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Re: Turboing the Celica SX ST162 anyone?

Wed, 13 October 2004 14:30

why do I regret it, well this is why mostly,

Corona RT142 wrote on Wed, 13 October 2004 14:15

Say hello to torque steer. Someone on here the other day was saying the front wheel drive setup couldn't handle too much more power than the stock 3sge puts outs. In my opinion turbo charging a front wheel drive car is pretty pointless it is just a hiding to nowhere. You ruin the cars handling as you can no longer accellerate hard through corners and you make the car a bitch to get off the line in the wet let alone dry.

add that with a racing clutch so it won't slip and yeah, you get real bored with the car, give it time you will stop liking it eventually. you say you had it swapped for a while now, not that long since i have had mine done for well over a year, sure I loved it for the first 6 months as well.

the car is just no fun to drive anymore. There is a big defferance between a fun car and a fast car, personally I would take the fun car Very Happy

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there is nothing wrong with the gen1 engine, can you say you did the whole swap engineering included (everything required to do the swap as well... everything) for under $4000, when you can say that then the gen1 may have a problem, and the 4wd box is damn strong it won't break like your fwd box, it only adds about 40kg extra, its not that bad.

oh fair enough I have seen a couple of sw20's with the alternator next to the exhaust manifold i thought.

[Updated on: Wed, 13 October 2004 14:34]

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