engine in the rear Options

[mneal2_92788]

has anyone ever thought of putting an engine in the rear? it would make our 6th gen a RWD, and i personally think it would be awesome! if this has been talked of b4, sorry. i tried a search and of the 52 pages, i didnt see anything.
i thought about buying another 6g, and try this. the hardest part would prolly be the tranny controls, and a new firewall.

[daazndood]

seems like too much. i dont now how this would compare to doing an awd conversion and just making that rwd

[MaskedMan]

I think they did this before. iirc they called it an MR2.

[808celica]

I think they did this before. iirc they called it an MR2.

it would be cool though. maybe get an mr2 and drop the 6gc body on it.

[purplegt4]

http://www.team-integra.net/forum/display_...;TopicID=106670

[azian_advanced]

call me crazy but i remember years ago (maybe around the year 2000) that i was looking up some celica pictures back when i still had my 4th gen, and i came across this one white 6th gen show car (can't remember whether it was a hatch or coupe, more likely a hatch tho) that was heavily modified with an engine in the rear (MR style).
i don't remember if it was an english or asian webpage but i saw it...

[playr158]

VW did it with the new MKV GTI...W12 motor it was sick.

putting the motor in the back is probably more difficulty (it is) than the route i'm going to go...

supra tranny ftw

[goferris]

the only thing that comes to mind when i read this was the tiburon with 2 motors. personally i think i would be cool but not worth it. your best bet would be to do the AWD and then make it a FR car. there is a st185 that it has been done to and it was pretty sweet. there is a youtube of it doing donuts and burn outs.

[dtlwrc]

This is the most crazy thing i have ever heard about our car!
But it would be nice, a RWD car always offers you an exciting driving!!!
Keep us informed...

[coldbluesteel]

I had seen a monster golf with twin engine awd turbo setup, it was pretty crazy.

If you want RWD, just drop in a LS1 with a 6 speed and a custom rear end. That was my plan... not as hard as you would think. LS1's get dropped into lots of cars using a painless wiring setup. Then you would have 1 light, powerful, easy to build motor instead of the 2 heavy frankenstein setup.


If you really want to try this you should buy mine and I can hook you up with the shop that was going to do the work for me.

[808celica]

haha AWD. one motor and tranny in the front and another one in the back :rofl:

This post has been edited by 808celica: Sep 11, 2007 - 4:39 AM

[DeathWing]

i think rwd has been done and posible but moving the engine on the rear? i dont think the structure will hold, it would need serious mods

[95CelicaST]

I believe Dr. Tweak was offering this set up for something like 16K out the door. MR Celica with a 3S-GTE.

[frosty]

call me crazy but i remember years ago (maybe around the year 2000) that i was looking up some celica pictures back when i still had my 4th gen, and i came across this one white 6th gen show car (can't remember whether it was a hatch or coupe, more likely a hatch tho) that was heavily modified with an engine in the rear (MR style).
i don't remember if it was an english or asian webpage but i saw it...

I DO remember this. (it was an english webpage)

I'm trying to find that page now (if it's still up) but I remember it looked kinda stupid because they didn't have the motor recessed far enough and you could see the motor through the back glass while standing @ least 5-6ft. away from it.

Not knocking the idea though. I would be neat to see one perfected though.