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

[JuMPiiN]

If you want it so badly..... buy a MR2 or somekind of Supra..... and just figure out a way to put a Celica body onto one of those frames... If you could figure that out it would save you plenty money.

What everyone above is saying there is no point in doing it. AWD, yea I can understand if you live in the states. But YOU live in Canada where you can just go buy a GT4 no questions asked.

There is no point in forking out roughly 10-20K in parts then fabricating everything, then hoping it works because you have NO GUIDELINES what so ever with this swap. Where as if you do decide to do the AWD conversion theres tons of information on here for that swap. I dont really see the point in doing a AWD conversion considering where you live you can just go buy a authentic GT4 for less than the conversion.

Im not saying or doubting your abilities to do either or. I just dont see the point in doing it when you can buy it for less than building it. Like i said before if your confident in doing it by all means go for it. It just doesnt make any sense to me in doing it when you can go buy it, or get the older celica and drop the Supra TT 2jz-gte in it and be done.

If you ask this crazy question get ready for crazy answers, your basically asking what everyone else asks when they first get the Celica, ( " How hard is it to put the 2jz into my Celica ?" )

Anything is possible. But is it worth it ? Probably not, literally every part on the car would have to be custom made. I could keep going on and on. But from the looks of it so far you already had your mind set on this before you even posted the thread.