From fwd to awd, is it possible? Options

[goferris]

I have read somewhere that it isn't possible to change a american celica into an awd gtfour type of set up. Is that True? I am new to the forum and not sure if this has allready been touched on earlier but that is one of my dreams to have. living in the states i doubt i will ever have the chance to ever own a real one. Does anyone know for sure?
thanks for the info

[94GT]

There's a guy in Cyprus (I think) on this board who did it the right way. The mega difference is that the fuel tank on our American car is right where the rear diff needs to go. And there's nothing to bolt it onto even if you remove the tank and put a fuel cell in the trunk instead. What he did was had the rear lower pan cut off and welded one from a GT 4 in so that he could use a GT-4 fuel tank and everything would bolt up correctly. If you don't do it this way you've got to do some custom fabricating back there to be able to bolt it up and then scrap your fuel tank and put a cell in the trunk. For all that work you'd probably be better off buying a street legal all-trac...

[alltracman78]

The mega difference is that the fuel tank on our American car is right where the rear diff needs to go.

I believe your gas tank is actually where the propeller shaft needs to go....
Which is under the rear seats.

Your trunk bottom is in the way of the diff. This is why STxx5 have a shallower trunk than the FWD Celicas they share generations with.
In the STxx5 the tank is after the rear diff, right in front of the rear bumper.