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My first car, back in about 1983. This thing got absolutely hammered, and never failed me once. Finally ended its days at the hands of a Nissan urvan. Sleep well my friend...... My second car, originally my dads till I convinced him to let me buy it. This car saved me, as I almost bought one of the last rear wheel drive Gemini's (TG?) new until the dealer tried screwing me over. Took it away for a month, stuck in a cam, exhaust, headwork, twin webers, suspension. Brought it back and offered to take him for a spin. The look on his face was priceless. He couldn't believe the transformation, or that I had managed to do the work myself! This car got hillclimbed, sprinted, autocrossed, motorkhaned nearly every weekend before getting me to work each day. What a car! I think this bottom shot was taken at Challenge of clubs. Then sold on within the car club before reliably being seen at pickapart a number of years later. sob. There then followed a procession of Datsun 1600's which I don't have photo's of, before getting back into an AE86 which I still have.

Retrimmed, and agree, look like KE20 seats. Original KE10 seats were vinyl and had no headrest KE15/17SL had optional headrests, and plugged holes in the top of the seats if not fitted. Possibly there may be some KE11's around with optional headrest seats? If you have the holes insitu, you can fit VW Golf Mk1 headrests, and they look quite good. I have a set of these if anyone wants them. I managed to locate a set of genuine headrests in the USA, which had been fitted to a KE11, where the safety requirements differed from ours.

Why are half your cars on fire?

I don't mean you! I thought the same as you. I reckon he went down there with a can of spray paint. Then waited for someone to start telling us all about their amazing wrecker find.

Bamboo messing with the newbs!

What an amazing day. Huge thanks to all those involved in organising this, huge effort guys. Incredible line up of cars. Highlights for me 1. Hendo's V8 Cressida - sleeper beast 2. The demonstration of engineering excellence exhibited in all the early Honda's 3. Mazda Cosmo! 4. Honda civic coupe - series 9 I think (someone told me who knows these things) 5. Checking out the twin Solex set up on the Publica Ute. Now where to find one of those manifolds. 6. The removable panel in the front passenger seat of the Toyota Century to allow the rear seat personage to put their feet up (I presume). 7. Remembering how agricultural Datsun 1600's are (the three I owned over the years erased from memory) 8. An impressive line of Bellett's 9. Sleeper Mazda 1300 station wagon running a rotary turbo on what appears an otherwise standard car, with crap tyres. What were they thinking. And I haven't even mentioned the KE15's, Crown's, Celica's and the TE27. To think how fortunate we are to see these cars on a regular basis, so much so that they become almost routine. Plus meeting and chatting to some great people who can appreciate other marques.

Not really, it depends also on the cam timing. Remember, the ECU controls the "advance curve' so to speak, dependent on the sensor signals coming in to it. You can't really fool that. Cam timing is really the one variable you can affect independent of the factory ECU, unless you start playing with map sensor signals. But yes, make sure your TPS is set correctly first, and see how you go. See 4AGE diagnostic manual

The dizzy body has a second 'mark' that can cause confusion sometimes when lining things up. Don't under estimate the importance of having your throttle position sensor set up correctly. Then it is more mundane stuff such as ensuring the fuelling is optimal - injectors not gummed up, clean filter, correct fuel pressure regulator. correct fuel line setup.

My untouched 4/69 KE15 has the fat ones. Edit, per the parts manual, there were two styles across KE1x's, and they changed December 1968

I was hoping for someone who will come to us (Eastern & North Eastern). With work, school kids etc, very hard to go far.

Our car had done less than 30,000 and also needed tyres. A friend with a Volvo XC90 had the sunroof fail out of warranty and it was going to cost thousands. Traded in, and now she drives a Merc 4WD thingy.

So the wife has nudged a bollard at the servo in her Forester. It isn't too bad, and I was thinking of seeing whether one of the paintless dent remover guys could get it out fairly simply. Other than the obvious answer of looking in the yellow pages, has anyone had some experience with anybody they might recommend?

Doesn't everyone browse Rollaclub in bed? Actually it comes out very well in A3, and more of a poster size.

Something I picked up on ebay that's a bit of fun for the shed wall. Print it out in B5 if you can, otherwise A3 and trim the edges. Though none of you youngsters will know what a pint is.

Nah, Jesus would have driven a Hyundai Excel, or Commodorel. Most of the people I see driving around in them think they're god, or about to join him.

Yep, you will find that all the usual retail oulets will order from ACL

Repco

Yes, the idle circuit is probably blocked or silted up. The choke circuit circumvents the idle circuit. KC & 3KC engines ran 9:1 compression, KB & 3KB 10:1 compression and different cam. 3KH I don't have the specs for.

Looks like you just robbed a bank.

Agreed, join a club and buy something that is already built up and common, i.e. an excel. Doesn't have to be fast, it will feel plenty fast enough!

No way. Someone has done it themselves

Absolutely positively, definitely not factory

Yes, we had a MY07 Volvo V50. When it came up needing all 4 discs replaced, along with a few other things, it tipped us over into trading it in. We now have a Forester. I could have sourced everything aftermarket dramatically cheaper, but the car was stil under an extended warranty. For my 10 year old Renault, I buy virtually anything I have to buy new via the UK, other than basic service items.

Well if you don't want to put something up that you are prepared to let other people see, don't put it up in the first place. I expect moderators have better things to do with their time than trawling around deleting posts unnecessarily. If you want to edit your posts then feel free to do so. It's not that hard.

Not sure if this has been posted (I can't see anything in this thread due to blocking stuff) but this is pretty damn good http://www.youtube.com/user/LUXE37