AWD Conversion Options

[Charlie97L]

ok, so i remember someone claiming to have done this AWD conversion on his 6th gen. i can't remember who though. it's a great idea, i might attempt it at some point if i just have too much money laying around.

i personally really want to see some pics of this car, the engine bay, interior, under car, etc. if this guy really has done this, i want to see it and be able to tell him how much of the s**t he is for pulling this off.

a part list, or detailed description of what was done would also help convince me.

i'm just really interested, and i want MORE OF THIS POTENTIALLY AWESOME CELICA!

bring on the pics.

charlie

[NEVERSTOP]

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i dont believe it, and probably wont because its always the people who cant give pics, but...they always have so much done to their car....  im thinking if anyone on this board actually did this, they would post pics immediatly just to prove its possible...but as in your case you have posted no pics, no proof, probably cause it never happened.

And I have noticed that it's usally the people that dont have jack **** done to there cars that run off at the mouth about other peoples stuff at ne chance they can get and then make a huge deal when they do something small to there car: like figure out how to start it.

tired of a buncha punk kids that started tunning a year and a half ago when they walked out of a movie theather who think painted calipars, bras, underbodyneons, custom interior and **** like that are performance mods, and then are trying to tell me what can and cant be done! I built my 1st engine when most of the people trying to say this stuff where still in dipers! Im not jokin about that either. built my 1st engine when I was 8 years old.. granted my dad was watchin to make sure I didnt mess nething up to bad but that damn thing ran! Thats 14 years...

sorry if I dont wanna post pics yet - thats my choice and nothing you are going to say is gonna make me post a single pic before I decide that its time - SO QUIT ASKING. I am notasking for praise or worship cus I did somthing 1st. which I doubt I was the 1st. If I wanted that you woulda seen pics along time ago - and I wouldnt be trying to explain how to do it.. would keep that to myself.. instead I am trying to help people out with making the most of the 3sgte - and punks like you throw it in my face... point is even if I didnt have this done My car would stomp the **** outta yours even in reverse

I have never asked ne of you to belive me or not. I dont lie... christ I am an EAGLE SCOUT for cryin out loud... think that would say at least a little something about my values and morals when it comes to the truth.. granted I got a little of a temper

as for this swap not being possible... or u stupid or do you just not know a damn thing about nething??? come on seriously? you are asking if you can take a rearend out of a 6th gen celica gt4 and put it into a USDM 6th gen... the holy answer is YES! think about it. same car with really not to many differences besides looks. yes one is FWD and the other is AWD... all of the mesurements are IDENTICAL the rear suspension is just set up a little bit and the gas tank is is the way. you will have to move the exhaust cus its in the way of the driveshaft but it you are going to do this conversion then you would have the 3sgte already and if you had ne sense of things you would of already moved the exhaust piping to a straight peice that ran along the side instead of the center.

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also neverstop i'm curious as to what exactly did u do to make the st-205 trans front drive only and did your car perform with the gearbox that way.

I had a local transmission shop do this for me... what they did was fashion a piece that kinda cupped the rear transfercase that held it into place... kinda hard to describe and transmissions arnt my strong point when it comes to cars. the ST205 transmission has that thing... where the power goes to the point of least resistence... cant remember what it is called.. newayz when I would drive the car what would happen is that the transmission would try and send power to all four wheels but the cupped piece on the rear transfer case would only alow so much movement and then it would stop so most of the power would be transfered to the front wheels. the problem with this is I kept breakin the welds on the cupped piece and then my car wouldn't move until I took it back to the transmission shop and had them reweld it.

I didnt like doing that and but was stuck cuz I had sold my GT transmission already and didnt want to buy anotherone when there has been talk about that transmission not being able to hold up to the 3sgte. so I ended up gettin a rearend from the guy that I bought the 3sgte from and did the conversion.

as for performance, when I had the rear transfer locked out and it was just FWD I noticed that when I shifted that there was a delay from the time I engaged the clutch to the time that the power hit the ground.. it was a good second or so.. and it would kinda lurch when it did it. I have no way to compare this to the GT transmission as I never hooked it up to my 3sgte. once I did the rear end conversion there was no lag or hesatation as there was with it locked out. as for damage to the gear box or nething like that I didnt notice nething other than what I described