Hey guys

My question is what would I have to pay for a drive in drive out conversion everything done? And who would I need to see?

Also what would a reasonable price be for all this?

Depends on your time frame. Do you have an engine?

Edited August 20, 201016 yr by blzbub666

Or beer/cash

Damn edited my post, noone will get that dangdang. :(

Depends on your time frame. Do you have an engine?

Not yet just wanna see what I would be up for if I go down that road in the hopefully near future kinda new to the whole thing,

And I'm not mechanically minded.

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I'll pay 6 beers for sure

You wont get a straight 'its gonna cost X amounts of money'.

Better idea, see if people in your area have done it, have experience. Find an engine, get them to put it in.

 

Whats your budget? If you say anything under 1000 bucks no one will take you serious. If I could get a 4AGE conversion for a grand i'd have one.

You wont get a straight 'its gonna cost X amounts of money'.

Better idea, see if people in your area have done it, have experience. Find an engine, get them to put it in.

 

Whats your budget? If you say anything under 1000 bucks no one will take you serious. If I could get a 4AGE conversion for a grand i'd have one.

Money ain't no issue I'll save what is needed or just work a few saturdays. Probably won't be for Lil bit yet just want a price range to save for

Drive in, drive out? .......10-15k possibly?

$10,000 would be the target most guys look at in Altezzaclub. The most popular one is a Supra 2J into a Lexus IS200.

 

You can sink the first few thousand into rebuilding the donor engine which will need new rings/rebore/bearings/water pump etc, Then a grand or two into the gearbox conversion back to the diff, and then finally start on the fabrication needed to get your refreshed motor in there and hooked up. Don't forget a new radiator and damm near everything in a thirty year old car.

 

Most guys will say this is bullshit, but most guys have never taken their car into a garage and had a conversion done for 'retail' prices.

Ive done two ke70 to 4age conversion now (in my old sedan and in my panelvan), ill give you an idea:

 

All labour (incl wiring) was done by me and all parts also sourced myself.

 

sedan was $2800ish but i paid top dollar for my bare motor from a toyota specialist ($950) and this was in 2007 when people basically threw away ae71 pedal boxes, tailshafts etc and t50 went for 150-200, not 300+ now.. this included all new filters, timing belt kit, clutch, waterpump, seals, fluids which i got not much above cost price.

 

Panelvan was about $2300 but i had to pay top dollar for the 4a conversion bits (crossmembers,pedal box,gearbox etc) that was 600? luckily i found an engine at a good price this time. again this price included all new filters, timing belt kit, clutch, waterpump, seals, fluids which i got not much above cost price.

 

If you want a workshop to do it, take the time and find the parts yourself. The workshop will most likely be more keen to actually take on your job if you have most of the parts. saves them chasing the bits and charging you for it. and you don't have to be mech minded to do this part. :(

 

In Vic a Toyota wreckers/workshop would do this conversion for under 10k. Around 5-7k from quotes ive heard.

Ive done two ke70 to 4age conversion now (in my old sedan and in my panelvan), ill give you an idea:

 

All labour (incl wiring) was done by me and all parts also sourced myself.

 

sedan was $2800ish but i paid top dollar for my bare motor from a toyota specialist ($950) and this was in 2007 when people basically threw away ae71 pedal boxes, tailshafts etc and t50 went for 150-200, not 300+ now.. this included all new filters, timing belt kit, clutch, waterpump, seals, fluids which i got not much above cost price.

 

Panelvan was about $2300 but i had to pay top dollar for the 4a conversion bits (crossmembers,pedal box,gearbox etc) that was 600? luckily i found an engine at a good price this time. again this price included all new filters, timing belt kit, clutch, waterpump, seals, fluids which i got not much above cost price.

 

If you want a workshop to do it, take the time and find the parts yourself. The workshop will most likely be more keen to actually take on your job if you have most of the parts. saves them chasing the bits and charging you for it. and you don't have to be mech minded to do this part. :(

 

In Vic a Toyota wreckers/workshop would do this conversion for under 10k. Around 5-7k from quotes ive heard.

 

So if I get all the parts I need and get someone to help me there would be quite a price difference, might have someone that can help but unsure if he can do the wiring

So if I get all the parts I need and get someone to help me there would be quite a price difference,

 

definitely. its pretty easy to do mate. your talking mechanics on a 30yo corolla. basic cars that are extremely well built, so easy to pull apart not like European junk :(

 

might have someone that can help but unsure if he can do the wiring

 

even aim to get the motor in, bolted up and take it to someone else to wire if your not confident in trying it. maybe cost you 500bucks? to wire it in.

 

There is so much info on this site to help you along the way, plenty of writeups etc i say give it ago if you have the garage space to do it.

 

 

edit: just noticed your username! lmao

Edited August 22, 201016 yr by e70van

It depends how much you do yourself. I recently got a silvtertop put into my AE86 and it cost a fortune. The problem is people don't think about the labour and all the little things, sure you can pick up an engine and loom cheap, but then you need all the bits and bobs, new radiator, this and that, and it gets quite expensive.

 

I was quoted roughly 5-7kish from ToyoSpares in Melbourne for a 4age conversion, drive in/drive out no exhaust(probably one of the places e70van is referring to). In the end I payed a lot more than that, I think 10-15 is reasonable if you are talking about getting it done by someone else. If you are doing it yourself it's potentially just the cost of the motor and one or two little things, or you can always slowly steal them from pick a part over three years (know people who have tried this approach cause they were poor and trying to do a conversion out of their price range and it always never got finished).