Hey guys. whats the best way to convert my ae95 to rear wheel drive. looking for something easy to do so my cars is better on gas and more powerful.
Its 4WD for your information.
Its 4WD for your information.
darth-grantius
Converting a car like that would cost tens of thousands of dollars and you would never make it better on gas and more powerful at the same time, sorry to bust your dreams
wow, it doesnt seem like your experienced enough to even consider undertaking a project of this magnitude, this would take an experienced automotive fabricator thousands of dollars and a ton of headaches trying to get things to fit right ... first off you need to build a tunnel under the car ... secondly, you need to build brackets to support everything (such as tranny, engine, driveshaft) , then u need to modify the rear end to accept the axle ... this all requires frame modification and heavy fabrication, and non of this would give you better gas milage or more power (im guessing your saying horsepower ... when u say power, that is a tell tale sign of a newbie, you should talk in terms of horsepower and torque not the general power)
All in All ... not worth the time or money ... just go buy an AE86 or another rear-wheel drive vehicle
to the two responders....
ae95 is the 4wd corolla.... it's not nearly as much "fabrication" as you think.
to the OP... it wouldn't be super easy, but you have the correct chasis in terms of post 1987 corolla's....
the problem is.... if you want to go with an FR setup, generally the motor sits perpendicular to how it sits now. The 4wd corolla's actually have a FWD based transmission with a differential that has a rear-end driveshaft output.
you could relatively easily find a T50 and bolt a 4afe or 4age to it and fabricate some mounts.... most things like hydraulics (etc) wouldn't be too difficult as an ae86 is very similar to an ae92.... you may need a custom driveshaft but an ae86 variant *may* work. You would have to fabricate motor mounts and possibly extend the wiring harness...
If you went with a 4age the manifold issue would be as simple as finding ae86 manifolds....
ae95 is the 4wd corolla.... it's not nearly as much "fabrication" as you think.
to the OP... it wouldn't be super easy, but you have the correct chasis in terms of post 1987 corolla's....
the problem is.... if you want to go with an FR setup, generally the motor sits perpendicular to how it sits now. The 4wd corolla's actually have a FWD based transmission with a differential that has a rear-end driveshaft output.
you could relatively easily find a T50 and bolt a 4afe or 4age to it and fabricate some mounts.... most things like hydraulics (etc) wouldn't be too difficult as an ae86 is very similar to an ae92.... you may need a custom driveshaft but an ae86 variant *may* work. You would have to fabricate motor mounts and possibly extend the wiring harness...
If you went with a 4age the manifold issue would be as simple as finding ae86 manifolds....
I don't think the existing transmission tunnel is big enough to fit a transmission in though. it's probably just a slightly bigger exhaust tunnel...
but I know people have done this on evos. but I'm not sure if their center diff is the same and if the corollas center diff would be fine with what the evo guys do.
but I know people have done this on evos. but I'm not sure if their center diff is the same and if the corollas center diff would be fine with what the evo guys do.
i HAVE an AE95 sedan, and dont do it, the central tunnel is just a larger exhaust tunnel for the driveshaft, a transmission will not fit
also dont scrap the transmission for that, anyways its an AWD, have fun with it like this
also dont scrap the transmission for that, anyways its an AWD, have fun with it like this
the easiest no BS way to convert the ae95 to rwd would be to sell it and buy an ae86. Seriously.
I wouldn't think so, if you take the cv's out you will be letting most of the gear oil out of the tranny and with nothing I can think of to plug them you will kill the tranny.
if you haven't even changed a cv before I would say that a conversion is likely too much for you.
if you haven't even changed a cv before I would say that a conversion is likely too much for you.
I have heard of it done to Subaru WRXs for the purpose of drifting.
I doubt just removing the front axle shafts will do it though.
I think you will need to immobilize the front differential so as to not loose motion there.
Do some research on some Subaru forums and see if you can find anything there.
Honestly I agree with j2b4osan, sell the car and get an AE86. A lot less headache I think.
I doubt just removing the front axle shafts will do it though.
I think you will need to immobilize the front differential so as to not loose motion there.
