The A6 Celica/Carina topic

[domi007]

Hello Everyone,

I'm really sorry for not reading through all the 72 pages of this topic and therefore probably asking things that were already answered before, please bear with me if possible
So, I have a TA60 that I just started converting to an AA63 (kind of). I'm on an OK budget, not really high, so here is the route I'm going to follow:
Obviusly the 2T-B will go, and the 4A-GE will find its new home in the engine bay . I'm going to change the bell housing on my T50 so it will fit the 4A-GE, also there will be some custom modification done so the different size of the input bearing doesn't cause any problems (the old one which will be used is 62 mm while the 4A bell housing is made for 68 mm). The rest of the car I'll try to keep untouched, except for the following:
-Hachi LSD will be installed (it should be compatible)
-Supra tank will be installed (to have the AC pump needed for the 4A-GE)
-Supra/Celica 2.0 cooling radiator (with 2 electric fans)

I know that means I'm going to use a 20 spline gearbox instead of the stronger 22 spline one, but I'm pretty sure that won't cause any problems.

Now my questions are the following:
-I won't have independent rear suspension, does that mean that I can use the disc breaks from the Hachi to convert my old rear drums to discs? My country's regulations are quite strict about this (to keep it short: to allow the 4A-GE inside car I need to have disc brakes on the rear too)
-Do you know anything about the sub-frame/engine cradle (I'm not sure what it is called, I hope it is understandable what I mean )? I read the following on a French forum (sorry for the quality, it is Google translated ):
"I made the measurements between the cradle of TA60 and that of the AA63, there are 3 cm diff and not 4.5 as I put on the position and angle of the cradle are not the same (ta 60 and AA63)"
I also asked one of my friends to translate it, she came up with something like "the angle of the cradle is not the same, but that doesn't really matter at all" however she couldn't make anything out of the 3 or 4,5 cm thing .

I wonder if you guys can clarify what this means, or tell me your own experiences if by any chance you have any.

- One last thing is the dashboard/cluster: is there any Celica cluster that has the oil pressure on it, and has the tachometer's red-zone at 8000 (7500 orange, and then red) and has only km/h on it, not mph?
As far as I can see the only cluster that satisfies these requirements the one found in the Japanese version of the car (maybe UK too), but it has the tachometer and the speedo switched (actually the whole cluster is mirrored, which for some reason bothers me):


Thank you so much, and sorry for the long post.
Domi