Wow junkyards are a god send

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_yukog@reddit

Nice Rav4 dude. Glad to see they’re still putting in work

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mynameisnickromel@reddit

Alright, so youre gonna tell you just grabbed those ratchet straps and drug that bitch outta there or what

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Bawx_of_chawclets@reddit (OP)

Every other way I tried to carry the engine I failed . I channeled my inner Dora the explorer and hoisted the engine up and wore it like a backpack

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tuftopubichair@reddit

Currently in Detroit can confirm all I see are engines. Not a damn motor in sight

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yeah... I know. Have visited the Motor City many times. In automotive contexts, the terms are often used interchangeably, but engines usually refer to combustion systems and motors to electric systems.

By definition: An engine is a machine that converts various forms of energy into mechanical force and motion, typically through combustion, while a motor is a device that transforms electrical energy into mechanical energy.

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TheNextKing3O6@reddit

Where do hydraulic motors fall into the equasion? Never have I heard them be called hydraulic engines.

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SamuraiJono@reddit

Sure, sure. Motor also means engine in a colloquial sense, it makes sense to correct people if it causes confusion. But if you talk about the motor in your car, nobody thinks of anything other than the engine. Therefore, there's zero reason to correct people. Language evolves, it's fine.

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prairie-man@reddit

ummmm... no. you simply repeated what I already stated. you are wrong. for anyone who has spent time, much less a career in this field; appreciation for the distinction is not trivial. engines are engines and motors are motors and they are fundamentally different. being lazy with language is not an excuse.

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ninjaMan98@reddit

sorry to break it to ya buddy, i thought the same thing for a while as well.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/motor

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devandroid99@reddit

Yes, but "the" motor refers to the engine.

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SamuraiJono@reddit

All evidence to the contrary, considering every tech I've ever worked with says motor and engine interchangeably. It matters to YOU, it doesn't matter in general. It's a colloquialism, full stop.

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Takjack@reddit

Same same

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Bawx_of_chawclets@reddit (OP)

Where are we going? To Swap City

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ShaggysGTI@reddit

At my local lot, the yard cart is $5, but you can usually just pull your engine to a row, strap a seat belt to it, and wave down one of the forks that are running around.

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RedditTTIfan@reddit

Yes but usually--at least most I've seen--don't entertain letting you do this on the "free parts days". Essentially you pay an admission fee (OP's case was $89) and then you can go in the u-pick yard and "whatever you can carry" is covered by the admission fee.

Stuff like two/multi-man carry, using carts, trolleys, etc., none of that stuff is not permitted (you'd have to pay the full price for the engine if you did). Some places don't even allow straps or only allow so many straps to be used

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ShaggysGTI@reddit

Yeah my lot doesn’t do anything like that, just $2 to get in and everything is already listed price wise. I’ve been to a “$40 anything that fits your barrow” day, that was profitable.

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wuppedbutter@reddit

"Can you say 'mo-tor'?... LOUDER!"

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Shot_Investigator735@reddit

Seems like a good day to bring your 'big' friend to the junkyard and treat them to all you can eat afterwards.

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Back6door9man@reddit

Lol I immediately thought about my friend that's a power lifter and loves a challenge almost as much as he loves food. "Hey man you just squatted like 900lbs the other day right? I'll buy you lunch if you come hoss the shit out of this engine for me"

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Sir_Bud_44@reddit

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Rastapunzel@reddit

Dazza the exploder

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Marshall_Lawson@reddit

Doyle the Explerer

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Ziggysan@reddit

Hahahahahahahahaha!

Missing the beer belly, but this is fucking GOLD!

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Albertu95@reddit

I love it

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Hoovooloo42@reddit

I am in this picture and I don't like it.

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Ziggysan@reddit

Hoik it to the max, fellow fuckedbackist!

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Great_Income4559@reddit

That’s badass but in 10 years you’ll hate yourself for it lol

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strongsilenttypos@reddit

Backpack backpack!

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SuperSeriouslessly@reddit

Now that is how you project car!

