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  1. Looks like we will make a panel beater out of you yet dude!!
  2. Thanks Alex and Paul, I'm back from holidays now and will be ripping into the car as much as work and the bank account will allow at this stage. First thing I decided to tackle once I got home was the brakes. Bending up the brake lines was something that I was a bit hesitant to start, because I wanted to do a really neat job and make sure everything was as aesthetic as possible, and as hidden as possible. Doing things like this is pretty easy at this stage though, cause I can just walk a few metres and have a look at Luke's car and see how he has done everything, and just either copy it, or tweak it a little bit to suit my OCD sensibilities. So, I am using coated steel brake line, and will be using mostly stainless steel fittings from Aeroflow and Proflow. I figure if everything else is going to be shiny, the brake lines and fittings should be as well.. The actual labour component of fitting the brake lines is probably the smallest part. It's the planning stage that really takes the time. Thinking about the best way to route it so it's hidden, avoids the engine bay, exhaust, and anything else that will squash or damage it. Bending up templates and finding that your initial ideas are no good any basically going back to the drawing board. I decided to make up templates from fencing wire first of all, so I wasn't wasting the steel line first up. I made up all of the templates and started bending up some of the lines before I ran out of time. I also made a pretty comprehensive sketch planning out all of the fittings and splitters etc that I will need for the system. It took a while and a lot of studying various parts catalogues, but I have my list of required gear now and will order it soon. I am looking at comparable prices for Aeroflow fittings and so far Rocket has been the cheapest surprisingly. If anyone has any recommendation of a good place to but stainless steel brake fittings please let me know. I haven't flared any of the lines yet, obviously need to wait for the fittings first. I also need to buy some more brake line because I didn't buy enough. Here are 2 flicks. The brake line in the middle has been bent up from the steel line and is one part of the back brake line. I pulled the brake line though a small hole drilled in a wooden block to straighten it before putting my bends in it.
  3. Haha, LittleRedSpirit you must have wondered what happened to me. I just dropped off the face of the earth for a while. I meant to give you a shout and catch up for a beer before I left Brisbane, but moving interstate got pretty nuts. Anyway, thanks for the kind words, about the car build and about the career. I am pretty happy with how things are working out, although there has been more focus on the career of late and none on the car. I am working to correct that and get this thing going and match it to the vision I have in my head. OrangeLJ, you're damn right about the pedal box. As soon as I had it in there, I had a dumb grin on my face which seemed somewhat unjustified. Seeing the stock accelerator pedal on it skinny little arm next to the big beefy machined aluminium tilton pedals had already got me thinking about machining up something to suit, and then getting it anodised black. The film project that I had aired on SBS recently was called RYOKOU. It's a 30 minute doco based on Australian World Champion track cyclist Shane Perkins, and how he travels to Japan each year to compete in the Keirin Track Racing league, which is essentially like horse racing or greyhounds, except with 9 guys on bikes on these brutal concrete velodromes. All combined with crazy Japanese culture and tradition. You can check it out in 5 online episodes here: youtube.com/chasingtheglory You can also see more of my work on my vimeo channel: vimeo.com/eldavros More car updates coming soon, but probably not as soon as I liked. After just getting started again, I am taking some much needed holidays for a couple of weeks.
  4. And I decided to get straight into it and tackle a pretty challenging project to kick off the work on this thing again. While I was still in Brisbane I started to mount the Tilton pedal box, but was hitting a few dead ends in regard to getting the pedals sitting in the right spot, and as close as possible to where the original factory pedals sat. It was something I was actually a bit hesitant to tackle, but once I stopped and thought about the process, it was actually quite easy. To start with, I made up a steel guide that mounted where the stock accelerator pedal mounted to the floor. The guide showed exactly where the pedals hung, and indicated the right height for the ball of my foot on each pedals, plus the spacing of the pedals in relation to the steering column. Once this was made up, I pulled the stock pedal box back out and took a good look at how it was mounted. I was originally planning on hanging the pedal box down from the brace underneath the dash, but was concerned it would give too much flex. Then I had the realisation that the original pedal box bolted up to the firewall anyway, in a double thickness section between drivers side the strengthening gusset. So, doing what was obvious all along, but I hadn't seen it, I made up a braket to hang the Tilton pedal box from the original mounting holes in the firewall. This way turned out to be the best, and the new bracket I made up turned out to be much lighter and simpler than the previous bracket I had been making years ago. It's amazing what a bit of time away from a project can do for your engineering brain. I am finding I have so many different approaches to things I had previously wanted to do with the car. I used the steel guide I had made up to position the pedals and determine the right height. It's tacked together now and bolted in place, will be fully welded and painted once I know it's there to stay and not in the way of anything else.
