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.

[Illyont]

Got another answer from Toyota Norway today. But they still haven't really answered my question. They just talk around it. I'm guessing they have something to hide. (like maybe the chassis are all the same?)

Their last reply was something like this:

"..those that we know of that had used the 3S-GTE engine have started out with a scrapped GT-4 chassis and built the entire car up from that.."

"..if you are gonna rebuid a AT200 with the GT-4 engine, you will most likely pay twice the cost of just buying a GT-4 in the first place.."

They never answered if I could use the original AT200 chassis to build a GT-4 though.. And I have told them several times to NOT look at brakes, springs, dampers, exhaust, intake etc. but just care about if the chassis will hold or not. They obviusly don't want to answer that.

Time to contact Toyota USA or even Toyota Japan I guess. Anyone have their contact information?