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Funny-Noise5859@reddit

Yes sir that’s how I carry my doors the junkyard sometimes it’s a long walk and it sucks so at least you made a good makeshift backpack

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Tehgreatbrownie@reddit

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CrazyErniesUsedCars@reddit

fuckin hell man that's awesome

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Captain3leg-s@reddit

Dude you're a fuckin stud! Cheers mate 🥂

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Ok_Employee9638@reddit

I hold the record at my local gym for back squat 1RM and all this time I could've been using this useless farmboy strength for cheap engines.. damnit.

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Navi_Professor@reddit

how uh......hows your back???? and knees.....

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Glittering-Dare-5205@reddit

I consider myself somewhat of a junkyard connoisseur so please don't take this lightly: You are a legend.

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BoardButcherer@reddit

I just used this photo in another sub yesterday.

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st96badboy@reddit

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Hermitcraft7@reddit

You can turn off image attributions btw

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molniya@reddit

HOLY SHIT THANK YOU

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alarumba@reddit

Shit. Good to know, thank you.

I miss third party apps...

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BoardButcherer@reddit

I didn't grab it, it's a photo I remembered from years ago and I just googled it back up a couple weeks ago because, as seen, it has been highly relevant lately.

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Big_Gouf@reddit

Bro got a whole ass engine for $89. You summon whatever primal rage beast strength you need to get it done.

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weirdbutinagoodway@reddit

His future medical bills will make it the most expensive engine he ever bought.

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Big_Gouf@reddit

It's only about 200-250 lbs, not really that much 😂

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BidensBDSMBurner@reddit

When I was huge that's how I got my EJ into the machine shop to get redone after the inevitable explosion. The guy was like holy shit man we have a cart

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BidensBDSMBurner@reddit

To note readers, I could deadlift low 500's, a stripped EJ25 is 400 ish - it's not like a Chevy engine but the look of shock on the dudes face I'll never forget

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Bawx_of_chawclets@reddit (OP)

Im laughing hella hard at this rn Im going back today to pull a ej25 hurt and all.

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FesteringNeonDistrac@reddit

Yeah but an EJ isn't just about the weight. She's a wide bitch, which makes it awkward as fuck.

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justin_memer@reddit

The stupidity in this picture is breathtaking. So lucky that engine didn't turn OP into paste in an accident.

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ConsistentType4371@reddit

Lmao THATS your criticism? Find a new hobby lol

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Funny-Noise5859@reddit

Nah he’s just built different

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YouAreSoul@reddit

They have many auto parts.

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Own-Buffalo1445@reddit

Engine engine engine engine in my factory.

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Tall_Category_304@reddit

If you need a engine you can come to me 🎶

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John7oliver@reddit

Fakatree

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Architech__@reddit

They are very complete.

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John7oliver@reddit

Very beautiful

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John7oliver@reddit

Auto parts Tina 🔥

WELCOME TO CHINA!

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Good_With_Tools@reddit

I get that reference. Are you also a fan of r/crappymusic?

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RedditTTIfan@reddit

For those wondering, according to a google search, these weigh somewhere around 300lbs which I presume is empty/dry weight. Nice work OP!

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Mathberis@reddit

Luckily your project car doesn't have a V8

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jbjhill@reddit

(You might know this, but wanted to throw it out there). That motor is the notorious oil chugger: “The 2AZ-FE engine in the 2007-2009 Camry and 2006-2009 Rav4 may burn excessive oil and is involved in a lawsuit.”

There’s a specific VIN range effected. I think the ToyotaNation forum had the info. My 2006 RAV4 was one, and after it threw the rods and generally chewed itself up, I had to get a new engine.

Caveat emptor and all that.

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WorldlinessTrue6249@reddit

I did this same thing for my ej253 that I never ended up using. Me and my buddy went cause I needed a motor and he wanted to shop around for s10 parts. Ended up walking out of there with the ej, a spare set of taillights, and a valve cover for decoration all for 80 and change

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dabluebunny@reddit

I went with my buddy who does rock crawling and I think I carried like seven or eight drive shafts for him. I think it was only $35 at that time. We also seen four guys grab like three motors and two transmissions and they put it in a pop in bedliner and they each grabbed a corner.