  5. After picking it up from the panel beaters a few weeks ago, it's not found a happy home in Luke's (drift freak) incredibly well equipped garage, alongside his beast of a KE11 Beams project. I have decided to keep it down the coast and not bring it back to Sydney, because my garage here in the rental flat isn't ideal for welding, grinding and making a lot of noise. Plus it's rad to be able to hang out with mates and work on the car. Here are a few flicks of the car post-panel beater. It's super smooth, but in all sorts of different paint until I get all of the mechanics done. While so much is getting done to the car, I've decided to change the colour completely as well. I've chosen a colour, and got a mate to mix up a sample pot. The colour is Ford Mercury Silver, with a small amount of coarse alloy fleck in it for a bit of sparkle, but not too much. My panel beater did a test spray on the inside of the front guard, and this is what is looks like:
  6. OK, I am digging this thread back up from the dead. It's been a pretty manic few years since this build was making good progress, and in that time I have moved back to Sydney, traveled half way around the world filming, had my first major film project screened on SBS and successfully transitioned to directing for film and TV. And, neglected the hell out of my KE10. So, that's all changing now, with the prompting and support of a few good mates. I finally bit the bullet and decided to outsource the last of the rust work, which was probably one of the best decisions I have made with the build so far, as it was getting out of hand with more and more discoveries. I am probably repeating previous posts from a couple of years back, but we found out that the car had actually been hit just behind the passenger C pillar, and had a whole new rear quarter (badly) stitched back on to it. The passenger door was hanging incorrectly, and a lot of re-aligning needed to be done. With my current commercial work rate, this all would have taken me forever to fix, and even though I am pretty decent with the TIG these days, I certainly ain't no panel beater. So, to cut a long story short, on Australia day this year we packed the car onto a trailer and shipped it down to Nowra to get the rust done. It's just come back, COMPLETELY RUST FREE and straight as an arrow. After watching my heart sink with every new rust discovery over the last few years I am absolutely stoked to see it back, and am really motivated to get the rest of the engineering and fitting underway. Here are a few random photos from the rust repairs. Chrome trims and badges have been shaved, door handles etc remain.
  7. Mate, good see to see you're back on the car. Hope little Jasper is getting used to the sound of the angle grinder! I'll give you Wayne's number if you want to outsource those rust repairs! Also will drop around the spare wheel well when I'm down next..
  8. Mate, have just read through your thread - wanted to say congratulations on the massive effort over a sustained period of time. Being a few years into my project, which sounds similar to yours in being riddled with rust and previous dodgy repairs, I'm inspired by your patience and the work you've put in. You've done a great job on the car and definitely deserve the 2012 Car of the year title. Look forward to seeing what you do with the car from here!
  9. Hey Luke, Have just read through your whole thread mate - nice work. Looks like you have been a busy boy. This is going to be an absolute weapon when it's finished. Would love to come down and check it out at some stage. If you need your trans tunnel welded up, maybe we can smash it out soon. Dave
  10. Wow, at least 6 months since I posted in this thread. Never fear - work is still continuing but has been delayed pretty heavily by the massive workload I have been under and the amount of projects I have been working on. Ended up getting my hands on a decent shell thanks to PMP16 (Joel). Have cut all of the bits I need out of it and am starting to cut and paste them into my KE10 body. Have been some more rust discoveries which is a bit disheartening, especially given how long it's taken me to get the current rust done. I am making some nice progress and doing some complex rebuilding and fabrication which I would never have imagined being able to do a few years ago. During all of this I have also relocated to Sydney, and managed to find a place with a decent garage relatively close to the city for work. I am still getting my garage sussed out (it's currently full of crap from the move) but as soon as it's all in order I will be ripping into the car... PIcs will follow..!
