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Originally Posted by davezilla
Thanks for digging up my old thread. 
I didn't have many ref pics while building this kit besides the box art and a few blurry ones I found on Google. Maybe you can show me those pictures in question so I can fix those mistakes in the future. I'm planning on turning the Rally Japan 04 version into the '03 car, so any pics of that will be tremendously helpful as well.
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What prompted me to look a bit further into the 01/02 differences was when I looked at the front of the box. I then went back to my video of the 02 Coesica (I record every round of the WRC off cable) & that confirmed the different front end arrangement. Apart from that, refs have been pretty thin on the ground.
As to the WRC03, the most significant difference is the air vents on either side of the front spoiler - they don't exist on the 03 car. At 1st I tried plating them from behind & filling the hole - & then I found out there's a resin replacement made by Reji (IIRC) avail from MediaMix & not horribly expensive. The internal differences are:
*the little square box moulded on top of the transmission hump needs to be shaved off
*part C17 (fire bomb) sits behind the drivers seat
*part C1 (battery box) doesn't exist at all in that position
*part N15 (rear shelf) is completely wrong. it needs to be substituted with that part from the 01/02 car
*the remote damper cylinders moulded onto the rear of parts B24 &25 have to be removed
From memory I believe that's the extent of the mods. TMMI did a build of the Japan 04 car backdated to an 03 some time ago, which shows these mods. I'll dig it out tonight & let you know which issue it is so you can order the article from TMMI.
Shaun