So they got all that for $140. The only rule was that you had to carry it and it couldn't touch the ground between the cones.

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bluecheeto13@reddit

Had one of these a while back at my local Pick-N-Pull. Me and my buddy got a rear axle out of a 1 ton Dmax and then went back after transporting that to get the front axle. 100° outside that shit is not easy

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BESTish@reddit

I’m sure you know and it was auto correct. But if not. That’s a 2AR*** not a 2AZ

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Bawx_of_chawclets@reddit (OP)

This lil 2ar is going in the same car it’s sitting in a 1997 Toyota rav4 . I wanted to put it in my old recently sold sw20 93 mr2 .I couldn’t find affordable parts . Truly one is none and two is one. I would need two mr2 to finish a build. maybe the name gave it away.

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BESTish@reddit

Neat!

I am 1ar/2ar man. Thus why I picked it out just from that intake surface.

2 2ar long blocks and a 1ar short block in the box. For various projects.

If you don’t know already Frankenstein Motorworks makes cams that REALLY wake these motors up. Lets those HUGE ports and HUGE valves flow properly.

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Bawx_of_chawclets@reddit (OP)

I just started getting 1ar 2ar world . The factory stroker motors you can build with mix the cherry on top. I love to have a 1ar natural form I just got to find 1 hopefully first some how some way.

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BESTish@reddit

They’re fairly rare. Keep an eye out for Venzas in junkyards. Much more likely to find a 1ar in one of them than a Sienna that they also came in.

My short block is from a Toyota dealer. It’s a warranty oil burning one (free). No visible scores in cylinders. Was told it wasn’t burning bad they moved a car into CPO used and wanted to take care of oil burning first.

Mine is going into an AutoX car anyway, so I don’t care as long as compression is good. I’m replacing pistons with high compression ones. So it’ll get all new rings anyway. Cams. Then I’m expecting like 250-280 at the wheels on pump gas NA. I don’t really know so it’s a guess.

1ar/2ar is the Toyota k series. People just don’t really know it yet. A 2ar push above 230 wheel with just the cams.

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FesteringNeonDistrac@reddit

Do they bolt up to or have adapters for RWD applications? I'm not really a Toyota guy, but I'm definitely intrigued by this.

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BESTish@reddit

Production or aftermarket supported? No. Not that I’ve heard of. Has it been done? Yes. Yes it has

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Jamaican_Dynamite@reddit

About time people starting tearing into these more. Only took them long enough.

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Funny-Noise5859@reddit

Dam why did those engines have such big ports for the stock oem hp they were pushing

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BESTish@reddit

I’d have to ask an engineer. I’m guessing it might help fuel atomization. I’m guessing it might be the case is because this is the first engine Toyota made with extensions on the fuel injectors. It extends into and sprays the fuel directly in the middle of the port. Why it needed larger than average valves too? Idk.

But it’s I think a big reason why Marc over at Frankenstein Motorworks started experimenting with them in the first place.

But a stock 160ish wheel through a manual transmission is a crime conidering those “street” cams out it towards 230 wheel

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BESTish@reddit

And I’m working on blowing this thing up to put an AR in this one too.

So many ARs lol.

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GreenGhostBravo@reddit

I've been to sales like that, but usually go a day or two before to see where other people stashed what they were in planning on buying. The days of finding B series parts is long gone though

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Crazy_Ad_91@reddit

Finding stashes was pretty funny to me as a teenager when scrounging for parts for whatever clunker I was in. Was joking about it with a buddy of mine when checking out with a couple of side mirrors for a Ram D150. Junkyard worker got a very serious face and told us to watch our backs because the wrong person would react badly to finding their stash messed with. I never did but I always remember that interaction.

