Fr 3s-gte??? - Toyota Nation Forum : Toyota Car and Truck Forums

mr2trd · 05-20-2004, 11:44 AM

holy crap MR2er's, i was just thinking....if only Toyota made a lightweight sports coupe...front engine-rear wheel drive (FR) with the 3S-GTE, it would sell like hotcakes. Silvia's and 180sx's would be off the drift tracks in no time, watching a drift machines with the venerable 3S-GTE.

Does Toyota actually think the Hachi-Roku can hold it's ground if Nissan pulls out another Silvia...let's say 16...? I just think the 3S-GTE is the ideal motor to be revived by toyota. Trash the 1ZZ and 2ZZ...and bring back the turbo-charged iron block 3S.

***Ratko*** · 05-20-2004, 11:50 AM

Wasn't there speak of a modern 3SGTE going into a new Scion that is yet to be released?

Piddy · 05-20-2004, 02:54 PM

Couldn't you drop a 3S-GTE into a '91 Celica w/ a 5S-FE tranny? Sure the tranny wouldn't last long.... but there has to be another fwd replacement.

mr2blackna · 05-20-2004, 05:14 PM

its call a Caldina... some FWD... some AWD...

Piddy · 05-20-2004, 05:43 PM

^ ya. And aren't all of the Caldina's 3rd gen 3sgtes? Pretty damn slick.

mr2trd · 05-21-2004, 11:42 AM

forget about FF and 4WD....we want some light-weight FR with power. Supra's and Lexus' are too heavy...need something more like the Silvia, but in Toyota trim and motor. if i had the cash...i would do a Supra with Mr2 motor job....juss like the JGTC and Top Secret.

Piddy · 05-21-2004, 11:48 AM

People have dropped 3S-GTE's into supras for drifting to lose the weight. Seems like you would want more of a celica type car though.

***Ratko*** · 05-21-2004, 12:14 PM

Cressidas. RWD. with 1JZ-GTE's in them, they are powerful track/race cars.

mr2trd · 05-21-2004, 02:37 PM

"People have dropped 3S-GTE's into supras for drifting to lose the weight. Seems like you would want more of a celica type car though."

i don't get it, ishcoleobo. why would i want a celica type car...when i want FR with 3S-GTE??? FR = drifting...not FF.

Piddy · 05-21-2004, 02:51 PM

Not FF..... but something smaller.... Celica size.... is what I meant. Supras are pretty big if you think about it.

***Tercel GTS*** · 05-21-2004, 06:21 PM

I've seen 3SGTE's in rear wheel drive conversion cars, most in australia, where the people are really insane...

mr2blackna · 05-22-2004, 08:38 AM

Supra with 3sgte... sounds like Top Secret's Supra. Nice distribution weight and power.

S4gasm · 06-03-2004, 01:22 PM

pretty sure it's possible to lock the center dif on an awd car and make it rwd. so you could start with a celica all-trac... it's been done on the wrx. there was actually an article in sport compact on it a couple of months ago. some company makes a center dif you can use to do it on the wrx. but i think all it takes is some welding to lock the dif up. and the rear drive axle would need to be beefed up. and doesn't the all-trac already have the gen 1 3s in it? i don't know much about them. if it doens't you could always rock the gt-4 swap. not really sure if this would work, but worth looking into.

***MRQtwinturbo*** · 06-03-2004, 03:39 PM

what toyota should have done was make the newest gen celica rwd and with a lil more balls........revive the 3sgte in it would be sweet.....get back into making turbo cars....

Piddy · 06-03-2004, 04:20 PM

^ Ya... I called toyota a while back asking a price on an intercooler. Nobody in the place new what an intercooler was. Finally I hear this guy screaming in the background... "The cars a turbo you dumb asses." Then the guy says... I didn't know we made any turbo cars. Stopped taking my car there for service

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