Engine Swap for Gen 7 Celica
My Celica has 192 Hp and FWD and is simply not vicious enough. My Idea would be to Swap the Engine and convert it to a RWD with a VQ35DE V6 that will get a twin turbo treatment. Any thoughts on this idea?
My Celica has 192 Hp and FWD and is simply not vicious enough. My Idea would be to Swap the Engine and convert it to a RWD with a VQ35DE V6 that will get a twin turbo treatment. Any thoughts on this idea?
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Holy moly yes!
Hell yes put a 1jz in there
I thought about the VQ35DE because it is way easier to get.
Be prepared to do A LOT of fabrication and spend a lot of money on it. I don’t know if you realise how much work it takes to do this kind of swap on an already rwd car, let alone a fwd-rwd conversion. But don’t let that put you of the idea, it’d be an incredible build.
Possibly the biggest task would be creating a custom floor pan to house everything and mount the diff, gearbox, etc onto. It’d need to be millimeter accurate. If you’ve got a donor car, you could potentially use floor pan sections from that
Get a mr2 sypder and do that swap instead. Already an rwd. Liked Danny said, you need to get the floor panel to work on before fitting anything under there.
No, thanks I like my Celica and it won’t be replaced by a MR2.
If you live in USA, Monkey Wrench Racing sells swap kit for K-Series engin. Works fine, not too difficult to swap.
About the rwd conversion, with a little piece of chance, you can house everything in the exhaust tunel, removing the exhaust, but you have to rework the floor pans to fit a gearbox.
Look for an MR2 has donor, I think that it shares very pieces with the 7th celica so it can make the conversion easier, but I’m not very sure about that…
I didnt say replace. Just letting you know why waste time and hard work in doing something that required brain, skills, and money. Might as well get a damn toyota fr-s and swap the engine you ask for.