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My latest project sussing out how hard it is to get a ke20 front end in it and then 4age...

Bit more progress ????

Soon plans kinda changed now and I aquired this...among other things for my 2 other orange ketos

Not sure haha Ange got her road liscence today so I'm sure the track bug will bite soon and this thing will cop another flogging haha

The 92 has been handed over to my partner to some track time unde her belt now that iv finished building my latest big bag orange e7 ????

Getting close now ????

Extractors arrived yeeeewwww!

Keep forgetting about the m.i.n.t filter haha

overrated wagon mate paint looks great well done!

brought an ebay spec alloy rad and a lightened billet harmonic ballencer for her and also braided clutch line and 2nz coils. waiting on extractors to turn up now...getting closer

Haha just to prove my head fits In a helmet...

For those of you that don't know me personally I not so long ago picked up a cheap ae92 (or Holden nova) as a daily for my partner but after some discussion we decided that we would wait to get something abit newer so after trying to sell it with no luck and my ke70 track car being nowhere near completed I decided to turn it into a budget circuit racer to keep me amused till my ke70 was done and then pass it on to my partner to get her out on the track.. It was quite sad and run down with 300,000+ kms on the clock filthy interior stocko 13" steelies and more water leaks than a sivve.. So after replacing the water pump, welch plugs, hoses and a badly corroded thermostat housing (and butchered thermostat) and getting some genuine coolant from work it didn't leak a drop.. I then moved on to the service side of things and replaced the timing belt wich was about ready to snap aswell as the power steering and alternater belts.. Then oil, filter and spark plugs. By now it was running quite well and the inside of the engine wasn't as bad as I anticipated when I removed the rocker cover to replace the gasket.. The exhaust manifold was cracked so gave me an excuse to buy some extractors for it and a fully hektik pod filter also got the nod to try help it breath better. With all that out of the way I turned to making it lighter with all unnessary items being turfed such as the entire aircon system back seats console roof lining and associated plastic trims then because I wouldn't have a clue were to get dry ice from I chiseled the sound deadener out aswell. Then decided that the drone from the exhaust would get rather irritating over long period of time so a road sign was measured and cut up to fill the void were the back seat used to seal off the boot. Moving on from the weight reduction it was time for suspension. The rh driveshaft was stuffed so a trip to the wreckers scored me a recod shaft so that went in and then out came the struts for some predders lowered springs and then some camber bolts. Luckily enough I had some multi fit wheels on my ke70 with new tyres so they got thrown on aswell.. And viola el cheapo race car... I took it to It's first outing at sandown (John Mott memorial) last weekend and managed to run a 1:43 whilst boiling the brake fluid and melting the pads and killing the clutch other than that it held up the whole day of thrashing. So now it's time for series 2 front disks and callipers convert the rear to disk and fit a front sway bar from the higher up sx model and fit a new clutch and se how it goes!

Don't se these to often pretty cool! Keen to se some updates!

Well I've been busy building 2 big bad orange ke70s but managed to get the 20 in and started plumbing things up and working out wiring :)

How did you go about fitting the t engine on the first place? Engine mounts etc?

Going n/a now? Still goin 5k?

ooohhhhh shiney =D

I'm thinking after seing youve started a thread for BT i might start one for the battle wagoon lol..

Looks pretty tidy for a slap job lol nice one

Cheers mate still a long way to go lol

Just going to leave this here... So effing keen =D

How much you sell it for..?

Sick van! so your happy to recommend shock works stuff?

Quite an unsuspecting little rocket you should have now I like it!

sumerdays and engine bays!