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A weaker or no front sway if you have one. The weight transfer onto the outside tyre forces it down onto the ground for more grip. A stiffer rear sway, or fit one if you don't have one. That will help lift the inner rear wheel so it stops understeering, and you rely on the diff to give it drive. More front camber, so when it rolls onto the outside tyre the tread is flat on the ground. Camber will wear the inner edge of those nice RE888s, and toe-out will wear the inside edge even faster. Toe-out will make it very darty and it will change direction qucker, but it will feel less stable at high speeds. How about swapping for a 1.5 or a one-way. They turn in much better as they disengage on over-run, then pregressively lock up as you accelerate.

E85 no doubt soaks up water from the atmosphere too, then rusts the fuel tank out. But as the world is still running out of petrol we'll all end up using it! Mine run fine on the United 10% ethanol, and although straight 98 uses less fuel by about 1-2L/100km, the price difference makes it not worth it.

I don't think so, the K series was discontinued as a unit, neither motor nor gearbox was worth putting onto something else. You'd blow the K gearbox up with much more torque I expect. Start looking for a T-series gearbox and an A series motor if you want to modernise. The T50 gearboxes were behind the Tseries motors and then carried over to the more modern A series engines.

If you have lots of cars and are prepared to put the oxy sensor plug into each exhaust manifold they are excellent. The narrow-band I have on the SUs was great for shaping the needles, but once I had them set up the guage doesn't do anything. I'll take it out and mount it in the wife's Pulsar SSS one day to check that, but the gold KE70 will have to wait until I weld a nut onto the downpipe. But one and rent it out!

Ah rats! Too much to machine away Taz? I was planning on using this on my next big build!

http://iview.abc.net.au/programs/for-the-love-of-cars/ZX9979A001S00#playing Until the end of the July. $15000 for a dismantled, rusty wreck of an Escort... KE70s are now just where the Escorts were when the Harris' started street-racing them, common, cheap and under-appreciated.

If you're keen, have a measure-up of the Corona clutches. You would have to get the K flywheel skimmed across the face (get it lightened at the same time!) and re-drill the pressure plate holes out near the edge for the Corona pressure plate. Mainly, you have to ask the clutch shop to put a K core into the Corona clutch plate so the larger diameter clutch plate fits your gearbox input shaft. This gives you a larger clutch that has a greater clamping pressure on a larger clamp area. It will take greater power and last longer. We used to do it on the Datsun 1600 rally car using a 240K clutch.

The Weber throttle is back to front compared to the stock Aisin, so you'll have to change the throttle cable setup. The square fitting with the arm in the middle is the accelerator pump, it works on a square diaphram like a fuel pump instead of a piston in a cylinder like most carbs. Spend a few hours learning about using them from posts on here, and PM guys to find out what jets they used. They are the cheapest improvement you can get for the 4K. Now add a cam grind, a set of extractors and a free-flow exhaust! Welcome in!

Ah- that one is too long and too delicate to ship. Thye are really hard to get off without denting them, and just as hard to get back on and make them stay on.

A cage would make every car safer, you only have to look at motorsport or movie stunts.. the question is really, WHY don't the Govt allow them and even encourage their fitment? All their crash tests are just straight into some object, never about safety as you roll down a bank after hitting that kangaroo. Fit the cage if you can, and it only has to meet the minimum CAMS requirents for your racing, so make it in the smallest diameter pipe allowed so it is less intrusive. Back in the 80s I had a weekend warrior & we used a size smaller than the minimum required but with thicker walls, and had an engineer approve it.

Which is the upper chrome strip? The long one along the gutter??

Sounds good- put a whole build thead up about it!

Nope, well, not in KE70. They were never sold here so are really rare, only in Aussie if people imported them 'specially. South Africa had them, I don't know where else but I'm sure they got to NZ.

The cars are cheap here in Australi for the next few years, maybe a decade, until they all get destroyed. A couple of hundred dollars might get you one with a reasonable body and a blown-up engine, or $500 for a running car. Over $1000 will buy a really straight nice one. Then several thousand dollars to ship it to Malta! How much do you want to spend? You can ask shipping companies at your end what it will cost to get a car from Australia to Greece or Italy and then ferry it over.

Change it yourself, there is nothing easier- Pull yours off and pull it apart to check the carbon brushes, as they're the only parts that wear out (except the bearings, which you would hear) What is wrong with yours?

Doing anything to the carb system won't have much effect if you don't do the exhaust and a cam grind as well. The 4K will run a 45DCOE just fine if you do the other mods, as they will run twin 40DCOEs OK. What chokes do you have for the 45?

Research mini-spools some more. I've never used one but as far as I know they lock the diff in both directions, like welding the teeth together. This means it understeers as the locked rear wheels push the car straight forward, then it slides all over the place as the diff forces both rear tyres to lose grip together. You lose power as the tyres fight against each other too, but if you can get one wheel to lift off the ground partly it will spin easier. So they work fine in some corners and not in others. We filled in matching teeth in the spider gears so the diff works for maybe 1/4turn before one pair of gear teeth hit the filled in ones. This gave much better turn-in before it all let go in the rear. We're in for an LSD for the new car.

Ah, but wait! Look inside! So the wrecker wants $60 for the six bits, I'll take $25 on top to get them, and if they're what you want I'll ask the post office how much mailing will be. cheers

The blue passenger side- Blue drivers rear- But the driver's window has had it removed!

OK, are these the ones? The wrecker has a beige car and a blue car both with chrome strips. The vertical chrome strip up the rear 'C' pillar. Beige passenger front- Beige passenger rear- Beige drivers rear- ..and sadly no driver's door!

OMG! They make such a cute convertible!

Not bad... a contender for the world's first convertible KE10?? That would save chasing glass...

Holy shit that's bad news! Soon after you'd bought the bike too. Still, you're lucky to be alive really, bikes and cars don't mix well.

Ah- speaking of that, what are you doing about a limited slip unit??

Is it just me or will engine tilt rip this off straight away??