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Celica into a Lamborghini

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I remembered one day that I let one of my friends drive my car, we stopped behind a clean truck (hard to find those in this part of the south) and he saw the reflection of the Celica in the truck and said "It almost looks like a Lamborghini from this angle." Then today I was looking at pictures of the Lamborghini Murcielago and came up with the perfect thing to do to the Celica. Here it is. Switch from the five seater into a two seater (take out everything from behind the front seats), rear-mount a bigger, better engine (like the V12 from a Murcielago) and also have it rear-wheel drive (goes without saying) and finally convert those tiny back windows into giant vents to get air to the engine. I think this would be a lot cheaper than getting a Lamborghini which I believe is over $200,000.oo I don't know because I couldn't find the price in USD. Of course if you use a V12 than it wouldn't be that much cheaper but like get something like a Chevy small block, but then gas would be a b!tch.

Anybody have any idea how much it would cost to do this, minus the price of the engine since that is chosen by preference (hypothetically, just wondering, I can't do because I'm poor, just interested, please no comments like "don't waste your money" or "use that money for something better" just comment on the performance aspect, how it would make the car better/worse)?
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this is not the forum to start a joke unless your post count is pushing 10k.

and billzster, the exige and elise run a modified 2zz cranking 190hp. the cheapest way to those speeds and agility is a C6 Z06.
I thought it would be great to see because what the hell but I am not gonna do it and no one else will either. I read the whole post and he was not planning on it either. Oh and I am Ex Navy and dont remember making Extra Loot????? My dad is Army Retired and my family was not rich and my brother is Navy Now and not making alot. I was pretty much broke... Still he just wanted to talk about an idea guys cut him some slack.

I like Original so if I read someone else with this idea I will help bash them lol !!!!
Anything is possible there is a guy here in Springfield with a dodge neon with a viper engine. hey if you got the money do what you want thats the great thing about our country its a free one spend your cash the way you want. But I dont know how happy you will be when done but hey it's your money. If I had the cash I would turn my celi into a RWD or AWD.
Great Aint it!!!
JSPITZ said:
Anything is possible there is a guy here in Springfield with a dodge neon with a viper engine. hey if you got the money do what you want thats the great thing about our country its a free one spend your cash the way you want. But I dont know how happy you will be when done but hey it's your money. If I had the cash I would turn my celi into a RWD or AWD.
Yea the guy down the street from me has a corvette engine in his s10. Thats scary.


End of thread is unless you have any decent info to add leave your dumbass opinions and flaming alone, he's new and doesn't need your crap when he's trying to learn.
Inspiration goes a long way. =) Good luck! And no im not being sarcastic. Go for it if you have the time and money.
Id say about 100k and about a year worths of work
LightningRod said:
How did I not see this thread? :laugh:
Same. How the hell did I miss this? This is the n00b thread of the week.
lol some of u guys are jerks he was just trying to post a conversation.

anyways, im pretty sure i heard of someone making an AWD 7thGen. It was one of the big modification companies. This is just the next step up, he was just bringing up an idea to talk about...
usually when u do an engine swap u stick with the same car make
and u cant forget 2 get the lambo door conversion
if you through a v12 turbo in a celica..

it would rip the **** ouf the everything..

the torque would rip the **** out of everything.. your celica would be ruined.

with a bad a idea.

and if you had the money to replace everything in the celica.. it would no longer BE a celica..

but a poser lambo
thats why we watch movies..

because they arnt realistic.

if you want to watch something realistic.. then stand in front of the mirror for 2 hours..

now wich is more exiting to a crowd of 50 people.

F & F is actually quite good at represtenting sport compact cars.
futrbullownr said:
this is not the forum to start a joke unless your post count is pushing 10k.

and billzster, the exige and elise run a modified 2zz cranking 190hp. the cheapest way to those speeds and agility is a C6 Z06.
I'd argue its a used 911
Urbanek said:
I am joining the military after I finish school and I hear that soldiers can make some good money so I was just planning to save up for a better car.

I started this to have fun and just hear other people opinions. I like the fantasy of completely rebuilding the Celica from the inside. So then you can get a high powered engine, have rear-wheel drive for drifting and getting more traction by having wider wheels, and have all the wieght on the rear wheels so they can bite the road better. So then if you had the money you can go up against someone at a red light while you're in a Celica that looks completely stock from the outside and they're thinking "oh it's just another sportscar wannabe with under 200 hp I can easily beat them" then you just zoom off the line like a rocket and have nothing but a dust trail behind you. That, I think, would be the greatest thing to see.
vegeta4ss said:
all my military buddies around here have really nice cars. I mean the military pays you, and pays for pretty much everything so you end up with a lot of loot leftover. At least that's how they explain it to me.

the only thing I have against a rear engine celly is that you change the whole power/weight ratio, and the suspension geometry. I mean it may still look like a celly on the outside but with the motor in the back driving it will be a whole new experience. In addition, nobody makes drifting coilover sets for a celly.

If you DID actually do a crazy custom job like this though, you would be the first to pull it off. So maybe once that military money starts rolling in you can decide what you want your celly to be.
What branch of the military are you planning on joining. Honestly, if that's all that they told you about being in the service, you got the service all wrong. You always start from the bottom and work your way up. Most guys don't make anything until they pick up some rank and do their time. If you're fortunate but not really so fortunate, then you'll go where we all been. Go to Iraq or Afganistan, do your 6-7 month or 1 year tour and come back with that heap of money. But like I said, you got to do the time bro.

Anyways, the way that you talk about rear-wheel drive and all that drifting stuff. Honestly, you sound like one of those FF-Tokyo Drift wanna be's!!! Celicas are Celicas for a reason and if you think that the only way to beat someone on a run is via a RWD Celica, then you obviously don't need to be driving a Celica in the first place.
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