ke70dave

i suppose this is off topic, WTB: Ekranoplan http://englishrussia.com/2010/03/12/ekranoplan/

I don't like the "like a boss" stickers. What is a boss? and why do you want to be like one?

i have seen a setup like you describe, twin intercoolers (small ones), OEM sidemounts from memory. i think it went turbo-intercooler-supercharger-intercooler-engine. he was claiming something like 10psi at 2000rpm and 18psi from 3000 onwards? "foxtail" his name was, used to sell those razor back ecu's. needs a fair bit of development to get it right though, he had pipes going everywhere as different vac references, an extra throttle from memory, one activated by vacuum to keep the idle constant. i belive he did it for an academic excercise, and pulled it off quite well. http://www.rollaclub.com/board/topic/25047-twin-charged-ke70/ unfortunately been a few yrs, so photos are gone.

if you are serious about picking the correct turbo for your application, you need to start looking in the maths of turbo selection. this is a fairly good overview. http://www.enginelogics.com/cmaps.html compressor maps are available for most common turbos (garrett etc) from their website. the problem may come from trying to decide how much air your engine eats, there are forumlas and calculations that can be used to get a decent approximation. i have a speadsheet at home for the 4age, but not sure on its accuracy of where i even got it, i can have a look if you want though.

yes good option. i spent 3k alone putting my 4age in my ke70. (admitedly i did it properly, bought new parts where i could) only managed to sell the entire car (with good suspension and all) for just under 4k. a shame really, but hey you never make money on cars. the next project car i do, I'm buying something that is either half finished or finished but a bit run down. and just rebuild what needs doing.

yeah but the commondores are always ex pursuit cars, with police issue chips in the ecu, and pursuit rims, and anything else pursuit. don't you want to go as fast as a police pursuit? WGMG is advertisements for digital radio, on a digital radio only station. So in order to hear the advertisement, you have to be listening to a digital radio. So why would i need to buy a digital radio when i already have one that i am listening too, TO HEAR THE ADVERTISEMENT!!!! :glare:

the bashing method is a little acricultural....but ive seen it work. youc can weld a nut to the lock nut, and use a ratchet on that.

what does "s pack" mean? i swear everytime i see a VS for sale or on a forum its either an s pack or an ex cop car! i am quite suprised at the ecotec engine, fiance's car is a lexcen from the same era, the v6's do sing up in the high revs, i bet they are fun to drive in manual, and in a car half a commondores weight.

I see the weight reduction is well on its way!

who knows. nostalgic value perhaps. log book means nothing on a 25yr old car anyway. might have original log books, but when was the last time it was filled out?!

agreed. accelerator pump is really the only thing that keeps up with fuel addition on ANY change in acceleration. if you arent seeing any fuel being squirted in when you pump the accel, id say you need to fix that asap. either the accel pump jet is blocked, or the accel pump piston isnt sealing and pumping fuel. i know you said you cleaned the carb already, but the symptoms you describe to me point to the accel pump.

I want to have a go. very very cool. geez that website has some cool cars on it. http://bringatrailer.com/2012/02/24/bat-exclusive-resurrected-1927-buick-barn-find/

the reality is, 6.5" wide rim isnt wide on its own. to get that "look" you are going to need stupidly skinny tyres, which combined with the complete lack of tyre wall compliance (from stretching), and the fact you can only really get shitty tyres in 155 size......you will be going backwards in all aspects of car modification except for street cred in the maccas carpark. 6.5" is ~185mm or so. so a tyre that will look good is a 185mm wide tyre, in a reasonable ratio to keep the rolling diameter the same. 185 will sit reasonably flat a 195 will also fit nicely, and give you more rubber on the road without looking too "bulgy", but i dunno if you even get 195/**/R13....

155 tyres.eh? Cheese cutting a hobby of yours?

