5sgte rwd conversion Options

[toy8490]

This 4 cylinder that i'm building will be lighter than a 6 cylinder. And i'm building a 5sgte, I plan on making 400-500hp with this engine.

[richee3]

Very cool stuff. Will this be a DD, track car, drag car?

[Box]

Very cool stuff. Will this be a DD, track car, drag car?

Judging by the fatties on the rear, drag.

If you're going through all that effort, why stick with the 4-Cyl,. my future RWD project is hoping to be a Straight Six, or a full V8, not that I won't be watching like crazy to see how yours turns out!

Keep the pics coming, I'm super excited to see this.

Well, the I4 is the most compact package. I6 is too long, and most V8's are too wide. If you want to go with one of those engines there are better cars to do it with, all of them already RWD.

[toy8490]

Very cool stuff. Will this be a DD, track car, drag car?

This car will be DD and drag racing.

When it was FWD, I drove it as DD and also drag raced it.

My fastest 1/4 mile time was 12.91 sec




This post has been edited by toy8490: Apr 18, 2014 - 2:06 PM

[toy8490]

Heres some more pictures, with the engine all cleared of the firewall.

I'm going to keep the engine tilted, as how it was like when it was in the fwd version.









Here is the transmission mounted up. You can see that the transmission is tilted also, but not to bad of a angle, I'll probly end up over filling the transmission a little so that the oil gets to all places needed.

I used a 1986 toyota pickup 2wd transmission mount bracket, Its in front of the Angle iron.




This post has been edited by toy8490: Apr 18, 2014 - 2:03 PM

[CrossCudi]

AWESOME !

[Box]

I wonder how such a severe tilt will effect things now that it'll be longitudinal instead of transverse. Seems like you're making good progress fairly quickly. Someone needs to standardize a 5GC/6GC RWD conversion kit.

This post has been edited by Box: Apr 18, 2014 - 3:32 PM

[SupraKid]

*Thinks dirty, dirty 2jzgte thoughts*

[toy8490]

Heres some pictures of the rear suspension
The suspension isn't done yet, its put together enough so that its rollable,
I still have to have bracing done on the link mounts.












This post has been edited by toy8490: Apr 19, 2014 - 10:08 AM

[toy8490]

Now heres some pictures of the steering and engine mounts.
This is a 1990 ford mustang rack and pinion, Its the quick ratio. 2.5 turns lock to lock. I also had used the mustang outter tie rod ends, With those joints, i had to use a balljoint reamer to enlarge the hole to the mustang outter tie rod size.

Also if you have noticed, I had to switch the knucles. The left is on the right and right on left. They bolted right up.

[team_omega]

Its looking good. You want to do mines after yours is completed?

[toy8490]

Its looking good. You want to do mines after yours is completed?

Ya i can do yours next. Just get a hold of me when your ready.

[kormysh8]

I can't wait to see the final product. I've been holding onto my celi for a future rwd set up. one day I will have a driftable 6GC... Good luck OP!!

[PR0PH37]

Wow. I don't know what the heck I'm looking at but I'm drooling!

[njccmd2002]

one questions, those tie rods will be under pressure once the wheels touch ground, and the weight of the engine. would it not be better to connect from bottom than top? Right now, they are at an angle, which will be worse on the road...

[toyota123]

I have to say I'm very intrigued by what you are doing here. I always wondered what a R&D celica would be like . Just a few questions for you. How feasible would it be to do this with a 1or 3mz?, would it be the same principle as a V6 swap is now? And also if you are willing to help others with theirs how like ly is it that you would make a kit. Pretty cut subframes mount etc. So that all someone would have to do would be buy the parts and install.
This is probably one of the coolest thing I've seen go down on this site so far
I wish you the best of luck with the rest of the build and hope it works out well for you
I can't wait to see the final product.

This post has been edited by toyota123: Apr 20, 2014 - 11:47 AM

[toy8490]

[quote name='njccmd2002' date='Apr 20, 2014 - 7:57 AM' post='1044549']
one questions, those tie rods will be under pressure once the wheels touch ground, and the weight of the engine. would it not be better to connect from bottom than top? Right now, they are at an angle, which will be worse on the road...
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Yup, I've already been thinking of that. But i'm going to put it togetter first and drive and feel what its like first.
I couldn't do bottom tapper because they are factory top tapper.

But if worse comes to worse I'll be intalling a bump steer kit that they sell for the mustangs, I'll be using a rod end and drill out the tapper and use a thru bolt .




This post has been edited by toy8490: Apr 20, 2014 - 10:59 AM

[LimitedGT4]

Sweet.

I was planning on doing somethin like this to a celica. When you have some time, can tell us all the custom welding you had to do

[toy8490]

Getting closer. Got the struts mounted, so that it will sit down on its own weight.

I'm using 1997 honda civic rear struts. I went with these because, there compact spring/ strut assembly.







This post has been edited by toy8490: May 5, 2014 - 3:18 PM

[toy8490]

I dont know if this is the same pictures as from before, but the heck, the more pictures the better.

Steering mounted.