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

[RUNNIN-LOW]

Sorry to tell u this but no u won't have thw first rwd 6th gen it has been dun before. I am also currently doing my own with the alteza 3sge black top for my high performance grad project.

yes what hatchy is planning on doing is correct.

if i wasnt planning on selling my car i would have done the same thing...the I.S. beams motor with tranny and using the gt4 rear diff.
the only difficult part would be deciding which steering rack to use...im not totally sure but i think the I.S. one would work but it will require some custom work. motor mounts for the motor would have to be custom, and the drive shaft would need to be custom and then the firewall would need to be cut. unless you use a tube front frame. (HARDTARGET has done this before but he used a tube front end and im not tottaly sure but his was made for track use.)