AE86 GTS to SR5 same as AE92 GTS to SR5 Conversion? - Toyota Nation Forum : Toyota Car and Truck Forums

OwnerOfReality · 12-24-2005, 09:39 PM

Ive been googling, searching through all kinds of posts on toyota nation read all kinds of tutorials on AE86 swaps and read all kindsa random stuff about the AE92 GTS but nothing about an AE92 SR5 to GTS swap

is it the same as the AE86 swap?

also before ANYBODY suggests that i should just go out and buy a GTS.........I live in Georgia, there is absolutely NO corolla SR5s or GTSs in my area within 200 miles (if there was i would already have a GTS I am willing to drive 200-300 miles for one too.....) ive been on autotrader, ebay, AJC (newspaper thing), ect.

epyon22 · 12-24-2005, 10:20 PM

yeah...hard to find them. my advice is just keep your eyes out. a sr5 conversion would probally consist of the same things. swap out that 4ac for the 4age different tranny idk if the shocks are different

OwnerOfReality · 12-24-2005, 10:33 PM

i just realized i put GTS to SR5 when it should say SR5 to GTS...

should i just try and find a GTS at the junkyard? (lots of them... horrid condition though esp rust...) and fix it up? most of the cars have been left w/ the doors/windows open out in the rain FULL of water

canadianae92 · 12-24-2005, 10:52 PM

Yea when I saw the title I was like "WTF". Anyways you could probably just find a smacked up GT-S for the engine and tranny and ecu and wiring (with the back end smacked up) and swap it over, unless you come across a actual gt-s for sale, I don't know to much about it but It shouldn't be to hard, think it might be cheaper buyin a gt-s tho.

OwnerOfReality · 12-25-2005, 11:23 AM

i will probably try and do that the second another GTS hits the junkyard so i can grab most of what i need since most of its is gone off the other 6 gts's

***REN69*** · 12-25-2005, 12:31 PM

You're better off finding a GTS because pretty much everything is different.

Interior
-seats
-dash (clusters,
-body panels (doors and rear panels)
-console

Exterior
-skirts (SR5s have no holes for them)
-spoiler (some SR5s had them, some didn't)
-wheels

Suspension
-front/rear sway bars
-front serviceable struts (rears are all the same)
-front strut tower bar

Motor
-duh!

That pretty much sums it up.

OwnerOfReality · 12-25-2005, 01:02 PM

that actually sounds like it would be better off for me to do... so i can slowly change it to a GTS and not save up a bunch and have alot of work to do

what is the difference between the GTS seats and the SR5 seats? are the back seats the same?

epyon22 · 12-25-2005, 02:02 PM

gts seats are amazing they are compleatly ajustable and really comfortable

***REN69*** · 12-25-2005, 02:43 PM

That's like comparing an office chair to an executive chair... which one is better.

freakinbox · 12-25-2005, 03:02 PM

I like the idea of mixing and matching various shit in the 2 cars to get a car that I like. The gts seats are amazing

. I put a set in my car. the back ones are the same shape but different material.

canadianae92 · 12-25-2005, 03:03 PM

Actually if I got an sr5 for my first car I'd keep the engine and turbo it and just swap suspension components and the rear disc brakes over from the gt-s and some other various parts.

***REN69*** · 12-25-2005, 03:21 PM

GTS seats thanks to freakingbox's cardomain page.

OwnerOfReality · 12-26-2005, 09:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by REN69

GTS seats thanks to freakingbox's cardomain page.

ooo... i didnt see any of those in the GTS's at the junkyard... they had crummy SR5 style seats....

got back from the junkyard w/ a new dash (nowhere near as cracked as my old one) grabbed some new door panels from a GTS (the ones w/ the door handle instead of the cubby hole like the picture above)

are the back seats of an SR5 as comfortable as the ones from a GTS?

canadianae92 · 12-26-2005, 11:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by OwnerOfReality

ooo... i didnt see any of those in the GTS's at the junkyard... they had crummy SR5 style seats....

got back from the junkyard w/ a new dash (nowhere near as cracked as my old one) grabbed some new door panels from a GTS (the ones w/ the door handle instead of the cubby hole like the picture above)

are the back seats of an SR5 as comfortable as the ones from a GTS?

Their the same...

toyotaspeed90 · 12-27-2005, 06:48 AM

um, my sr5 seats are great..... they bolster really well... and the driver seat is 3 way adjustable (stock).

Couple things to note..... for the front swaybar you also need all of the bracketry, the control arms, and the swaybar endlinks. SR5's have rear swaybars. To install the strut brace you need to drill the firewall. GTS's also have rear disc brakes. Since the spoiler in a GTS has the 3rd brakelight, the SR5 rear dash is different (because it houses the 3rd brakelight.... which many other sr5 owners have complained, like myself, about the housing being designed poorly and the bulb gets too hot & melts the ground making it work intermittently). Although the SR5 doesn't have the holes for the sideskirts, they're easy to install.

At this point, (on this forum) i'm probably the closest to having an SR5 -> GTS conversion done on an ae92. Although quite a bit of the stuff that's different i've gotten better parts than stock to replace them. Done the motorswap (and i just got the aftermarket ECU, so once i build it & install it the motor will get the ITB's back). Have the front swaybar (except mine is slightly larger, it came from a Japanese GTZ) and front strutbrace. I have the gauges (all of them, i got rid of the stock SR5 dummy lights). I have the sideskirts on as well. The suspension has been upgraded -> kyb gr2's & suspension techniques, then Tein upper pillow ball strut mounts all around (aka 'camber plates'). I have the GTS rear trunklid & spoiler (but not installed, my sr5 does have a spoiler that's similar already on it).