Hello,
Long time reader first time poster, before I start let me mention that I have searched this forum and many others for an answer to my questions.
I'm building my celica for Rally America. A beginner rallyist isn't allowed the use of a turbo until they have gathered enough coefficients(about 4 events) to run a turbo car in their series. But even beyond that the classes that do run turbo's (open/Production) are filled with well funded factory backed teams and production class which means the car has to be run near stock aside from brakes, suspension, & ecu, which would make the all-trac almost worthless compared to a factory evo or sti.
So I have decided to build my all-tracs for Open Light which is a class that allows 4wd car w/ out the use of Turbos, and has a max displacement of 2.6l. The class has really picked up steam and we had 14 entries for Open light this year at our Olympus round in Washington state. Most of the competitors use the Subaru 2.5rs and we even had one sti w/ the turbo removed. I think this will be the right class for myself and the all-trac. Here's my plan.
Originally I was going to take the manifolds off of my 3sgte and just make/source a header and side draft, leave the long block as it is, this would be the easiest solution but I'm sure the car would be a dog and I have a whole year now to build and prep for next year.
I'd like to know about mating a red top beams engine out of an mr2 to an all-trac's running gear. I can figure out the wiring but I want to make sure before I start sourcing a long block that this will work in theory. Thanks for your help I really appreciate it.
Long time reader first time poster, before I start let me mention that I have searched this forum and many others for an answer to my questions.
I'm building my celica for Rally America. A beginner rallyist isn't allowed the use of a turbo until they have gathered enough coefficients(about 4 events) to run a turbo car in their series. But even beyond that the classes that do run turbo's (open/Production) are filled with well funded factory backed teams and production class which means the car has to be run near stock aside from brakes, suspension, & ecu, which would make the all-trac almost worthless compared to a factory evo or sti.
So I have decided to build my all-tracs for Open Light which is a class that allows 4wd car w/ out the use of Turbos, and has a max displacement of 2.6l. The class has really picked up steam and we had 14 entries for Open light this year at our Olympus round in Washington state. Most of the competitors use the Subaru 2.5rs and we even had one sti w/ the turbo removed. I think this will be the right class for myself and the all-trac. Here's my plan.
Originally I was going to take the manifolds off of my 3sgte and just make/source a header and side draft, leave the long block as it is, this would be the easiest solution but I'm sure the car would be a dog and I have a whole year now to build and prep for next year.
I'd like to know about mating a red top beams engine out of an mr2 to an all-trac's running gear. I can figure out the wiring but I want to make sure before I start sourcing a long block that this will work in theory. Thanks for your help I really appreciate it.