Engineering and roadworthy are starting to loom in the background as progress on my ke25 is being progressful so I've been looking deeper into legal stuff lately.

 

So my 25 has no tyre placard and I'm looking for CONCRETE info on what the factory rim and tyre specs were. A few conflicting opinions have been seen around the interwebs...

 

A photo of the placard would be ideal and would settle any doubt!

 

Now to go one better, does anyone know what the te27 specs were? and even more so a photo of the te27 placard. You see I know a bloke who knows a bloke who can make replacement placards if provided with the correct informations...

Well so far I have these numbers:

 

ke25: +30p or +32p offset

4.5 or 4.0 width

12 inch rim

 

te27: +30p or +27p offset

5.5 or 5.0 width

13 inch rim

 

Thats it so far havent got it down yet but its a start

This is from a TE27

 

 

 

 

 

Edit: You get some made, you owe me one! I'll measure it if you like

Edited December 7, 201213 yr by parrot

You have a genuine 27 lev.... *long exhale-type noise*

At first I thought they were un-obtainium-level exy. Then I went and spent about as much on building a 25...

 

measurements would be useful I reckon.

 

I'm in the process of investigating te27 homologation in aus and tracking down papers. Only papers i've come across yet were illegible.

would make engineering a loooooooot easier and would allow a heap more headroom for upgrades having that base spec.

I have the four original rims and what look to be original-spec tyres. I should get measuring and see how mine compare. I'll see if I can find time on the weekend before work.

 

General early conclusion though is that there is no way to keep track to legal limits with non-lame offset. Especially not with a wider diff.

If you mean homologation for motorsport, I don't believe any TE27 2TG spec cars ever competed here in period. Homologation papers of course are international documents, but there doesn't seem to be any competition history for these cars in Australia. I wouldn't have thought homologation papers would hold any relevance with respect to engineering for road use.

 

I intend doing the AE86 strut front and a standard TE27 drum T series rear without ridiculously wide rims