Won’t go so far to say the first but haven’t seen another yet.
Phase 1. Rav4 GT
Most people have put away their babies with the pending salt and snow in a month or two.
So my buddy & mech made this for himself to knock about it for those few months.
Being a pro nissan and mitsu-AWD I must confess toyota did it right with the 3S and the platform familiarities.
Location: GTA, Canada
Owner, builder: Riyad Baksh
Saw a swap like this on the mr2 boards. Prime performance in NJ put a gen 3 or 4 in theirs. Cant remember, but it was bad ass.
Edit: found it
http://www.mr2.com/forums/threads/93232-Prime-Performance-goes-to-town-on-a-Rav4-1-GEN4-3sgte!
The gen 4 3sgte was only availiable in a limited number of Caldinas in Japan only.
Hey thanks for that. I’ll check it out when I get home. This was also out a caldina wagon. Low is and 5spd with center LSD.
This is phase 1 and really intended to be a fun daily. Because of the Canadian requirement of yr 2000 vehicles to be obd compliant swaps in a newer year are not happening anymore.
haha sweet project.