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post Oct 12, 2012 - 12:10 PM
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Hello everyone, I'm new here. I wanted to share a project that I plan on doing. I know many of you will find it impractical and a waste of money to convert a FWD to a RWD, but I want to do something that is rarely done because I think that's the beauty in doing a project like this. I wanted a modern looking Toyota in the first place that fits the category of light weight, hardtop coupe. I just bought a 1997 Celica ST coupe. So here's what made me decide to do this project on this particular car that will be strictly for track use.

1) It's a coupe. RWD in a coupe body just seems right! And the extra structural integrity and lightness of it is a plus.
2) It has a drive shaft tunnel from the GT-Four, so with little modifications to the rear floor pan, this can be done.
3) It's the most recent generation of Celicas that has the coupe body style that doesn't have pop-up headlights. Nothing against pop-up headlights, but for my application I want to make the car as simple as possible.
4) Sleek body and long hood. Styling cues from the Supra and Lexus SC/Soarer, both of which are RWD.

So a few engines I had in mind are the 4AGE, 22R, and 3SGE.
I was leaning towards the BEAMS 3SGE blacktop because it powered the RS200 in a longitudinal setup. And it's such a beast of an engine.

Any thoughts, comments, suggestions welcome. Keep it friendly please smile.gif

Posts in this topic
- gcon22   RWD coupe   Oct 12, 2012 - 12:10 PM
- - kurt95gt   Can't say I'm all for this but I could be ...   Oct 12, 2012 - 12:21 PM
- - Stambo   sounds fun, but making a fwd car into rwd just kin...   Oct 12, 2012 - 1:08 PM
- - richee3   Since you know that 6gc as a whole isn't find ...   Oct 12, 2012 - 1:18 PM
- - mkernz22   I thought the coupe was a lot different in terms o...   Oct 13, 2012 - 10:34 PM
|- - gcon22   QUOTE (mkernz22 @ Oct 13, 2012 - 10...   Oct 14, 2012 - 7:23 PM
- - njccmd2002   RE: RWD coupe   Oct 14, 2012 - 6:18 AM
- - RobStar86   I'm doing the same thing to the most recent bo...   Oct 14, 2012 - 9:56 AM


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