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Re: Turbo Rav4
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Wed, 16 February 2005 20:04
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Oh dear...  I believe I've covered this point more than a few times over different topics since Toymods has been here, but I'll re-itterate once again.
Anyone who modifies a RAV4 (no not just me, ANYONE) is looking to something a little bit different. You're not the only one who doesn't like the plastic 'bits' around the bumpers and side panels, and in fact it's largely why we can't get a hold of a bodykit for these cars. The only company that's taken the time to develop a bodykit for these cars (asides Toyota creating the "MAX" bodykit with a front lip, rounded sideskirts and a rear wing) is Bomex Aero, and these kits are rare as rocking horse shit and cost the earth to buy, then transport over here. It's enough to make you get some custom stuff done to get rid of the "plastic" look, which is why I have some stuff planned for it later on this year, all going well.
Check out http://www.lowsneakerz.net this is a webpage from the Jap's and what they can do to a RAV4. This front page explains it all.  Go into the members page. Unfortunately most of the stuff they have on their rides isn't available anywhere else in the world unless you physically go over to Japan and buy it yourself. Most Japanese places that provide aftermarket bits and pieces for the RAV4 either don't answer emails or don't speak/type in English.
It was designed to be a soft off-roader or the weekend getaway vehicle, hence why the plastic panels were put there so they'd be easy enough to replace if you damaged one of them while trying to mix it with the big boys amongst the rough-stuff. They still didn't factor in how much it would cost per panel to replace these pieces. The plastic areas are more expensive to replace than metal sheets.  I believe the 2001-2005 model RAV4's are a lot better looking than the 1994-2000 variant in that they've pissed off a lot of this plastic stuff in favour of metal, and they got with the program re colour-coding.
Regarding turbo'ing a RAV4, it's because it can be done and I'm not the first one to do so, and I sure won't be the last. A Russian friend of mine has done two of these (one a turbo 3S-FE, the other an SW20 rear-cut out of an MR-2, both to go into early-model RAV4's), a Swedish friend has just finished a very custom turbo kit for his 2.0L VVT-i version, a friend in Puerto Rico is making up a turbo 3S-FE, my mate in NZ has swapped a 3S-GE BEAMS engine (yes, N/A) into his RAV4 and he make a good hobby of spanking it around Pukekohe Circuit and beating the crap out of B4 Legacy's, and there's another couple of projects underway in the US, one is shaping up to be the mirror-image of my guts-and-all swap. The benefits of doing this is she can look at my project, ask me questions about mine if she gets stuck, refer to my pics of the project, etc. And yes, it's an ST205 half-cut from a Canadian All-Trac, 5-speed also.
If I didn't want to have the originality-factor, I'd have bought another car also, EldarO. 
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