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Wow, you really need to just start searching. All the questions that you could possibly have has been answered before NUMEROUS times. Please just do some searching on your own first before asking simple questions like this. YES, a 5th gen 3sgte would work, it's a common motor to use for the swap. A LOT of people on this forum has done it before.

cheaper and more available

all this depends on if your in canada or the US. IF your in Canada, you can legaly import one from any where in the world startin in Sept 2009 or so. There are LHD GT4s that are in europe, but they are hard to come by compaired to buyin one from Japan or the UK. As for the US, i think that if you buy one with the interior stripped down, and ship the body, interior and motor seperately, you could put it back together as a kit car like the other people have said. But as for Canada, only way to do it is wait another almost 2 years b4 u can bring one in.

Your best bet though for the $ is just keep FWD, buy a half clip from a used JDM engine place with the body parts, swap the 3S in and do the front end conversion. There are a few true GT4s in the states, there was one that was just sold for $20K for a 95 form one of our Ohio members. But there are a few other conversions out there that are full GT4 conversions *4wd and all* that have gone for any where between 11K-22K.

But as for the true thing gettin imported, your probably gonna be spending between $11-20K for a GT4 imported from Japan. My friend runs an importing company out of Toronto and he brings R32 Skylines, S13s, MR2s, 300ZX's etc in from japan, and he usually gets between 6-9K for a 5th Gen All-Trac, and 8-12K for a 5th Gen All-Trac RC. He said the average price, just for the car, not including the importing fee's is around 8-13K

whoever found out about the canada motors. I love you. I was starting to get frustrated. This way is soooo much easier. cheap too

hi m8 im in the UK i have at202 celica which is now converted to 3SGTE engine out of a ST205 if you need any help drop me a line m8 ill be happy to help you as best i can

By the way, I live in Japan, and I know of some low-mileage GT4s for sale here. One is white, with 11,000 kilometers (less than 7,000 miles) on it, priced at 2.08 million yen (over $20,000). In the pictures, at least, it looks showroom fresh and completely stock. Of course, there are some high-milers with still-valid inspection certification and insurance (with 3 months or more remaining, they can be legally exported) in the $4,000 range. And yes, all right-hand drive.

The good ones at least can actually be found at any time on the Car Sensor Web site, which I can navigate, because I can read Japanese. It has pictures of the cars and detailed information on them. It lists the cars in price order, sorted according the search parameters you input. Posting a link here wouldn't be helpful, because the information changes daily.