AWD belta

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Originally Posted by turboecho2005

importing the COMPLETE awd system would cost upwards of 6-7k

Is that new? Southern California has tons of little japanese engine shops that sell pretty much every japanese engine and tranmission used for 400-3000 dollars. I put an engine in my corolla for 1100 installed. I can understand if the AWD belta is pretty rare, but that seems a little high. Anyways, I'd probably try to find a belta with AWD used/salavaged, and work up from there - rather than trying to work engine x and transmission/drivetrain y into chassis z :P

Hypothetically though, if I could find one cheap, would it be able to take 180-240 HP? Would a 2ZZ or 4AGE fit with the AWD set up?

STIs are thousands and thousands of dollars(35 thousands base) - and I can't drive 10 miles without passing 2.