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7shades

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  1. Name: Eddie (named by the swedish backpacker I bought it off) Car:KE70 Motor & Driveline:Stock 4kc, judiciously flogged, with extractors. Soon to be CA18DET. (flame me... I can handle your slings and arrows...) Suspension & Brakes: Nice fresh rally suspension, rebuilt brakes. Wheels & Tyres: 14x6 Proper ridgey didge forged magnesium rally wheels... worth more than the car... wrapped in jap import snow/mud tyres. Work *almost* as well as proper rally tyres and only 25% the price. Interior: Blue and naaasty. does have factory tacho though, with ricey blue LEDs in it. Body:Relatively straight and rust free... few small dings from suicidal nocturnal wildlife and a big one on the drivers side fender from a helmet... thrown with extreme predudice and intent in a rare moment of unbridled hatred for all things automotive. I later apologised to the car and bought it some octane booster to prove how sorry I was. Other: I have several others... all awaiting engine transplants cos thats what I dig at the moment. Behold the chunkiness. They make a delightful roostertail of grass whence they encounter a nature strip...
  2. Yesterday I got inspired and decided to yank the engine out of my parts car so could get the 5 speed and anything else useful from it and cube the shell. Much to my amazement my other half wanted to lend a hand... so I gave her a phillips head and a 10mm socket and told her to remove whatever she could. Within half an hour she'd stripped all the light fittings, bezels and brackets and was keen to do more so I let her cut sick in the engine bay and another hour later she'd isolated the engine completely and we just dragged it out. She then proceeded to split the gearbox from the engine and we were done.... :P A few pics Cursing like a sailor at the heater hoses... Removing the shifter... Liberating the gearbox... Several fingernails were broken during the procedure. May their sacrifice be not in vain. Anyways I just thought I'd whack this up cos I've never had a girlfriend be even REMOTELY interested in my vehicular tinkering before so I reckon its pretty cool. She also likes it when I drive really fast and dangerously... which is a lot of the time, so thats also a good thing. So this post itsn't meant to be a girlfriend competition, but does anyone else have a partner that helps out gettin greasy bleeding knuckles like we do? It'd be nice to know there's more than one!
  3. Oh and yes... I do get looks when I'm cruisin. Mostly from girls with no teeth and misty-eyed flannel wearing farmers.
  4. The running gear is a bit of a secret... but I CAN tell you it does do wheelstands on the strip. (when there's a full esky on the trailer)
  5. Here's my ride on for the database Its phat.
  6. I'd hate to think she only likes me cos I have a big personality...
  7. I get looks... mostly at my girlfriend in the passenger seat... wondering why a pretty young girl is riding in an unpretty car with an even less pretty boyfriend... I cop it with a wry grin. :P
  8. heh... yeah I did it like 11 years ago... my supplier info may be a wee bit out of date methinks :P
  9. I currently have a wheel and boss from my old RA40 on my KE70... I'd say pretty certain, yes. :P
  10. yeah sorry... its actually a lot easier than I made it sound. its really just sticking two wires in a hole... :P come to think of it I think it may have been a Jaycar kit...
  11. I've done this to my old ke55... get one of the dickie smith kits, wire it up as per the instructions on the box (dead easy) They give you a little light bulb pre-wired in the kit... snip it off. Yank your dash facia out, there's a little box attached to it behind those lights for the h/brake, charge etc. Take it apart. Pick which light you want to be for your fuel light, and shove your snipped off wires into the little loom plug that goes into the back of the box, taking note of which loom pins correspond to pos and neg of the little push-in-and-turn light bulb socket. Then you just put another bulb in that socket and you're away. Oh yes... you can change those little transparent sections the light illuminates... find some other car like a KE70 with a factory fuel light and trim the plastic to the right size if you wanna go for a nice factory spec look.
  12. Hey... Found this today... didn't know which section to stick it in but I felt it needed to be shared. Apologies if its been posted a million times before... pity my noob-ness :lock_folder:
  13. So it is written... so it shall be done. Cheers for the info :lock_folder:
  14. Yeah the 2nd gen tercels were fulltime 4wd... this one is part time. there's a little lever in the centre console which engages the 4wd. its actually pretty cool... you don't need to slow down or stop, you just flick it down and she's in. I'm still investigating how it all works... in normal FWD it has an open front diff, but in 4wd it locks all 4 wheels... must have a locking centre diff in there somewhere... You'd be amazed the places I've taken the (newly named) "teenage mutant ninja tercel" :lock_folder:
  15. The only unknown as far as weakness goes should be the transfer case and cv's... the rear diff is straight out of the AE71 and its a permanant locker as its only engaged off road, so it should be fine... as for the front, cvs are cvs and my experience with the toyota product has been fairly positive. now if I can just work out how this wierdo transfer case thingy works...
  16. saw some video of a smart fortwo with a hayabusa engine it once... I'll see if I can track down a link the thing was a donut machine...
  17. I dunno man... I've given the thing a rather thorough punishing and it seems to be holding up quite well... Also I'm not really looking to get 13's on the strip with it, just that the 3A-C is pretty tired and I'd like just a little bite more poke. Also I have a 4ag sitting in the shed batting its eyelids at me seductively.... :lock_folder:
  18. aaah right... reminds me of the old days when I thought holden utes were cool... we just took the tailgate off for the "I'm going racing" look
  19. veto that... my mate's SS ute sucks juice like a fruit bat with the tonneau cover off... like 10 litres more per tank
  20. So... are you aware of any clearance/ layout difficulties associated with the 4wd drivetrain? Or in theory should it be just the same as dropping a 4AGE into an AE71...
  21. Yeah 4.5k sounds about right, I didn't have a tacho.... mind you it was a wagon. Not sure if they had different diff ratios.... prolly not. The engine was pretty toasted... Lot of gudgeon noise, rattling timing chain, wee bit of compression blow-by... still made it round the rest of the country though :) blessed be toyota. It was most likely the sustained high-rpm that was giving it the most grief.
  22. I have a R32 for going fast... I think I'd have to drop the kesev down a greased mineshaft to get 160 out of it
  23. I drove my last ke70 wagon from cairns to darwin on the stock 4 speed... I got the absolute roaring sh*ts with not being able to do over 120 on the stuart highway ( no speed limit :) )cos the valves were bouncing off the pistons and all the oil was being forced into the head and not back down again... I found a wreck with a T50 and swapped it over in a supermarket car park. I completely circumnavgated the continent on that trip... stocko 4kc with 450 odd thou on it. was getting about 600ks per tank.
  24. thanks for the warm welcome :) I'm glad this site exists... We don't really have much of a local support base up here for the venerable 'rolla... oddly, more skylines per capita than anywhere else in australia though. Even I have an R32gtst... but i can tell you it stays in the garage most of the time cos the rolla is just waaay too much fun! So... thanks to the mods for keeping the site running and thanks in advance to everyone who answers my inane questions as I stumble through the projects i have on the go. cheers
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