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

[richee3]

RWD Celica? You COULD do it yourself... Or you could just sit back and let Toyota do all the work. They did it back in 1978.



Then again in 1981.



Then again in 1986.



And in 1993, they really felt the need to outdo themselves.



What I'm getting at is that you CAN convert your Celica to RWD, but it's cheaper and easier to convert to AWD. And seeing as you're in Montreal, and you intend to buy a GT4 anyway, you're better off to just do that. I hope to see a RWD Celica. I really do. But if it was me, I'd spend the money on a Supra or a GT4. You spend less money and get a lot more.

This post has been edited by richee3: Sep 26, 2010 - 5:02 AM