15" is how you get good tyres. not alot to choose from in 13 or 14".

i do a situp every monning about 630am.

sweet mother that crash test is nasty! i drove one of these at a defensive driving test, certainly a little car thats for srue. proton is based on mitsubishi engines or something yeah?

i saw that green ferrari the other day too! sort of near QUT kelvin grove campus.

hah! i don't even own a corolla anymore, but I'm a car enthusiast, and the s600 is a car;) and we welcome car enthusiasts.... there are plenty of purists in any car club, even the thought of putting a nissan motor in an old 80's corolla gets negative remarks from a good percentage of online crowd. but hey, cars are meant to be enjoyed by the owner, and if enjoyment is achieved from putting a different motor into a different cars, who is to argue? let the k powered old school mazda convertable development continue!

no worries mate, keep the updates coming when you can, we like photos here! the s600s really are a beautiful little car. whats that potentiometer down near the bottom left of photo, near the radiator? radiator fan controller?

ah very cool mate. yeah you just copy the link in the photo that has the "IMG code" bit from photobucket. looks like this, but with square brakcets on the end to make it work. IMG]http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g390/bigwave2255/DSC06337.jpg[/img geez that motor fits in there nicely. love it. especailly how the carbys sit. whats happening with the firewall? is that how it is?

love it mate, its going to be a very zippy machine when your done. is that the engine in your display pic? with the 2 carbs? don't have a larger version of that by any chance? for no other reason than pure curiosity to see how it looks! ----- was s600 the car that had a chain driven rear end?

holy dooly that is awesome. i love s600s hope you don't mind ill post the photos up here: i saw a very very straight and shiny red S600 on the back of a trailer the other day, and the rear number plate holder looked very japense sized, and it had fender mirrors half way down the bonnet. I suspect it was a fresh import.

i have been considering this exact conversion into an old toyota, here are my findings and recomendations. bite the bullet and buy a complete s15 or s14 silvia half cut ($2-3k), from as later model as you can find. s15's ran in japan untill late 2002. so you can potentially get one that is under 10yrs old (just...) and hopefully lowish km's (under 100k maybe...) the s15 is 6 speed wiht VVTi on the intake cam. S15's have a 3.6 ratio diff in the rear. so you want to try and get as close to this. 3.9 woudl probably be alright at a stretch, but i woudlnt go any higher. the R31 differential can be had in 3.7 ratio, thats pretty close to 3.6! you will need to get an R31 diff, and a factory ke70 diff. and either make a jig to transfer all the mounts over (check the FS section, someone is selling a jig atm!) or take it somewhere and get them to do it (~$500). consider getting the diff shortened to suit the ke70. i don't know exact dimensions so search! once you do this the diff will bolt into the car like a factory diff. then buy a brand new 2 way from KAAZ (900-1000AUD) and get it fitted in by a diff shop (few hundred). do it once, do it properly. now get your angle grinder and welder and shoe horn the engine and gearbox into the car, make up a few custom made engine mounts (using gineric rubber mounts) and weld it all up. custom tailshaft ~$400 now since you have the s15 half cut, i theorise that you could install the entire airconditioning, climate control, heater system from the s15 into your ke70. how awesome would climate control be in an old toyota! big task though, but i reckon it could be done. i would certainly budget 10k, but i reckon if you diy as much as you can (i reckon you coudl DIY everything except tailshaft, exhaust and diff mods) then i reckon you could get it done for 7-8k (jsut engine and drivetrain, not brakes suspension etc). up to a driving stage, then its just time to make it all neat and reliable. oh yeah...wiring....good luck! get out the wiring diagrams.

it also depends on what goodies he has suspension wise. "coilvoers" isnt very descriptive. if its got 86 brakes, decent shocks, RCA's, new bushes everywhere, good shocks in the rear, properly lowered rear end. then thats worth a bit by itself, as if you price it all up, a proper front end suspension/brakes for a ke70 is not much change from 1200bucks. another big consideration is registration and more importantly RWC. i think people underestimate how much an RWC is worth on old cars. of course RUST is the worst, everythign else can be fixed by buying new parts from repco, RUST though.... also make sure that paint work is good, cheap paint jobs might look good for 6months, but then they start chipping and what not and you start to realise how chep of a job it was. have the painted the door jams orange too? the engine bay? boot? id pay $2.5-3k for that thing if its got good suspension, RWC and a few months of rego and the paint looks respectable on closer inspection. also being a wagon they are a bit rarer and somewhat saught after, but i don't belive that gives a huge price hike.