  11. Sweet I will do that for sure. It may be better to just send some pics with indication of the exact parts I need. I am in transit until next week friday, so I will get some pics up after that. If I was in Sydney I would definitely be hitting you up about that shell you may sell, but Sydney to Brisbane with a shell is a bit far..
  12. Hey Jordain, that shell sounds good, but I probably would be looking for something closer to Brissy. Unless of course you would be happy to cut sections out and post them up..:) How many projects have you got on the go? The rust and dodgy repairs I have found in mine is a pain in the ass, but not the end of the world. However, it does feel a bit criminal taking strip discs to what looked like perfect paint and panels.. The car will now be undergoing a major overhaul of the interior as well, because I have had to pull everything out to get to repairs. This means that the whole colour scheme will be changing too.
  13. Not a lot of updating to this thread, but work has been continuing. I am currently bogged down (no pun intended...) in some serious rust repairs that have been quite a surprise. As much as I have wanted to keep the car very intact and faithful to the car that I purchased, I have been forced to strip out the entire interior, take out all of the glass and go hunting for rust and dodgy repairs. Today we pushed the car out of the garage and hit it with strip discs and found some interesting stuff that will have to be added to the list in terms of work that needs to be done to the body. I took a bunch of pics of the worst areas, which I will post up this week. I wanted to be able to assess exactly what needs to be done to the body, and at this stage it's a lot! I will be hunting for a donor car, so if anyone out there has a decent Ke10 shell that they want to get rid of, hit me up. Pics of the latest work coming soon. There has been a lot of metal fabrication happening and a lot of welding. My TIG welding is getting pretty tight.
  14. No cutting at all anywhere in the process of getting the 4AGE in the engine bay. The front bonnet catch support can be completely removed by undoing a few bolts. Only cutting people do is to trans tunnel if fitting a bigger box, or to firewall to get the engine sitting back further in the engine bay... Jordain, as HIgh Roller said, POR 15 is the business. It brushes on but settles to a smooth glossy finish. You can even get a product that has metal particles in it which helps fill gaps and imperfections in the metal. It does add some bulk. it's not the thinnest stuff out there but for floorpans, inner guards, underbody etc its probably one of the best things to use against rust. There are a list of dealers on the Australian website - check it here I got mine in Brisbane from a panel beating paint supplies place. It's about $100 per litre, but goes a long way. They also recommend getting the proper metal prep and conversion stuff top get the metal ready for painting.
  15. Jordain, that rust is a bummer man! Especially when it all looks sweet from the outside. I have been digging around other parts of the car and have found a few more 'surprises'. Unwanted surprises that is! I have finally finished the floor pan and it's all painted with POR 15 Rust preventative paint. I can't believe how much work this has been, but once I got started I had to do it properly, and I am pretty darn sure that this floor ain't going to rust again. The POR 15 requires a massive amount of preparation to get a clean surface for the paint to adhere to, but it sticks really well and dries to be incredibly hard. The paint itself is pretty coarse. I strained it before applying but it still finished quite rough in places. It's not too much of a concern however, as I will be applying sound deadener/resomat or something similar, then carpet will be going over the top. Instead of uploading still photos, I got inspired and shot this time lapse video of the floor being prepped and painted. Have been trying to embed it on this site, but best I can manage is a link to the video. Check it here Next step is to seam seal the whole floor pan and then paint with primer. The POR 15 is not UV safe, so will fade under light. I'll eventually paint the floorpan with the chosen colour for the whole car, which I haven't work out yet!
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