Keri, yes, you are quite right about the Celica 3SGTE engine being transverse.
My original plan of action with this project was to put a R5Turbo body (which is mostly GRP and aluminium) over an E30 sub-frame/floorpan/monocoque (whatever you call all the bottom bits) with a turbocharged M42 engine (no S14's locally I'm afraid, and a 6-pot would be just too big for an R5). However, with the R5 being such a small car I quickly realised that I would run into problems with the exhaust manifold colliding with the steering and brakes on a RHD car. I therefore opted to substitute a Japanese engine with the exhaust on the left.
Unfortunately, very few of the top-spec Jap cars are imported to South Africa. In fact, our Toyotas and Nissans are all locally made, so we have very little to choose from. I therefore opted to pickup a "Jap-Scrap" Toyota S3GTE engine. Jap-Scrap are what we call 2nd-hand engines and gearboxes imported to keep some local cars alive. For the most part these engines are picked up and thrown (unmodified) into all sorts of unroadworthy vehicles (No MOT in SA) just to keep them going for a few extra years. However, if you look carefully through these imported engines (shipped in by the container load) you can find some real gems that just don't belong in a burned out pick-up truck. When the Jap’s load the containers full of old engines they don't care whether they throw in an old NA 4AGE Corolla engine, or an ST205 3SGTE. Although the 3SGTE's are rare, if you look hard you can find them. There are also some very nice Subaru and Mitsubishi engines to be had. Of course, if these engines are to be used in any kind of performance application they have to be rebuilt and every component measured for tolerances. These engines can easily have done anything from 30,000km to 300,000km.
If I had considered the transverse AWD as an option I would not be able to obtain the AWD drive-train from a Celica locally, but in which case I would not have been able to use the suspension, sub-frames and drive-train from an E30, of which there are an abundance locally.
So yes, RWD it is, and 245 semi-slicks on the rear to try and keep some of that wheel-slip at bay.
Sorry Gunni, but I don't have any videos. To answer your question, I am a physicist - my speciality is combustion and detonation physics (which is occasionally why I go a bit overboard on this topic
) However, prior to studying physics I qualified as an engineer. I work here for the Landwards Science group where we develop new technology for military vehicles. I work mostly on the electronics side now as mechanical work seems to becoming less and less these days. Pity.
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. While you lot up north were suffering snow blindness I was getting a tan (and probably skin cancer). One of the perks of living in the Southern Hemisphere. But no worries, I'll be laughing on the other side of my face in six months time 
