How difficult do you think it would be to get from Fwd to Rwd? Options

[dudeofchaos]

I really love my car and plan on keeping it. I don't wanna sell it, never.
It's not something that I plan on doing soon cause I'm broke, but in a few years I will have my real job and I will probably work as a mecanical engineer and I may also have my mecanic's diploma.

I was wondering how difficult it would be to get from Fwd to Rwd? Could I just take the transmition and rear differencial from an Mr2 (which has the same engine which is good!) and I guess probably the cv axles and probably the suspention/steering-related parts like the tie rod ends and stuff and make them fit together and Voila?

I'm not good enoght right now to know what I shall do to do this conversion, but I will eventually go to school after I get my engineer diploma to learn all about mecanics.

(I plan on having a Rwd Celica and a 4wd Gt-Four later. I don't wanna buy a gt-four and convert it to rwd cause this way I would have to buy 2 gt-fours in the end. I'd rather get my Fwd Gts to rwd and then, later, buy a Gt-Four. So please don't tell me to buy a Gt-Four because ''it would be easier to swap'' )

Do you think it would be this ''simple'' or would I need to do a lot more things to get the rear wheels spinning?
I guess a celica would be easier than other cars to convert since there are a lot of bolt-on parts between the celica-mr2-gt4, am I right?

Well, thanks to those who answer me!

This post has been edited by dudeofchaos: Sep 25, 2010 - 5:53 PM

[JuMPiiN]

Simple, no. Anything is possible with money available. Are you saying you want the get the MR2 3s with tranny and diff and axles, and move everythting from the front to the back ? And basically have a trunk in the back ? To be honest Im not sure if the frame could support that. And that would take a insane amount of fab work., and prob enough money to buy a 97 Supra TT. I mean by all means go for it down the road as long as its just a project and not a DD you will finish it eventually. But me personally it wouldnt be worth it. Because every "performance" mod would have to be custom. Just seems like the reward isnt worth the sacrafice if you get what I mean.

[dudeofchaos]

Simple, no. Anything is possible with money available. Are you saying you want the get the MR2 3s with tranny and diff and axles, and move everythting from the front to the back ? And basically have a trunk in the back ? To be honest Im not sure if the frame could support that. And that would take a insane amount of fab work., and prob enough money to buy a 97 Supra TT. I mean by all means go for it down the road as long as its just a project and not a DD you will finish it eventually. But me personally it wouldnt be worth it. Because every "performance" mod would have to be custom. Just seems like the reward isnt worth the sacrafice if you get what I mean.

Why do you say the frame would not support it?