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yeh sounds like him the idiot. apparently he was in the fast fours mag cos he rear ended someone and when questioned said it was cos his brakes locked! baahhaha idiot

I'm sure atleast some of you guys have been told by a certain RogerCordia that his cordia is the greatest in the world and will beat any car that races it. well, i made a video paying him out about how slow his car is and all his stupid claims! check it out :jamie: http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=CSFHAe4GHao

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I'm studying engineering at adelaide and one of my older mates graduated last year and does certificates here in sa, he was the one who told me. he said you can get away with it if you have a certificate but there are alot of regulations to abide by. I'm not sure about carbon fibre though as I'm sure it has different fracture properties to fibreglass. ring up the rta and find out from them, best bet cos i know in sa its a no no, but still, doesnt really stop people from doing it, and if your car is all painted up, how will anyone ever know?

i was going to do this on my cordia but its illegal as the fibreglass splinters in the event of a crash and isnt safe for pedestrians and stuff like that. still you can do it for a "track" car if you really want, just like I am doing for my "track" corolla :wink:

see now a t50 will need a different bellhousing correct? just out of curiosity, how does your engine drive? where does it start making its power and up to what revs does its powerband end? and how is she to drive in traffic + fuel economy haha!

fix the link! i wanna see!

damn thats a sweet setup there :wink: what box do you run? cos if i keep the standard 4 speed, will she drop out of the powerband when i shift?

planning to drive her on the street, but hammer in the hills alot, hopefully she loves revs, cos i do haha! have you got any photos of the sump you made? and just of your engine in general :wink:

pop in a 308 from a holden, been done many times before, easy to find parts for, even easier to get big power out of. but just remember she'll be a pig to handle

damn 83 mm! thats huge! my pistons are just 81mm so standard 4age diameter, and 40 thou overbore on the 5k. what about head bolts, are there any really strong ones to handle high compression? also you said that i will need to modify the sump, what do I need to do to it?

fantastic info there trd, cheers! Well i'll be custom making my inlet manifold to suit my twin webers so i guess i'll accomodate uprighting the engine in my designs. id love to get the 20mm pistons but ive already got the 18mm pistons :wink: The 3k will definately outrev the 5k due to the stroke, i guess its just a question as to how much the 5k can rev. Now this talk about valves, what is the usual go with them? i recall someone saying gemini valves? whats the deal there? also the double valve springs, do I source them from a holden 202? any ideas for stronger pushrods? cheers to everyone once again!

haha saw the same car there too! :wink:

lol whoops ment s13! so is the adaptor bracket for the calipers or is it to bolt it onto the hub?

the only machining i would do is on the pistons to make them 20mm, boring and decking the block, shaving the head and a port and polish and balancing the thing so she'll rev. now, getting an engineers report here in sa for a 4age, going to regency and screwing round with cops let alone the engine conversion is headf*ck fullstop. if I'm wrong there, i'll go sell my ass down hinley street for a weekend lol! anyway i know it will cost money, I'm not a retard, and i know it'll probably end up costing heaps of it too! I'm not too fazed on that. all id like is advice on a setup. is revving over 8 a waste of time? whats the strength of 4age rods? how do i upright my motor? extractors; what should I do there? stuff like that concerns me, rooting around with a motor doesnt, cos at the end of the day, it comes part and parcel with modding your car the way you want it. thanks for the concerns and everything, I know you just want to highlight issues so don't take this as a go at anyone or anything cos all the information has been great and i thank everyone for that, as well as the constructive criticism :wink:

10 grand is a pipedream really! and kangrossas engine would be fantastic if he was in adelaide. i don't want to go 4age, too much headf*ck. cash isnt too much of a problem as long as its only for parts, everything will get put together by me and my uncle. and an uprighted engine sounds fantastic to me. ive pmed people on how to do it but no1 gets back to me! i know you got to change the engine mounts, but what bout the gearbox, how do you do it?

whats this about the s14 brakes? can you swap your discs with s14 ones? is there any machining or anything else involved in the conversion? soz bout the noobness of the question haha

i just spoke to my uncle and he said taking a mm out of each side of the grudgin pin hole shouldnt hurt it at all, so i might go with that and atleast then i can run the later rods which would be stronger right? how would they hold up revving up to 10 grand with say 12:1 cr? I'm happy to spend 500 on h-beam rods if i have to but only if it is absolutely necessary..

fantastic info! thank you very much for that. with my pistons, can i drill out an extra 2 mm to fit the rods in? sorry if it sounds like I'm asking stupid questions, its just ive spent $300 on brand new pistons that wont fit now and i doubt anyone will buy them :wink: and just as a quick run down... you're saying, run a 5k, with 4age internals, shaved 5k head with porting and polishing. get her balanced, regrind a cam for 9500-10000 (ssweeeeeeeeeeeettttt!) and a 4k crank? also what about extractors and lightened flywheel? necessary?

machining isnt a problem for me cos my uncle owns a mechanics workshop and his mate will do it really cheap for me (obviously id have to ask of course how hard it is first haha). thing is ive spent the cash on the pistons now so I'm sorta stuck with them. a big worry at the moment for me is this notion of the block splitting at high revs. can anyone shed some light on this?

see now these don't work because of the diameter at the big end correct? ive been pondering over getting the early rods with the 40mm big end diameter and machining down the crank to make it 40mm. can this be done and how badly will it effect reliability?

well as the story goes, ive got a ke30, wanted to put my 4G63 VR4 motor in it but found out it would be more hassle than it was worth so decided to go down the k engined route. ok now basically atm ive got a ke30 sitting at home with a 3k i'll rip out and ive since been collecting parts to build my hot k motor. So far at home ive got a set of 4AGE pistons (81mm diameter, 18mm grudgin pin diameter), two DCOE sidedraught 40 webers and 4k Main bearings (which I'm assuming fit a 5k crank but if they don't i'll cry!) firstly, should i go 5 or 7k? i know they share the same bore and its the stroke that makes them different capacity wise, but the engines, although similar are different. I was thinking about getting a 5k block and running a 7k crank, this along with the 4age pistons and rods, as to negate the need to deck the block later (if i was to use the 5k crank). Also, i know that certain 4AGE rods have a 20mm upper diameter and a 42mm large end diameter (actually I think, I'm probably wrong), and the 5k crank shares a 42mm diameter, but the pistons I have are 18mm upper diameter which would mean i would have to use the 40 mm big end rods. question is, can the crank be machined to fit these rods or am i screwed and have to throw away the pistons? Now i want to run real high compression on this engine, so I will probably go for a 4k head and shave her down a little bit to bump up the compression; should i ceramic coat my pistons? and how hard can I rev the thing without the block splitting (ive heard 8 but i want to rev higher if I can :lol: ) anyway thats all my issues for the time being! thanks for the help in advance!

go the 4k. I'm in the same situation as u, ive got a ke30 3k with a cracked head and I'm dumping the motor for a 5k! wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy more power, easy change too!

hey guys just wondering how i would go about popping twin carbs onto a 5k motor? my dad is going to give me two sidedraught weber 40s from his alfa as he is upgrading to 45s, but would this be overkill for a 5k? the 5k i hope to run will be modded with a mild/wild cam, 4age pistons + decked block and high compession head, along with extractors. i know I would have to make/source a new inlet manifold but will she still fit with the engine slanted or do i have to straighten her up? cheers everyone in advance! Raff

how would you go about wiring in a low fuel light cos i want to run full aftermarket gauges on my dash and ditch the fuel gauge for a simple warning light (say 10 litres left). its in a ke30