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Re: 1999 Turbo RAV4 project...	Fri, 23 August 2002 16:13

Ok, finally I have pics to show you of the bashplate install and interior modifications I've made over the last couple of months. The bashplate installed is made of 3mm checkerplate and initially wouldn't fit where it is now, without modifying the plate a little. You can only just make it out, but where the red box outline is, the bashplate has been cut to facilitate the centre chassis rail. The pic's explanations say it all. The red arrow is for the front of the RAV4. The first time I've won a trophy for ANY car I've owned.... It was won at a recent Lismore car show sponsored by Summerland Sports and Classic Car Club. The first of more trophies to come?? Let's hope so.... A while back, some of you may remember that I was doing some mods to the interior of the RAV. To me the underside of the middle-console looks like something out of Terminator II. Never seeing the workings of a gear lever before, I was quite stunned that Toyota would leave a space like that so elaborate in it's function. At this time, the middle-console had been taken out to fit up an aluminium console surround. A local guy that specialises in interior mods came up with the idea that the aluminium surround could be made to fit the console, not vice-versa, like I first thought. He got out his little hand-held grinder and went to work on the aluminium, shaping it to fit the divot in the ash-tray (outlined in red), otherwise the surround may well not have fitted flush or at all. Some modifying to the sides, 5 counter-sunk stainless screws later and voila! The feature of the middle-console is fitted. A polish-up and she's ready to be refitted into the RAV, and the gearboot looking a darn sight smarter in grey leather. Accessories have come from Italy in the brands of SRacing and Isotta. To find out more info on these products and others, see www.primal.net.au website. Another of SRacing's products, the handbrake kit is a fair bit better looking than the stock heat-shrunk grip that Toyota put on. Made of chrome plate and grey leather, the handbrake kit slides over the handbrake, once the stock heatshrunk grip has been cut off. It fixes itself via 2 long grubscrews and the leather boot fits over the assembly, tucking under the middle-console once refitted. What you might want to do (to avoid all the squeaking of the leather handbrake boot rubbing against the black plastic flaps that are either side of the handbrake), is remove the flaps from under the middle-console. They are only held on by plastic pegs and easily remove. To keep with the aluminium/stainless/chrome theme of the interior so far, I also installed these alum pedals. Look pretty good with a bit of a rub with a cloth, and don't scratch easily either. And this is what the interior looks like now. Isotta chrome gearknob, SRacing handbrake cover kit, alum pedals and aluminium surround kit, about A$300 inc. GST & freight. One thing you don't see here is the alloy gearstick garnish that I had made up a week ago, and I've sent to another guy up north to get anodised. To go with the theme of the car, it will be purple anodised, as well as the dash-mounted external gauge cups (purple) and bezels (chrome). Hope you like the project so far. Let me know what you think of it. Cheers. [Report message to a moderator]

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