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Thanks for the replies guys. Been flat out like always working on the KE55 but I have made some progress. I polished up the inlet plenum and I finally finished the exhaust. Here is a quick pic of the finished product. You probably won't be able to notice but I have custom 4 bolt flanges for the exhaust. One of a kind, (I hope). So anyway, will be doing plenty more on the car but I don't have a very long holiday so I just gotta do what I can. Will be keeping you all uodated with pics and info as usual.

Hey Mick, my girlfriend and I will be able to come, but. . . . . . . . . . . . .My KE55 won't be done. :P We will be driving our new KE70 beater. Sorry Mick, but I can almost guarantee it will be done before the next cruise. :D :'(

Also, I was wondering if anyone knows how many cores the Alloy Radiators have. I am sort of steering that way at the moment.

Oh ok, yeah, that makes sense. Well hopefully by doing what I am doing it will help that. Anyway, here are a couple more pics. I finally finished the air box, well, not completely but anyway its a good excuse to put pics up.

Thats cool thanks anyway man.

Hey Mick, just wondering if you could post up some pics of how your radiator sits in your car. I am finally looking at getting one. Thanks.

I'd love to mick, but I will tell you now, it was definitely not an easy job. There was a lot involved, and one extra job would be to pull apart your rear end.

Hey, so now I have completely finished the tunnel modifications. I fixed up that brace where the seatbelts bolt onto and made it a lot higher and welded it all back in. Seriously, once I put the underbosy sound deadener on nobody will tell. Here is some pics. This is the standard bracket. This is the finished modified bracket all welded and ready to go. And this is the job all done and welded back in. Looks standard as. :y:

This rolla is looking awesome. I know and feel your pain a lot with how you do something and then you find that it has caused a problem here or there and then you gotta fix that and this and the list goes on and on. I am still doing my 4AGE conversion to my KE55. I must agree with every one else and say that your attention to detail is not to be missed. Also I bet you are absolutely dying to get the beast on the road. Can't wait to see the little rolla driving. Not that I live in Queensland, but it will just be good to hear that it is finished.

Hey, how have things been going with your conversion. Hope things are coming along well.

What do you mean. In relation to what?

Good thinking, why not. Nah, I wish. If I were to do that my car would never be finished. I must say though, that is part the problem why it isn't done. Every time I finish one thing, I check this and check that and find out I need to do this and do that. It is never ending. Although I must say it is getting closer. At the moment my next job is to make some stainless steel you bolts for the diff and sort out the tailshaft. Is there a cruise in December. I am aiming to have it done for that if there is. I just can't wait to drive it. :jamie:

Oh and the underbody sound deadener smells when it is on fire. :) All painted and looking pretty. I will be putting new underbody sound deadener on all the bits that I have welded in, but that wont be untill I am completely finished all of this welding. Anyway, there is more to come so I will keep you all updated as I do more.

No more for the better. This is the structural brace. It is also a bolt on section for the seat belts, so it must be retained. ANd here is the new section welded in with extra clearance. The next best thing is that it does not interfere with the seat. The seat sits straight back on there with no hassles. Gotta love it when things run smoothly. :)

Once I finished that job I moved onto the next part. I only wanted to cut out the section of the transmission tunnel underneath the rear seat. This was the problem area as where the tailshaft bolted onto the diff is where it hit the floor. It only really hit when I got a decent bump on the road. BUT, I don't want it to happen at all. So out came this section too. This is a structural part of the trans tunnel so I will have to modify it yet keep strength aswell.

So, its been a while but the amount of work I have got done, I am quite happy with. Here is a bit of an update. So the big job that I had ahead of me was to make some extra clearances for the diff. Firstly I cut out the section which is right underneath the fuel tank to allow for extra room at the back of the diff centre housing. I welded in a new section that I rolled and it just leaves the perfect amount of room for the diff also without interfering with the fuel tank. Here is the section I cut out. And this is the job done and welded in. It may not look like it has given extra room but it most certainly has.