Do some research on some Subaru forums and see if you can find anything there.
Honestly I agree with j2b4osan, sell the car and get an AE86. A lot less headache I think.
I don't think that it would improve mileage at all, that's why most vehicles with good fuel economy are FF. Also, given the extent of your capabilities, I'd honestly say it's out of your league. Just running the rear diff in an AE95 would be like running a 4X4 truck with only the front driveshaft attached...sure, it'll do it, but it's not designed to be operated that way and problems will occur.
Yeah mine has a worn clutch from the previous owner - an old lady. Mine's a '93 though, so it has the EFI.
dont worry, you can easily make it slide, its just require a bit more technique, as long as your not on asphalt, its not that hard
4age > 7afe.....
I wouldn't actually pull the front joints from an ae95....
it's been done on many subarus.... however, the drivetrain in an ae95 is NOT the same as a subaru.... if you had a celica alltrac, which like the subarus, has a full time AWD setup...
the ae95 is electronically selectable.... further, the bias is actually 60/40.... so, 1) you don't have 23hp per wheel... and 2) you should be able to turn the rear wheels off and you'll only lose MPG based on drag from the diff and extra weight of the vehicle....
There's a possibility that the electrinics will have a problem with you not having any load on the front wheels if you were to pull the axles & leave the joints.
the tunnel in an ae95 is much larger than in an ae92..... if you would have to modify it, good possible chance that a good hammer would do the trick... a T50 isn't that big of a transmission....
I wouldn't actually pull the front joints from an ae95....
it's been done on many subarus.... however, the drivetrain in an ae95 is NOT the same as a subaru.... if you had a celica alltrac, which like the subarus, has a full time AWD setup...
the ae95 is electronically selectable.... further, the bias is actually 60/40.... so, 1) you don't have 23hp per wheel... and 2) you should be able to turn the rear wheels off and you'll only lose MPG based on drag from the diff and extra weight of the vehicle....
There's a possibility that the electrinics will have a problem with you not having any load on the front wheels if you were to pull the axles & leave the joints.
the tunnel in an ae95 is much larger than in an ae92..... if you would have to modify it, good possible chance that a good hammer would do the trick... a T50 isn't that big of a transmission....
4age > 7afe.....
I wouldn't actually pull the front joints from an ae95....
it's been done on many subarus.... however, the drivetrain in an ae95 is NOT the same as a subaru.... if you had a celica alltrac, which like the subarus, has a full time AWD setup...
the ae95 is electronically selectable.... further, the bias is actually 60/40.... so, 1) you don't have 23hp per wheel... and 2) you should be able to turn the rear wheels off and you'll only lose MPG based on drag from the diff and extra weight of the vehicle....
There's a possibility that the electrinics will have a problem with you not having any load on the front wheels if you were to pull the axles & leave the joints.
the tunnel in an ae95 is much larger than in an ae92..... if you would have to modify it, good possible chance that a good hammer would do the trick... a T50 isn't that big of a transmission....
The tunnel in an AE92 is strictly for the exhaust tubing ... i wouldn't even compare the two ... and you cant do the good ol hammer trick to a part of the car that has multiple layers of sheet metal ... how much space do u think you could actually make before destroying everything, you would have to cut out the metal and build a tunnel, if your going to do something like an engine swap or full driveline swap, ud better do it right the first time before the tranny drops out of the car and drags along the ground. Again, this would take an experienced automotive fabricator thousands of dollars and a ton of headaches trying to get things to fit right ... first off you need to build a tunnel under the car (OR ENLARGE THE EXISTING ONE, ITS STILL FABRICATION THOUGH)... secondly, you need to build brackets to support everything (such as tranny, engine, driveshaft) , then u need to modify the rear end to accept the axle ... this all requires frame modification and heavy fabrication, and non of this would give you better gas milage or more power
this subject is like :deadhorse
hey, its easy as hell to oversteer with the FWD version, so imagine with the AWD version
if they did'nt have a sway bar on the AWD version, it would be outright dangerous to drive that car fast
if they did'nt have a sway bar on the AWD version, it would be outright dangerous to drive that car fast
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