Felix

hasn't got a leaky rear wheel cylinder?

go Teddy. i'd sell the car and put the additional 5 to 7 grand towards buying something better.

would chew the f@$k out of the outside edge of the tyres if you tried to corner hard.

looks alright, except for the gay looking gear knob.

how much is this 5k going to cost you?

save your money then. visual crap that doesn't aid a cars performance is just a waste of money in my view. doesn't add much to resale value. by all means, spend your money on decent suspension, tyres and worthwhile engine upgrades. these things actually make your car go faster, and make it more rewarding to drive.

i say save your money and put it towards buying a better car.

yup. i have a spark tester. the ke15 at idle was something like 25KV, and the ke16 30KV. the ke15 has bosch scorcher points dizzy, echlin gx80 coil, and jaycar HEI. the ke16 has 5k internal ignitor electronic dizzy, and bosch transformer coil. have been meaning to swap the ignition systems over one of these days.

actually, all the ignitor does is switch the coil, and set the dwell i think. the coil is what determines the spark strength.

well bypass the internal ignitor, and hook up an external one then.

the earlier flywheels have 2 dowels mating to the pressure plate. ke1x and ke2x have the same pressure plate. ke30 on had 3 dowels. they all have 6 bolts holding the pressure plate to the flywheel. you would have had to use the early K clutch disk, as it has a 16 tooth input spline to match the ke1x gearbox. most of ke20 onwards had a 19 tooth spline. yea, if you have the clutch disk in backwards, the clutch will not dissengage. you should still be able to turn the engine over with the box in neutral.

as Jamie said, 5k's have thinner bore walls. probably why the largest oversized pistons are 1.0mm, compared with a 3k/4k where you can get 1.5mm oversized. with thin bore walls, piston blowby becomes an issue.

that is one of the nicest ke35's i have seen in a long time. the taillight treatment looks real good. they normally don't have the black do they? the rims are different. probably suit a ke70 a little better being so angular, but look pretty darn good on it. way better than modern 17's. about the only things i would change would be to make the tacho and stereo blend in a little better. black faced. takes away a little from the period steering wheel. nice work. :thumbsup:

wire brush works ok, followed by a rinse in petrol or degreaser. hold the bolt by it's head in a vise. if the thread is stuffed find another bolt.

why did you put a 5k in your pulsar? =)

i like the Efijy. that is a pretty cool modern interpretation. really captures the spirit of the original.

this online manual might help you, until you get a paper version. i recently got a haynes manual, it is pretty good. they sell them at Big W for $40.

but it is all pretty much the same. i admit eminem is a bit more entertaining than most of the others, he's about the only one i don't mind. love the way he pisstakes everyone, including himself.

lol backdoor boys. they sing about having things inside them....their boyfriends perhaps. :lmao: i can't stand hip hop, or token rappers.

ke30's have positive camber standard. they were designed for crossply's if i remember correctly.

this thread is about 15 months old

i haven't got their album, but i like the singles i have heard.

i sort of think "possibly" your engine was played with before you got it. that said, who really knows??? not sure about america, but i do know the 4k-e's in new zealand had dished pistons. maybe someone at some stage did a rebuild and couldn't source the original type pistons and had to go to flat tops, with a head change??? i know in the ACL catalog there are no aftermarket dished pistons available, but there is a part number for the thinner rings they run. incidently the 5k, and 4k dished pistons run 1.5mm compression rings. all flat top pistons use 2mm compression rings. the dished piston 4k cylinder heads i have are identical to the 5k castings which also use dished pistons. i have had 3 dished 4k's now. they were all jap imports. the first i bought from an importers, it had a 4k-e sticker on the timing cover, but no manifolds. the piston on the right in the pic above came from it. i put 230,000 kays on that motor. the second i got from Bec's brother in law, who had bought an import motor for his ke20. it blew a head gasket and i acquired the car. it's piston is the D shaped one on the left in the pic. the casting number on the inside of the piston identified it as a 4k-u piston. the third engine i got from a guy i helped tidy up his yard.... the engine was in a ke30 which was a fresh import that they never finished hooking up. it was like new inside, and had the same pistons as the ones on the right in the pic. i gave that engine a cam and a few other tweaks and drove it for the three and a half years before my current 5k.

you must be close to having your piston tops hit your long reach spark plugs then. have you ever had the head off?

the long reach plugs are used because the combustion chamber is normally half set into the top of the piston in 4ke's.