#rwd conversion

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prisma bolt
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I'm new to car, but I'd love to take one of those 90's hatchback, i.e Toyota starlet, and rwd it. Any tip on how and why I should or shouldn't do it, how much money and time will it cost and also difficulty wise how is it

muted dragon
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Check if you can get a e70 corrola, they rwd already. You get a liftback in that shape but they quite rare. Otherwise ae86 if you got cash to spend

abstract adder
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Doing a rwd conversion is a lot more fabrication than you’d expect. It would be a fun project but plan for it to be double or triple the time and cost than you think it would be.

narrow grail
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You will also need a new transmission, custom driveshaft, a rear differential along with all the components that attach to it. Mounts throughout the underside, new engine mount. Probably gonna have to cut your firewall, electrical work as you are gonna have to probably extend some wires and will have to hook up the manual transmission, new ecu, and structural reinforcements. Way too much work. If you are asking this question, sadly I don’t think you should consider this path. Get a rwd car

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Also do you have a welder? (As you will need it for making brackets and reinforcements; it will also have to be gas). Do you have refinishing equipment? (With welding you will be removing coatings and will need to reapply them as well as adding corrosion protection. YOU CANT USE RATTLE CANS)

cyan tartan
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think of ot like this your engine rn is mounted transversal (sideways) you would have to turn it to be length ways with the car than fabricate both transmission and engine mounts aswell as make a custom driveshaft and then mount the rear differential and axles

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it can probably be done and not as hard as you may think but hen again could be 10x harder than you think if your deadset on rwd fine but look into awd as they can be just as fun and im fairly certain there is awd kits for most honda's these days than you could just find a way to distribute power 100% to the rear wheels i know sometimes you can do this live with a controller type system but you could also just remove the front driveshaft lol

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prisma bolt
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but anyway my project was something like not for road use, but maybe uphill race/drift

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neat hornet
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Late 70s to early 80s were rear wheel drive. My people(Puerto Ricans) absolutely LOVE putting rotary engines in these cars

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Op, this will take you a long time, you would have to have an engine that would some what fit, then cut the engine bay to fit. Transmission tunnel, drive shaft tunnel. Rear subframe would have to be changed out for axles and a pumpkin. So you would have to find one that would fit or modify one to fit. And that’s not even including the typical engine and transmission swap things you would do if you were just doing a FWD TO FWD swap.

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Unless it’s been done a bunch of times, it would all be new. For example, making hatchback civics from the 90s AWD is nothing new anymore since it has been done. It would be a lot of work but there is PLENTY of information now to do it

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You might be the only one in the world that would have done a conversion like this, which is super dope, but that alone tells you it’s a lot of money and work.

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Just my opinion! 😃

narrow grail
narrow grail