[94Tracker]

Oh man "unstoppable"? Thats not good you want to be able to stop better don't you? Seriously I run winter tires so I can stop and handle better than "all season" tires. Didn't help my daughter the other day as she introduced her Echo's front bumper to the hitch of the truck in front of her. Minimal damage everyone fine.

Garth, we spoke when you were looking for your Rav, I had a 04 Chili for sale. Glad to see you have it on the road but you should have waited much longer to "modify" the body. I've had good experiences with Frontier's body shop too. Is Julie still managing it?
Glen

 

[94Tracker]

That wouldn't clear the transfer case unfortunately, the max was around 8" but you could build a tunnel to move the motor over if the motor were short enough, though I don't believe a Leaf motor is.

I've wanted to convert a Rav4 for years though I'd go twin motor for AWD but if I kept the trans I'd fit something like a VW GTE electric motor inside the bell housing in a water cooled housing, no clutch and probably only keep 2nd and 4th gear, reduce resistance etc in the gearbox. But there a fair bit of machining work.

cheers
Tyler

Thanks Electric Land Cruiser for posting the pictures. Now I know it's not too long and I can run reduction gears between the motor and transmission. Which will push the motor over enough to clear the transfer case. Thankfully I work in a shop with machining capability.

Tyler, removing unnecessary parts from transmission is possible? I was thinking that way also. As for motor choice the used EV selection is limited in Canada. We have only had Leaf and Tesla for any length of time, most of the others didn't have a presence here until recently. I want to use an existing EV system for reliability and hopefully simplicity. For the money I have to put into this I could have bought a compliance Rav4EV from California back in 2019, but no AWD. Current RavEV prices are ridiculous for a 10 year old car. But we don't do this for saving money do we, it's for the challenge.