[bondvagabond]

They sure are, and with a suicide knob on the steering wheel the lack of power steering doesn't bother me.

So I will be meeting up with my pops tomorrow, I have a good running beater ranger, and he has a good running beater metro, I will see if he will swap me, so I can do the metro swap into the nice 71 toyota body.

I'm really torn with which one to do. The ford is a more long lived engine, I would not have to source a different tranny, since it is already a 5 speed rear wheel drive, the geo I would have to find a samurai tranny to swap it from front wheel drive to rear wheel drive. it would pretty much be motor mounts, driveshaft, crossmember, and clutch pedal would be all the fabricating.

The toyota weighs 450lbs more than a stock geo metro. But that is with an iron motor and an iron tranny, big iron radiator. If I swap to the metro/samurai drivetrain, I think that will get me pretty close to the geo metro base weight. As long as I watch my gear ratios, I should have plenty of power. I wouldn't have a freebie gauge for the metro motor, but I have a scangauge I could probably swap someone on here for an mpquino.