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

[azian_advanced]

you should definitely join if you haven't already. for anyone taking a mechanical engineering degree and want to pursue in automotive engineering, you will have a MUCH better chance of getting a job with SAE in your background. it will probably have a bigger impact than your GPA. the big motor companies in detroit won't hire any engineers without any SAE experience just fyi.

[dudeofchaos]

you should definitely join if you haven't already. for anyone taking a mechanical engineering degree and want to pursue in automotive engineering, you will have a MUCH better chance of getting a job with SAE in your background. it will probably have a bigger impact than your GPA. the big motor companies in detroit won't hire any engineers without any SAE experience just fyi.

The only problem is that I live in eastern Canada.. Not much of a chance I get a job related to cars' engineering. I will have to move to the USA if I want a car-related job. Otherwise I'll just stay here and get a different job. I'm not necessarely thinking about getting a job that involes cars, but I would like to. Anyways, the futur only will tell me my futur job lol.

But I will look at this for sure. I will probably join the SAE formula. But we are the only ''Cegep'' (You guys don't have this where you are, it's between high school and university.. Pretty much like college.) that participates in the SAE formula in America I heard. The rest are all Universities. So I have a lot of time ahead to get in it, still 2 years of Cegep and then a minimum of 3 other years of Uni.

This post has been edited by dudeofchaos: Oct 1, 2010 - 6:40 PM