aw11 4age

[rb27dett]

hey everyone i have scrapped the ca18 idea for legal reasons and i have sourced a 4age from an aw11 mr2 , i need to know if i can use a remote thermostat housing like people do on front wheel drive motors to convert it to rear wheel drive ? also if anyone has anything else to add about changing from mid mount to FR your help would be much appreciated. cheers :2thumbs:

[biggo]

same as fwd motor except for rear water outlet

[rb27dett]

cheers , so will i need the flat type rear water outlet still ?

[ae71]

i know that you can use fwd rear water outlet on rwd aplications, i dont know if this is diffrent from aw11

[rb27dett]

cool man i already knew that , but i'm pretty sure there's 2 types and one is no good with a remote themostat housing setup.
i was told to use an ae82 flat type one , i guess i'll find out which one it has when i go check out the motor
i have another option : a jdm 4age with everything except the loom and ecu , can i use a front wheel drive loom on the jdm motor ?

[driftism]

You will need to change or modify the rear outlet on the head, the MR2 one sticks out straight and hits the firewall, but either a FWD or RWD one will work fine.

And yes, you can use a FWD loom with any motor, so long as it is a bigport 4age.

[ae71]

a FWD loom it too short and needs to be lengthened, or is can be mounted in the engien bay but i would really not recomend this due to the heat and the shit that flys around in there (water, oil, fuel etc...)

[rb27dett]

cheers for the help . :2thumbs:

[v-tec]

Hey mate i use a aw mr2 motor, pretty sure its just the same. Just got a remote therrmistat, and i dont think loom is any different. One thing tho is the timing is set up alot different on the aw motors to standard bigport

[biggo]

loom itself is fine only certain parts ie sensors need lengthing

and yes the timing is slightly different