to try.

Sounds like he has the key req. for the task. best of luck if he tries it.

anyway I think that the gt and gt-4 have the same chassy just somewhat diff, (drive shaft holes and some mounts) I dont think that it would be to hard, but AWD is (in my opinion) far better and probibly much easyer to convert too.

This post has been edited by creis: Jul 3, 2005 - 9:48 AM

Engine mounts are different but the frames are the same, the st even has places pre-marked for the gt mount. I would bet that the GT has the same thing for the ST mount. The GT-4 is not the same as the st, or gt. It is a beefier frame.

I hate these posts

The only reason it would be beefier is seam welding, which from what I can tell is actually done on the GT, I don't know about the ST.