I would have to agree with KE Ping it real. I also am doing a 4age conversion to my car and every time I do something, another important thing pops up. Every time I give myself a finish date I never seem to meet it. So far I would have to say that my car has costed close to $5000, and I am nowhere near finished. If you are looking at doing an engine like the RB30, there will more than likely be more involved than what we are doing. Also, it will ruin the handling of your car. The front end will be heavy and it will feel very YUCK! ! ! ! Like most people have said, it matters what you want to use the car for.

I have two diffs. One from a skyline and one from a pintara. At the beginning of this thread there is a pic of the pintara diff where I chopped off all unnecessary brackets. The housing that you see now is still the pintara one, with the pintara 4.11 gear set, 28 spline limo and axles. Everything with those borg warners are pretty much interchangeable. That tag is standard ford falcon tag I think. I am not sure if it is custom.

Thanks for the advise on the radiator ideas guys. Anyway, again it has been a while since I last posted up on what I have done, but I have been progressing, but I have also begun to to do extra things that I never really planned to do. To begin with I have made a stainless steel muffler for the car. It is a straight through muffler with a polised stainless 3.5" dump pipe, that took me about 3 hrs to polish like that. So here are some pics. And, also by making the muffler myself, I will most definitely have no issues in hitting the leaf spring or anything like that. The next bit of really good news is that my diff is complete, shortened, I ended up going to 28spline axles(pretty much unbreakable for the N/A 4age) and a very tight brand new limo, brand new bearings, the whole lot ready to go. Very happy with the end product. I just gotta hurry up and finish the car so I can drive the car. Anyway, this next thing is something I didn't plan to do but nevertheless will prove to be a worthwhile task. I have decided to partially notch a few sections to allow for better ride quality and suspension travel. I cut out the brackets that the bump stops bolted onto. This is where the bump stops sit standard. This is the new bump stop bracket that I fabricated. And this where the new position of the bump stops is going to be. This has given a lot more clearance for the diff. The next part I will have to tackle is the rear section of the transmission tunnel. I will have to cut a section out and make a new part with extra clearance. So back to work I go. :yes:

Awesome, thanks heaps Adam. Gonna have a look at that for certain. ;) ;)

Hey guys, many good and wonderful things planned for this lil beast, just waitin on the money and time to fund the damn thing. Also, gotta wait until my car is finished, then we will attack her KE55.

Hey guys, just need some quick advice as to what radiator would be most suitable for my conversion. Thanks heaps for all the comments so far too. ;)

Hey Mick, I am pushing and pushing, and working sooooooo much overtime on my car, but I still got sooooooo much to do. It really sucks, butI can't guarantee it will be done or even on the road for september. But, nevertheless I don't want to look at the bad side, so, lets just pray. :dance:

Hey guys, it has been a while since I have posted cause I have been flat out. As you should know the engine is in my car with gearbox and a custom gearbox crossmember, so just to quickly update here are some pics. And here is the gearbox crossmember powdercoated. Now considering I have been flat out, I have actually got a fair bit done. I have finally completed my custom inlet manifold and I have also organised all the parts for my diff. So again here are some pics for you all to see. I sourced out the flange which is 13mm thick, so while I weld the manifold to the flange there will be less warping in the plate. I began by making the runners and they started out like this, the exact same shape as the port size and shape. I just simply made two halves (and I made plenty of these for the other sections of the runners) and then welded them together. I then cut the single length into 4 equal pieces and ground back the weld and sanded it to fit inside the flange. My plan was to taper out the ends of the runners to allow air flow easier into the head. So using the other extra halves that I made, I cut angles on them to start the taper. This is what they ended up like. I then cut some more aluminium to fit inside the gap and welded that up to completely produce the taper. I then made a plate to suit the end of the runners and cut out the holes with a plasma and then welded them on the insides to make a smoother flow of air once die grinded back. I also welded on the outside of the runners to ensure a whole seal and no leaks. Then I began making the inlet plenum, again with a taper which was smaller towards the back few cylinders. The reason behind this was because the throttle body is at the front of the plenum, which means the first two cylinders will be getting the air quicker than the back two, which therefore leads to the front two cylinders lean out. By tapering the plenum smaller towards the back the pressure increases at the back and evening out the amount of air going to all cylinders.