I wouldn't say he is "relatively new" to the forums. Raamaudio has been around for a years, and is highly respected, on a number of forums, not just this one.

Most mods I've talked to have been recommended by someone.
Of course, it also helps if you are highly intelligent, helpful, and don't engadge in all the petty BS

 

why would u want to waste your money to convert it to rwd? if you wanted rwd should have buot a rwd car. pointless waste of money that will cost more than a new rwd car. :/

 

I agree with dubledee.

 

But haven't you guys seen the commercials where the cartoon tC drifts its back end a bunch. If they can make it do it in a cartoon, it shouldn't be tooo expensive in real life... right?

 

waste of money. dont turn something into something it wasnt meant to be in the first place

 

omg go back to the [m]

lol

:heart:

 

RWD tC huh? And I thought I was pushing it looking at the Japanese 4wd xA. ;)

http://toyota.jp/ist/grade/grade/index.html

 

It's fun to dream isn't it?

 

I would have loved my Tc with rwd. But as most you all know cars nowadays are mostly FWD. I owned one of the last toyota 84corrola SR-5 that come RWD, Yuo can make your Tc handle almost as well as rwd with stiffer shocks and some upgraded supension parts. I give credit to the tc, they seem to have taken in to concideration front to rear balance when building car. If I'm not mistaken it's 60/40, which isn't bad for fwd. I could be wrong on this figure. Correct me if I'm wrong.

 

Oh, well i saw his profile said 132 days, so i was just a little cat curious.

 

You'd definitely have more success using Rav4 parts (tranny (regeared), dif, driveshaft, axle) only thing stopping you is the reconstruction of the floor to give space for it all.

For all those doubters, why put up such an argument against it? It's only metal. I've seen weirder **** on Monster Garage. Someone even put a 4.3L w/ manual tranny into an automatic 3.0L IS300. It can be done and as to why, to be the only one...isn't that enough? People spend much more doing more outlandish crap to their rides to be unique and original, why is this guy any more foolish?

If you're truly serious, I'd say do it, F' the naysayers and do it. They'll stick ya in a magazine when you're done.

 

I definitely am not against doing it.. and think it would be a cool project. But I wanted to keep it in perspective for him. I have heard a few people mention it on here as a project without thinking of the amount of work involved, especially if paying someone else. As long as you keep in mind that a ton of money will be spent, and are willing to shell it out to have everything done right, then go for it.

 

I'm sure it could be done. and I'm sure that if you know much of anything about cars, you'll know how much cutting, chopping, shuffling and replacing it would require. parts alone would be very costly, and the labor would cost a fortune. theres no point even considering this unless a) you have a ridiculous amount of disposable income and really want a unique tC (and it would definitely be really cool) or b) you own a custom tuning shop. that said, theres no point asking around here how much it would cost, because i doubt anyone around here is qualified to give you even a ballpark figure. youd have to actually take the car to a few places that are equipped to handle the job and have them look at it for a rough estimate on price.

 

No, you're not! If you were, you wouldn't be asking a bunch of kiddies and enthusiasts
in a public forum for help. You'd have already searched out and found some *mad*
metal man mechanic with a well equipped shop, good rates, and lots of time on his hands!


If you have to ask, IT'S TOO MUCH! 'Course, if this was just an opening for you to
brag about how much money you have to burn then, congrats! See my first response!


Great! Why? Why would it be a dream in RWD? Tell me what RWD has over FWD and
how a budget Japanese Unibody car would benefit from such a severely metal fatiguing
transformation? And "to drift" is NOT an answer, that's a driving style that
most people here in the forums for FWD econo boxes don't really understand except
for what they play in video games or do in rental cars in parking lots.

Sorry to be so discouraging and ornery, but this kind of half baked pipe dreams comes
up at least once a week and it's usually some 16-22 male who's seen too much
Monster Garage and watched too many Gumball 3000 videos.

When I wanted to do fiber optic, color changing and twinkling tribal flames down the
side skirts of my xB I didn't post "how much is this gonna cost--I'm on my way!!".
No, I started researching light sources, voltages inverters, computer controlled
LEDs, and fiber optics sourcing.

Guess what, I'm on my way!!!



UPS dropped off the first fiber optics kit last week, I'm drawing out my first design
and hopefully if it isn't too hot this weekend I'm going to hit the workshop and build
the first test project to see how feasible this really is. I'll keep you posted.


Sorry to make this a _____ fest, but it needed to be said.

 

If I did it I would shoot for AWD... may as well go b@lls out! But, I would want to drop about 200 more HP into it before considering that. Who knows.. once I have a place to keep one torn apart for long periods (have been in an apt since I moved to MN.... house buying here we come) I may consider such a project... but I have others that I would much rather pursue.. like putting together the mustang for the track... hell, its the only good use for a mustang... strip it down, build the hell out of the drivetrain and drive it straight..

 

So I shouldn't put my xB on a RAV4 frame?

 

:D Good luck with that considering the xB is smaller that the Rav4.

 

As far as those asking what advantage rwd would have... put me on a track next to you in a FWD with me driving a comparable RWD and you will see the difference from a long ways back For someone who has not driven RWD it may be different, but someone skilled in a RWD will school you on a tight track any day of the week. And as far as drifting... if I say that word I mean the real art of drifting in a corner... not a sideways, show how much rubber I can waste display. I know that is fun and all... but IMO personally it is a waste of a good car... for me.. if others like it that is great. But I grew up doing stupid stuff at 70 mph on curvey dirt roads in a RWD, so fishtailing around on pavement is not worth building a whole car for to me. fun to do, yes.. but I guess I wore some of the excitement off of it

But, I would want to work on the weight dist. of the tC if I went RWD.

 

like a turbo monster v8 eater wait ppl are already doing that hahaha


let the kid dream if he has the cash we will see a post about it one day and all be amazed by what he has done if not then well who cares

 

mid-engine conversions on.....

94 integra (prelude motor)
http://www.honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=981613


corrado (twin turbo VR6)
http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=1693943


civic (acura legend v6)


there's also an AE101 Corolla (the first fwd model corolla coupe) that was converted to front-engine rwd using AE86 parts. I read about it once in an Option magazine.