99-mod Celica ST chassis vs GT/GT4 chassis Options

[Illyont]

Hello!

Overseas in cold Norway we have a bunch of stupid laws. One of them is:

You can never add more than 15% horsepower above stock for your model car. If you do, no more street legal.

Anyway, I was talking to them today and I got them to agree on this:

If I could get a written statement from Toyota that the chassis on a regular ST (AT200) would be able to hold x amounts of whp. They could register the car as a street vehicle. So I drove to Toyota and asked them. They didn't know....

If anyone should know, it have to be someone on this board. I know it's a pretty long shot, but I have to ask. If the chassie turn out to be totally different then OK, but if they are the same, or atleast if the ST chassie can withstand lets say. 300 whp from a tuned up 3S-GTE then wow, great.

I will probably get like 20 replies saying:

I have a 94-99 Celica ST with 3S-GTE swap and my car is doing just fine. That just doesn't cut it. I need to get the statement from Toyota, but before attacking them I need some cold hard facts first.

[nik]

http://www.poweredbytoyota.com/ssfeturbo.html

this is a link talking about the buriun turbo kit that can go into a 90-99 toyota celica
doesnt refrence the chasis but is for the 5sfe but the chasis pretty much the same to the at200

[Illyont]

http://www.poweredbytoyota.com/ssfeturbo.html

this is a link talking about the buriun turbo kit that can go into a 90-99 toyota celica
doesnt refrence the chasis but is for the 5sfe but the chasis pretty much the same to the at200
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Well, that kit is almost the same as your own custom kit, and put 190 crank hp into the car. So the chasis(spelling?) issue wouldn't have come up with this kit anyway. Because it's almost inside the 15% value (don't ask me why, but the guy said ok to 180 hp. 116+15% isn't 180 but what the heck, I don't complain).

The chasis issue comes on field when you go above that 15% value. Say 190, 200 or even more.

Thanks for the answer though.