Performance thought, Motor/AWD swap thoughts Options

[Fastbird]

I was sitting around the other day amusing myself by conjuring up things to do to my cars (I swear, if I had a Yugo, I'd look for every possible way to make it faster). And the thought hit me........

Obviously, a 3S-GTE swap into my car. But here's where the "unique" part comes in. Take a GT4 or Alltrac rear, and instead of doing the AWD conversion, install the rear and disconnect the front half-shafts, creating a RWD Celica.

I've seen this done MANY times on the early 90's GMC Syclone and Typhoon trucks. Granted, those are on a RWD platform, but essentially the same rule applies. Disconnect the front half shafts, all power/tq gets transferred to the rear wheels.

So..........What are the odds of this actually working in a 6GC. I guess it's about as close to a baby supra as you can get, but I thought it would make a great unique-factor for my car.

Long time off though. Motor swap for me won't happen until late this year at the earliest.

[Dr_Tweak]

Yes, that was a 5th gen all-trac, so it was already AWD. Making it RWD wasn't that big of a deal. It's a twin turbo 1UZFE, by the way.

-Doc

This post has been edited by Dr_Tweak: Jan 15, 2006 - 12:11 AM