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awesum this sounds like what i need, is the sensor an after market sort of thing or will the gauge work with any sensor? the gauge i was looking at using was a speco it says it can runn off a hall effect sensor, an ecu or a magnetic sensor , so I'm guessing it would be prety close to the autometre type of speedo,

cheers for that info mate may look into that, I'm also trying to find out if i can use a rb20 rb 30 gear box with a sr20 bell housing , then posibly i could run the mechanical speedo like that way??// hmmmmmmm

woo 8/ my engine arived to day pretty happy to see this thing turn up, so now i just need a billion other parts lol, ok so i can use a sr20 bellhousing and blueburd series 3 box and should fit semi ok? what year of blue bird should i be looking for ? mite have a mission to the wreckers and have a hunt around, cheers

any ideas on how to hook up a after market electronic speedo????????? fitting a sr20 engine to my ke55 and woundering how I'm going to have a speedo?? been looking a t the speco range of gauges and found a electronic one think the product number is 520-00 how do you hook these up ? has any one got a good solution to this? rather not use my kee55 factory speedo gauge if i can avoid it ive also seen on here alot of custom fitted guages similar to the one I'm looking at how did you guys gett them to work? sorry if these are retarded questions , any help be great cheers

oh well thats ok then i just scored an sr engine so may i pick your brain ???? lol!!!!!!! i couldnt get a ca18det was just to much of a mission but an sr20 just came up so i snaped it up quick ;-) so i guess not this hole post was a waste of time hahahhaha well I'm still going for the r31 diff, so i guess now the question is can i still use a ca18 gear box or bluebird one or the rb30/ca combo box?or are the sr20s a different size gearbox? hmmmmm thanks in advance ;-)

awesum thanks for the help ,anyone want to offer up any pics of this actualy been done/????? i see theres a few who have done it to coupes and ke20s but can't find any pics of a ke55 i wanta see mounts and engines in engine bays of rollas ! any one at all????????? well this is my car anyway the one I'm thinking of doing this all to ,

thanks for all that sounds like I'm on the right track then, so engine mounts and gear box mounts no problem,now i just read some where that using the ca18 bell housing and a rb30 gearbox together will actuly give you a shorter gear box and the shifter hole nearly lines up perfect with the rollas gear stick hole, would this be a better option than the ca18 gear box by it self or the bluebird series 3 gearbox???? or the blue bird one is pretty close and be better than stuffing round getting 2 gearboxes???? now hanging the gear box a bit lower should fit ok ,would that mean mounting the engine it self as low as possible to the cross member ????? also for the drive shaft i take it you need to use a datsun one that has removable uni joints so you can fit a differnt joke to the diff end yes? and what about lenght of the drive shaft would that have to be cut down or lenghtened????? also I'm looking into the fuel system side of things came across a diagram that i thing would suit well :::: or would it be better to use a lifter pump in the fuel tank to fill the surge tank rather than an external pump like described in this techy post ::: http://www.rollaclub.com/faq/index.php?tit..._AE86_Fuel_Tank any advice what i should do for the front brake upgrade????

Ok so been scaning the net for the last several months, trying to sorce as much info as i can, basiscly i have a 1980 ke55 , my daily driver, i want to put a ca18det into it ,I'm finding alot of conflicting info and people have done this and done that ,can't seem to get the whole picture tho ,so can any one who has done this or has a mate with this done offer up some info to clarify what ive learnt so far??? so this is what i have : the ca18det will fit into the engine bay no problem, as for the engine you just have to make up engine mounts to fit to the standard x-member????????????????????????? you don't have to cut the firewall or the tunnel at all when using a standard s13 ca18 gear box????????????????? as for mounting the gear box you can just make a custom xmember to suit, the gear stick will sit 3-5 inches back from the standard hole,so just cut new hole and plate over the old???????????? and the drive shaft can be created from a datsun drive shaft using various yokes????????????????????? and the other thing the diff?? now ive read that you can use r31 skyline diffs, with one side cut down and the axel shortened to suit, cut the old mounts off the rolla diff and mount them to the r31 diff,????????????????? and the other thing the front strut/brake upgrade , ive read all sorts of crazy combinations but what realy works well???????????? i need bigger disks and bigger calipers ,but also changing the struts may well effect the camber, ive read of people using ra60 struts , with ke30 lower balljoint arms?????????? xtcorona???? realy a bit lost with all this wealth of info can any one shed some light on the things ive read and comfirm if they are correct, maybe sugest a good way to do things , pretty serious about this build ,but want to be armed with correct info before i take it all on, all pics and info welcom !!! help me get this thing started! :bash:

awesum thanks guys opens up my options a little cheers

sorry if this is a retarded question you all just need to know are the ke30 with round headlights front guards the same as ke55 with sqaure headlights the same , trying to find a a ke55 with suitable replacement panels but not having much luck would i gt away with buying a ke30 and using its guards instead?????????????????????

congrats oldskool on all the most excellent hard work your put in and for taking the time to post up ,i own a ke55 and have been searching the net for a few weeks now trying to find out as much as i can on all the dos and donts and problems run into with these engine transplants , great work keep up the postings, btw what did you end up using in your front end set up, did you end up with modifed ke30 lower arms as suggest by another member, ra65 struts,corrolla springs and spring cups and the kmac adjustable towers??? just woundering what ended up working well so maybe i can take the same aproach and start sourcing parts! ;-) cheers :bash: