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30 minutes ago, LittleRedSpirit said:
Try to find an engine and gearbox as a set to make it simpler, but there really is nothing that just bolts in except a 7k.
The 7k is not a "bolt in" conversion though, still requires sump or crossmember mods to fit.
The 5k is the biggest "bolt in" engine.
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Good to hear Matt.
You really need to up the comp now! 👍
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45 minutes ago, coln72 said:
The missus finally out of Hospital and into rehab.
One step closer......
That's awesome news Colin. All the best for a short stay..
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56 minutes ago, Taz_Rx said:
Back to 6 stud's again... Now to pick up were I left off 2 days ago!
Winning..
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Looking good mate!! Bring it north for a test and tune at heathcote park.
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What type of 5k? Mild, hot, boosted?
A mild 5k id go, 0.3mm on the top two rings(could run the second a touch tighter on a stock N/A) and oil ring rails 0.27-0.3mm. Never file the expander(zig zag ring)of a 3 piece oil ring it sets the tension.
Usual rule of thumb is 4 thousandths of an inch per inch of bore diameter. Plus more for boosted engines.
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19 minutes ago, coln72 said:
Once in never out (,rollerclub that is)
How true.
As Matt said good to hear on her being more stable. Hopefully not finding a source is a good sign too.
Thoughts and best wishes mate.
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It's not a legal conversion in the majority of states in Australia, so very few if any that are on here would have done it. I think it's going to be something that you will have to run a tape measure over both and work it out.
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On 10/25/2018 at 3:06 PM, kickn5k said:
The gym.....
Sorry, but the door was left open so I had too.
I'm with Dave, I'd drive the car first and see what it's like. My ke11 is really light but my 1600 is reasonably heavy at car park speeds(that's got something to do with the geometry and the massive lump FJ20 turbo).
Dave's hybrid type setup could be a good thing. I've also seen holden electric power steer, fitted it makes for a really neat engine bay(no pump). I also found a company in QLD that do a complete electric column that does speed sensitive adjustments. I'll dig up the link when I'm home.
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The gym.....
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Not to be a hater, but zip ties for holding battery wire instead of rubber insert p-clips and welding two plates under the battery when nutserts would be such a better option. Must be running out of cash.
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On 8/19/2018 at 8:23 AM, oh what a nissan feeling! said:
Cheers, tech is for the bracket of 10.5 to 8.5. Modern cars with 4 wheel disk and an airbag can go 10.0 without tech though. Parachute required at 140 mph so i won't need that for a little while yet.
Was thinking that would be the bracket that you were going for. Had no idea about the extra leniency on air bag cars though, good info to know. A mustang work sponsors, dipped a bit under that and he was surprised at how much more is needed for it.
God I'd love to see this with a split mono leaf setup, a VE head and 50psi from a gtx35!!! I'll stop trying to spend your money right now..
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This thing has been fun, for the $1600 investment. I'd just finished the water pump and cooling system fix, fixed the seats and general finish off a couple dayd before we headed out, on our annual fishing/camping week long trip to lake Eildon(over mid year schol hols). With no time to float/test everything, we decided that we'd take a punt and take it anyway, another mate has a 19ft half cab and could tow me if needed.
It dead set didn't miss a beat all week, started first kick every morning I went out trolling, which is saying something for a 39yr old outboard considering morning temps were below 3deg every day. It trolls great for a 115hp ski boat, I do have to use a render bucket I transformed into a "sea anchor" to slow it down a little at idle. But it got me to camp and more importantly was christened with three trout. I got two browns at 42 and 47cm and a mate nabbed a chunky 45cm rainbow.
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Looking sweet Matt, out of curiosity what et are you teching it for?
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Oh and been here too.
https://www.b24australia.org.au/home
Melbourne definitely is the place to be. Haha
Tyabb airshow tends to have a couple of war birds every year too.
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3 hours ago, Banjo said:
Hi Stuart,
Awesome picture ! Lucky you !
The one for sale & the one in the Railton racer above, were both R R Meteors.
If you are interested, here is the history of the Railton Racer above.
Enjoy !
Cheers Banjo
Very interested and thank you.
Yes very lucky, the general public is not usually allowed in the workshop. They had about 5(including the P51 motor) Merlins and 3 Allison's. Oh and that Mustang is actually airworthy too and still has the super rare self sealing fuel tank bladders. Those bladders are the only thing that they don't reproduce, yes with enough cash you can have a brand new P51 Mustang. I'll dig up more photos if you're interested?
Lol Graham Copeland owns the railton hey. Hey would just have a enough screws loose to pilot it too. Have you seen him drive the 260z in targa? They dominated the classic class for many years.
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IF it were a Merlin it would be more like $100k.
The Meteor is the inbred, highly athsmatic, half cousin to the Merlin. It may look somewhat like it but only make a third of the power. They were for tanks and made a measly 400-450hp with 1600ft/lb. Still cheap at $16k for a piece of WW2 history.
The president of the Nissan datsun car club is the head of maintenance at the point cook RAAF museum and I was lucky enough to see this being serviced. Interesting fact is you can buy almost everything brand new for a merlin from rousch performance in the states. Oh yeah a set of plugs will set you back $5k
And yes I'm a huge WW2 nerd!!
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On 6/18/2018 at 2:07 PM, Banjo said:
That's why I asked earlier in this thread, whether the boring out of the block, to fit the liners, ever broke through into the water jacket, in the area you are mentioning. I once read, that modified engines for 1/4 mile dashes, just fill up the water jackets with "Araldite", or something similar, to prevent the cylinder walls flexing, when they are bored to the limit, & become very thin.
Cheers Banjo
Sorry mate I thought I'd replied.
General consensus here, is if they broke through, you have 2 choices. First is send it to the srap metal guy and second is bore out until there is no bore and use "wet sleeves", same as what Keith was saying. A company like darton would be who you'd speak to, I've made a set at work years ago and I'd never, never do it again(the exorbitant price is well worth it). "Grout" or "Hard Block" is what you are thinking of, I wouldn't like to trust it not to move once operating. But it may work, I haven't been game enough to try.haha My problem is that I have 2 std bore 5k blocks to choose from so ill be fine for at least another 15 years or so.
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On 7/24/2018 at 8:04 PM, Big G said:
I can hardly believe the parts I have given away and the cars that I have let slip through my fingers. The Princess regularly berates me for my lack of forsight when I tell her about the good old days of now classic cars in their prime.
Tell me about it, for starters I've given away maybe 4 k50 gearboxes but that's just the start, I remember in the mid to late 90's helping a mate chop up 3 rough LC torana gtr's to build a mock up, I've also cut up a 1 of 100 310 pack, black over silver, VC sle commodore.
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On 7/24/2018 at 3:05 PM, Banjo said:
Hi Stuart,
I was very lucky ! My wife's very first car was a KE30. When I married her I inherited a/her Celica RA40, which we cruised all over Australia, until kids came along.
She currently has a late model Corolla, but strangely enough, when she goes shopping at the weekend, it's my KE30 that disappears from the driveway, for an hour or so.
P.S. I keep telling, to check I'm not under it, when she hops in it. (We have four Toyotas in our family)
Cheers Banjo
Yes definitely lucky.
Sorry wasn't hating, I'd actually pressed post before I finished. What I was meaning was they'll be advised it would be a good idea to sell for "insert reason here" and they'll list it for stupid money that they know it won't sell for. wife sees car for sale it makes her happy, you know happy wife, happy life sort of thing.
What I do find amusing is these cashed up bogans, buying rough, "survivor" A9X and L34 toranas for $350k!?!? I only know as a mate I've known for 30yrs old man bought that one from Lloyds recently. I don't get it.
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17 hours ago, parrot said:
Back in the mid late 80’s I could have bought a Nissan prince skyline GTB from my mate who had it sitting in his front yard for want of big end bearings. He didn’t want much for it, but I wasn’t exactly rolling in spare cash, and had nowhere to store it. The bloke who bought it broke it for parts. Was the original press car with a churn fill fuel tank for Bathurst. Wonder what that would be worth now.......
Prince skylines stagnated price wise about 8yr ago. 240k's and 1600's on the other hand have skyrocketed. I've got my 1600 for sale atm for $32k and it's had 4 offers in the first week. One was a zx12r bike motored s600 convertible that is stunning, a nice s14 and an 8sec vg30 turbo scorpion. I've had one cash offer of $23k which is a bit more than what it owes me but with so much interest I turned it down. 500hp 1600's sell for $28-35k. Hence it's for sale.
I think the other reason for the high prices is wifes/gfs telling the parter it's me or the car(happened to me twice thats why I'm single)
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On 6/16/2018 at 9:48 PM, rebuilder86 said:
Yeh i always thought 5k was just impossible to even rebore or do anything to because its just a 4k block with bores that are bigger and bigger pistons??? No???
All my suppliers sell .5,1.00 and 1.5mm(or .020, .040 and .060") oversize pistons. I also know of at least 5 83mm 5k engines getting around. So definitely can be bored.
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18 hours ago, rebuilder86 said:
I intend to take the block to a mob in cebu city to push the cylinder liners out and install new ones (involves heating and i have no oven), new D dish pistons, correct cylinder head, and new pushrods to suit.K motors don't have liners. The block is a 1 piece unit.
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On 5/25/2018 at 11:11 AM, Banjo said:
Venting the fuel tank to atmosphere hidden in the chassis rail, is not acceptable by any current environmental or emissions regulations. Anything was pretty much acceptable when KE20s were built.
A quick talk to a accredited compliance engineer, in your area, would put you on the right track.
Cheers Banjo
It only needs to adhere to the epa regs for year of manufacturer Banjo.
The California regs didn't come in until '74. Only two things that are needed are PCV recirc and noise. I had a look at the car today, it will be fine as it was. I run an early rocker cover with no pcv, it's vented to atmosphere and never gave me issues during rego and engineer cert.
Engine conversions. For a ignorant dude.
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The hilux diff from memory is still well within the ballpark(weight wise) of a commo/skyline borgy diff.
k50 aren't that bad mine is still chuggin along and that had 120rwkw and double the torque of taz's turbo car. But yeah the vast majority could do with a birthday. I may look into looking at one after I swap the turbo motor and either my W50 or an auto.
I've done 2 7k convos they really only need a small section cut from the sump or crossmember to clear and the mou ts just need about a 5mm slot cut to work. That was with a 2x and 3x though. I did here wispers a while ago from a prominent OG Rclub member that the sump or crossmember mod(either work) was not needed for the 7x chassis only mildly elongating the mounts as the blocks are a hair wider.