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stratosmacker@reddit

Oof yeah I was just lamenting this. Gotta buy em on marketplace in bulk or straight from Japan. And forget about Vtec

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animousfly30@reddit

* Awesome man. I took my 4.8 motor out of my yellow truck and slammed it in the 4 door s10. Hopefully it'll look way better as soon as I finish my shit up

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marokyle87@reddit

That’s not a 2azfe…..

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Bawx_of_chawclets@reddit (OP)

It’s a 2arfe but I auto correct did changed it.

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beginnerasiancoder@reddit

For a second i was like wtf is a molle rucksack doing over there?

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Sethrymir@reddit

Several years ago I needed an alternator for my Mazda GLC. I found this salvage yard in the country and it was a “pull it yourself” kind of place— the price for an alternator that you pulled yourself was $25, which was awesome because a new one I think was going to run like 250.

When I showed up there, there were these two fat guys wearing overalls with no shirts, sitting at a card table with a cigar box in a barn.

A couple of years later, I needed a part and so I went straight there, knowing the prices and selection were great.

When I got there the entire salvage yard was gone – – not a car was left. Only the house and barn remained.

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Impossibleshitwomper@reddit

What car still had a 2azfe in 2015?

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AdRelevant1390@reddit

whatcha working on?

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Bawx_of_chawclets@reddit (OP)

1997 rav4 2ar-fe swap

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AdRelevant1390@reddit

nice! offroad? tuned?

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AdRelevant1390@reddit

tuner* my apologies

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BackgroundRecipe3164@reddit

How much did this weigh? Is it like superhuman strength or just like moving an old person?

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bluenosesutherland@reddit

google says that engine is 300+/- pounds

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CricketExact899@reddit

Like an overweight old person; 267lbs to be exact. Also, thats 267 pointy, jagged, metallic pounds, so factor in +10% for that lol.

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BigPimpin91@reddit

Them metallic pounds do hit way different compared to people pounds.

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bluenosesutherland@reddit

300 pound haul… Should have had someone video that.

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discussatron@reddit

Makes me wistful for the 80s and 90s when the yards were full of the 60s cars I was driving.

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Organic_South8865@reddit

It's actually crazy how expensive junkyards have become. I tried to get a few parts and they wanted maybe $10 less than they would be just buying the parts new. It was insane.

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pele4096@reddit

You've got to find the right one. I'm in the DC area. There's a chain called Brandywine in Maryland that usually sells parts for just shy of new...

If they ask what kinda car it is for, the scrapyard is not a good one

A good yard has a price list...

Tail light assembly: $35

Engine: $400 with $100 core

Whatever.

Doesn't matter if it's from a Hyundai or a Hummer.

Crappy yards will price different cars at different amounts.

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pele4096@reddit

All you can carry days at the scrapyard are a godsend to Dorito bros.

Rotary engines are light as fuck. The number I've carried out are in the dozens.

Sadly, haven't seen an RX-7 in the yard for a LONG time and I've gotta switch up to RX-8s now.

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classicvincent@reddit

I watched a big redneck carry a Honda B-series engine with a seatbelt to the checkout at “all you can carry” day. That yard has overhead hoists so he used a chain hoist to pull it but had to carry it to get it for $75.

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Duncan9225@reddit

This is great to know I can fit a whole motor in the back of my 1st gen Rav4 now lol

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ServingTheMaster@reddit

"wow hobby car builders are a God send" -junkyard maybe

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Z3B0@reddit

I feel like they weren't very happy about a guy getting a whole ass engine for 89$, and thought they could sell it for more.

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Sandberg231984@reddit

How’s it look on the inside? Good luck

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Bawx_of_chawclets@reddit (OP)

I bored scooped it and dropped the oil pan before hand and it looks great . Turns over easy and has resistance on the compression stroke.

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CameronsTheName@reddit

Nice Rav mate. Loved my 2 door. It was lifted on all terrains and had a custom bullbar.

I can confirm, 3 Ford Barra engines can fit in the back of a 2 door 1st gen RAV4 if you stack them correctly. The old girl also hauled a set of Nissan Patrol diffs placed down in the passengers footwell and the other end up against the barn door window.

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