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Don't want bolt on flares. Hate the look of bolt ons. I was concedering doing weld on fronts but I'm going to work on these guards, they will get there eventually.

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Hey guys, it's been a few years since iv been on here. I sold my last ke70 about a year and a half ago and bought a r31 skyline. It was a great car but I got over the bigness of it and there's wasn't much else to do to it once I had finished with it. I sold it and started looking for a ke70. I was going to do a black top 4age conversion. I kept looking for sometime but couldn't find the right one, until a ae71 popped up. I went and had a look at it and was immaculate except for the rear guards and abit of rust around the boot seal. It had no rego and needed a blue slip. He wanted 2500 for it but got him down to $2100. I was pretty happy with the price concidering if I bought a Ke I still would of had to buy pedal box, cross members etc to do the 4age conversion. Anyway on the way home I found a silver top 4age for sale on gum tree for $800 and it was on the way home, I went and had a look at it and ended up picking the engine, loom, computer, clutch, flywheel, alternator and starter motor up for $500. I just chucked it in the back of my car and took it all home. I picked it up the next day in a trailer and got it home. I drove it down to my work the next day and dropped it off to get a blue slip. He failed me the first time just for the rust around the boot. I took it back to work and started to bog it the next night. I fixed it all up and took it back and he passed it. I took it back to work so I could work on it on a hoist. The whole next week I got to work on the rolla. I did the usual things like chopping the springs for the fully sick ride height and locked the diff for some sick skids. I found some ssr longchamps 14x8-0 for $600 for the pair. I bought them and wacked them on the front. Took it for a drive around the block and they scrubbed like crazy so I took the old hammer our and folded the front lips over. They also hit that sill bit on the back of the wheel arch so I flattened that to. Tool it for a drive again a presto, good as new. I had a old twin cam wheel off my old Ke I had so I put it on the new rolla. I was ment to get it regoed that week but I found out for a green slip plus rego was going to cost me at least $1100 and I just didn't have enough cash. I then had to wait till the next week for when I got payed. During the next week I decided while my silver top was sitting there doing nothing I'd pull it apart and get it blocked and skimmed for high comp, and do valve stem seals, and the lot to get the head as fresh as possible. While the head was off I thought hey why not just hone the block, put new rings on, and the whole lot to make the motor brand new. I'm going to put head studs in while also using a metal head gasket and studs for the bearing caps just incase I boost it later on. I then had a crazy plan, (which would cost me lots of money but be totally worth it) I'd get cams. Iv always used camtech stuff so I priced it up. I'm going to get some 276 cams along with all new valve springs and retainers..... $1350 later ill have some cams. To run this motor best as possible I'm going to get either a haltech sprint 500 or a haltech sport 1000, not to sure what I'm going to get yet. While I was at the crazy thinking I found a new fuel tank. It's a custom fuel tank but it is all made out of air craft grade aluminum and is all foam lined. It has a swirl pot so I won't need to run a surge tank. Ill be running e85 through it which means ill be going a Bosch 044 external fuel pump with braided lines all the way to the front and back. Ill mount it in the spare wheel we'll with the swirl pot out through the bottom. Anyway The day before I got payed some pretty dam outta this world gangsta wheels popped up and I couldn't resist. They are 14x9-27 mklll's. I thought about it and I came to the conclusion that I'd buy these wheels and get rego later. Think about it, no rego but iv got some gangster wheels ha ha. I picked up the wheels and test fitted them.............. They needed alooottt of guard work to get them pup dogs to fit under them guards. I took out old trusty hammer again and started on the guards. Shit this was, they were full of bog. I pondered on the though of doing front guards on rear for awhile but came to the conclusion that ill just keep working on the rears to get them to work. I had to cut out a section of the inner guard so I could pump the rear guards out. I test fitted them again and there pretty close. Just need I do abit more work on them and they will work, I took out the grinder again and rubbed it back to bare metal so I could see where I needed to work on. There going to look real nice once there done. And so I am here today telling this story. Ill try keep up on the updates cause it's going to be one hell of a build. I can't upload photos at the moment but I will tomorrow at work as I'm on my phone. Enjoy guys

hahahahahahahahaha classic

well got rid of my wheels on the weekend for 400 bucks and getting some new ones soon, stockies are on at the moment, was thinking of getting some rota rb wheels or xxr 002's... also got some 30mm wheel spacers coming can't wait for them. next weekend the plan is to get the sticky shit off my gaurd from were the stickers were, sand it back and respray it.

Just thought I'd add you can use ge or gh sigma control arms in ke70's

hey guys I'm getting a set of ge sigma lcas for my ke70 just wondering if i need anything else like tie rod ends or longer sater arms or anything? thanks

if anyone knows what else you have to do to put sigma control arms on like ball joints or tie rod ends? would be helpful cheers

Okay cool I'll try that out, Also got my hands on some sigma LCA's, also going to purchase myself some 30mm spacers which should look smick :)

so iv decided to take the sticker gaurd off, i started to take the stickers off... BUT it has that stupid sticky shit on it so i stopped, does anyone know how i can get this sticky shit off? also decieded to take my rear bar off.. something different? also going to get some new pipes, going to get some 2 and half inch pipes not upswept just have them come out a little bit from the rear of the car, hard to explain but will look good haha

i would of said go a vipec.. you said it was a v44 or something didnt you? did you have a look at the v88? i no there probably a little more expensive (retail at $2500) good choice anyway :) can tune vipecs really well.

yeah ill try get some better pictures, they were just off my phone. haha i hate those illest stickers the guy that i bought it off put it on but just never could really be bothered to take it off.. nah i sorta liked the sticker bombed gaurd when i got it but sorta getting over it.

i was thinking taking the stripes down the side off all together and maybe getting rid of the sticker gaurd.. it was cool when i got it but after a couple months sorta getting over it.

yeah it is, i don't mind it different from ever other ke70 front...

just added photos