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Tidying up these rims has taken some time, I got a dremel and tidied up the welds on the lip. Dremels are fantastic. I've hand sanded out most of the nicks and scratches with 180 grit. Just got to work up to the 2000 grit and then I'll drill polish the lip to mirror finish, then get some bands on them.

Hit up Chobis, he may have a lead on a swampy. Otherwise, there are a few repro ones out there such as this one http://www.classicaire.com/ProductProfile.htm

Buy a vintage swamp cooler, it's a bit anachronous on a ke30 but will do the trick.

:bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: EDIT - I just noticed you even used "there" instead of "their"

keep in mind that if you stack it and the insurance company decides they wont pay because you had an illegal mod on your car, then you could be up for more than 3K. Just to clarify though, I think 3 grand is well too high. I was going to see if I could do the work for 500-750 but as mentioned for the small number of jobs I'd do in a year it would be too much in indemnity insurance.

First up this is not a grey area at all. Requirements for coil overs are pretty clear in this document from DTEI. You can start your mods now and get an engineer to look over it once done. But do it properly. it's important to understand why it's expensive to engineer modifications. I'm a mech engineer and have considered getting my CPE, in particular so that I can approve coilover installs as it's fairly straightforward to do, a few hours spent to look over the car and produce a report. Keep in mind that at a fairly standard round 100 bucks an hour, you wouldn't get much change from 500. The main reason why I haven't done it: professional indemnity. If I approve a suspension modification and after a crash a coroner rules that suspension failure contributed to someones death, I am personally liable and could lose everything I own. Professional indemnity insurance is available but wont do enough of this work on the side to pay the insurance bill. Anyway, the biggest issue is getting round the heating issue, you'll need to get any welds x-rayed if you use weld on coilovers.

Mate you wont get any change from 1000 bucks to do this modification to the 3K. For 200-300 bucks you should be able to fit a secondhand 4K

Important to heed reddwarf's last line; if you're building a "sleeper" then this is a lot of money spent for little gain. It would be much cheaper to fit a 5K engine into the car, it's a direct swap and 1500cc.

I don't reckon these reduction starters are overly necessary, I've run a KE70 starter (died) and now running the old KE10 item with 200psi of cylinder pressure and it starts fine.

I've lost count of the number of people asking about chopped falcon springs for their kesev but at least this one is digging up something of value and the newer members will get to see it. :dance:

Hey Jordain, messaged you back a couple of times but haven't heard from ya. Let me know about that gear, cheers.

damnit.... it's would HAVE people. "Would have", NOT "would of!" It's contraction is written "would've" which gives rise to the confusion. (not directed at anyone by the way)

My 5k is 68kw With loads of compression and cam. Running 45s and serious head work would get more juice for sure, I reckon my fairly stock head would be the bottleneck on mine.

Amen brother, it's not even been that hot but I've not got stuck into the 911 over my holiday. Although busting an ankle and working round the house were reasonable distractions. Having said that, put new bilsteins in the rear the other night and gave myself a good shot of inspiration to do more.

Are they countersunk screws holding it to the bosskit? I put $5 down that your countersunk screws are incorrectly sized for the thin sheetmetal (or the holes in the wheel are drilled too deep) of the steering wheel so that they bottom out without tightening the wheel down correctly. If this is the case you can probably recess the tops of the threaded holes slightly. Or you could replace them with Buttonhead screws.

ultra absorbent ones? Probably thought she had an innovative way to prevent the floodwaters rising.

although we're getting off topic, I've got a sales brochure for the ke16's with the later dash and they don't run any vents. Might have changed with a model year perhaps?

Hi Chad how are you. Good to see something a bit different, we don't get many DX's here in australia so it'd be good to see what you do with this rocket.

Yeh hook me up if you can with that number. I have porsche ones that would fit with a spacer but a direct fit would be ideal. The plan is to run coilovers as well, especially seeing how difficult it is to get the damn springs captive.

Are you crazy! I hate the stupid spats on EH's with that dirty piece of rubber strip in between them.

do Ford have a factory in adelaide? I'm glad the second article picked up on this point. "...good cars sell well, regardless of where they are made" Japan, Korea and before you know it China, are building better nicer cleaner smoother to drive cars that last much longer than what we can build here in australia. The sentimental car buyers market has propped up the floundering auto industry in this country for too long.

You have me there. Paint away my friend.

Hi there mate you're not going to get a step by step guide to turboing the 4K unfortunately. The best you can do is look over this thread there's plenty of pictures and although it's 52 pages long, you will get plenty of ideas how to do it. http://www.rollaclub.com/board/topic/10940-sis-5kte-ke55/ Oil lines, you can at least run a return back to the sump. As for the supply, I'm not sure how others have done it. Boost is controlled by the wastegate on the turbo.

because so many people cock up a perfectly good car with an absolutely ratshit matte black paintjob.

Trev best of luck with looking after the aftermath mate.