ok....so he cant drift but this is cool. I read through the thread on a forum this guy is part of be fore he finished the car. He just had an EK hatch with a blown motor and a totaled corvette and decided to put them together. the working photos are amazing because the amount of custom work involved and how he did it was just completely and utterly NUTS. Kind of an overnight sensation really. I have seen it in a couple magazines and all over the web.
Great initiative although not practical. That thing would be good for burnouts and nothing else. It does sound funny though, Civic flying around with LS1 sounds screaming out. And Sheep your right, he does look like a [shizzle] driver or the suspension and balance of the car just cant take the power hitting the rear.
considering the power and torque and lack of weight back there, it would be a right handful, but if you had some finess on the gas pedal, nothing to stop it cornering fast.
he clearly wasnt trying to corner fast
he was just flicking it around having a bit of fun. maybe hes a noob to rwd? perhaps thats how the vette ended up bent ;-)
ok, hes definitely just [fizzle]ing around there. with all that steel down low, and the gearbox at the back, and ally engine, it would be a pretty decently balanced car.
We need more people in the Probe/Mx6 scene that has that kind of motivation. There's only 3 RWD ones of ours that I know of.... (And there's a 4th guy that last year was working on a RWD LS1 conversion on his 2g)
Its the money/time/tools/donor car required to do so.
Mostly the money. I could never justify spending that much on that car if I wasent loaded and using it at the track only. Otherwise its just a high powerd gas hog on the street, and personally a civic is the last body platform Id put that motor in.. perhaps something with a bit more style.
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Well when people talk about doing a rear wheel setup on their mx6, they get flamed!!
They dont usually "talk about doing it" They alwase ask if its possible, if anyone has done it, how its done... and 9 x out of 10 they dont have the money, tools, skills, brains or motivation to do it and stick with it.
You can put RWD or AWD on anything provided you have a frame to slap a body onto.
You cant do a direct bolt on motor/trans/axle swap on any FWD car. People that dont know any better think you can.
Well when people talk about doing a rear wheel setup on their mx6, they get flamed!!
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They dont usually "talk about doing it" They alwase ask if its possible, if anyone has done it, how its done... and 9 x out of 10 they dont have the money, tools, skills, brains or motivation to do it and stick with it.
You can put RWD or AWD on anything provided you have a frame to slap a body onto.
i agree with both of you.
its also about desire. mx6 as much as you guys all love them isnt the hottest shell to chuck a lot of cash at and turn into a monster.
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You cant do a direct bolt on motor/trans/axle swap on any FWD car. People that dont know any better think you can.
yeah you can. and you can do it on the cheap too, but it takes a lot of time and skill and thought. most people are missing at least one of those :-)
at home i met some guys with a corolla station wagon with a 13bt in it. its just not a big deal to chuck some engine mounts at it and a trans tunnel and diff and driveshaft.
if you did it gheto style you could do it in a weekend.
there is an awesome ta celica on toymods or similar site with a full skyline gtr drive train and twin turbo 1uzfe lexus 4l v8. that car would destroy almost anything, and looks 40 years old. very cool swap.
Dont forget that ford sells a kit to drop either a small block a cammer motor in to the focus.
it's (almost) a bolt in deal.
I have also noticed that some eighties jap cars when they were switching to FWD seemed to retain the RWD structure for a few years. The maxima for example.
I cant find it now but I saw a early civic with an old school small block Hemi in it.
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90 pontiac transam. 350 TPI motor new 24# injectors. Rebuilt trans. lots to come.
Not saying there isnt of course, but every single FWD to RWD conversion ive seen as always been for a drag car. Not once ever track. I think mx6's would have the look, if the bonnet was a bit longer . Always felt the bonnet was to small and you can tell it is a fwd car.
Wait a minute fredio, youve seen the 6 second pac mx6 havent you. That looks sweet as.
Yep the PAC performance 26b thingo with an MX6 shell and an ugly as VL spoiler.
But they still call it an mx6!!!
theres also a 13b rx7 thats made it into the 6's that i read about somewhere, half the rotors of the pac performance one.
And i could imagine a rwd conversion being done for fun rather then just drag racing, which is dumb anyway, I tihnk the reason most people dont do rwd conversions is because they could jsut buy a car meant for it for the same or less. ie you could do the conversion, pay for the parts required... then pay for all the stuff to make it legal... then the heavily inflated insurance... or...you could buy an rx7... I picture how i would do it, but all the paperwork to make it roadworthy would kill me.
--mike
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. Always felt the bonnet was to small and you can tell it is a fwd car.
