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Not too sure yet. First thing is to buy some pistons and a rebuild kit so then I get get the block dipped and bored to suit. Ill need to make a decision before I buy the is pistons though.

Cheers mate. Always good hear from fellow members. Which side of the road were you on?

I've pulled the motor down with the exception of removing the crank. It was full of water, so it's quite obviously been sitting around for some time. The block has no displacement casting and the engine number starts with 023. The 5K in my ke20 starts with 037 so I would assume this is from around '86 but who can tell? It is a shallow dished engine with hydraulic lifters. It is a mid port 5k head. The exhaust recirc ports have been bunged off. The head gasket was newish and hardly stuck to the block. The manifold gasket has been stuck on with all manner of adhesives. Single row timing chain, standard camshaft. The lifters are pretty shagged and one has completely collapsed which is likely the reason the motor was negated. The bore is standard size and the piston are standard Toyota aisan items. I would dare say the engine has never been rebuilt.

I've acquired Toyota 5K 1486cc engine. A very basic specimen, missing most auxiliaries and in a rather poor state. My brother happened across an odd looking engine at the local tip. He rolled it over to check the number & $5 later it's on my engine stand. That is what I call a win. My intentions for this piece are unclear but hardly honourable. This is going to be a very slow rebuild as I want to go all places and explore all possible scenarios.... and I'm not exactly a rich amigo.

Check out what my brother found at the Beaudesert dump. For just 5$ here it is. Proud owner of another shallow 5k. Standard bore, bunged off 5k head with hydraulic kit. Good looking fuel pump, but look at what came out of the sump. Has 4 prong spark plugs for some reason. Very happy chap here apart from the fact that my 6 year old son left the plug in the bathroom sink with the tap running and now I'm busy doing a water dance drying carpet with every square inch of towel in the house. Where do we go from here? What that in the back ground?

There's brown shit in my coolant. Yay!

I'm going to start logging the degradation of this vehicle. Over the past 3+ years since the body work, rust and paint flakes are coming through. Not overly interested in trying to save her. I've had my fun, spent a small fortune and have learned many lessons. Next time I'll start with a much better body. I'm just gonna drive her till she can't drive no more. Then ill rebuild the motor again for another rolla.

I really like this car. Much respect.

What you have is a dished piston 5k with a 4k or 5k flat top head. I would call this someone's disaster. There is a 6mm difference in head heights between the flat top or 'O' dish piston motors & the dished 'D' shaped piston motors. Large compression chamber for the flat tops and small chamber for the bit D dished motors This results in a 6mm difference in pushrods length hence the chopped and welded pushrods. Massive carbon build up indicates poor combustion due to very low compression or a rich fuel mixture. The original stuff you need to fix this isn't easy to find because nobody knows what they are looking at. In your position the easiest and safest fix is as follows Buy a rebuild kit with the flat or 'O' shaped pistons. Find another camshaft, yours is cracked anyway. Have it reground to a new and solid lifter profile. Do the chev/ Datsun solid conversion. Holden 202 solid lifters and Datsun A12 pushrods. It's your only sure way to get that engine running in the near future

I put ke55 shocks and springs in my ke20 with 1&1/2" lowering blocks. It does not make it any better and its possibly worse. The springs are basically identical. You really need a short stroke shock with reset springs.

Sound is guuurrrrrrd!

You. Buy a rebuild kit and a can of carry cleaner. TA DA!!!

Rubber in the spring seats. Just take the rubber out. As long as the spring is trapped properly you won't notice a difference.

What drips out of the back of the carb and why would you want the other to do it? Carbs shouldn't leak anything.

How long do you want it too last and how much money do you want to spend. Block dipped, bored 1.5mm, blue printed Dry sump oil feed You could have your crank knife edged, shot peened & polished Forged and shot peened conrods Polished and balanced cam with grind Roller rockers on a micro polished rocker shaft with double valve springs Over sized titanium valves Ceramic coated extractors Electric fuel pump to delete mechanical Crank angle sensor with quad coils or magneto ignition. I could just go on.

If I use regular unleaded in my 5k it knocks and runs on also. I use premium 95 and sometimes it'll knock depending on the quality of the fuel. I use 98 where ever possible but I then suffer problem with a rough idle. It's official fuel is shit, overrated and expensive. Around $1.68 AU for 95ron

I'm going to say yes. The 3kb carbs use the same gaskets kits as the singles. You may find the accelerator pump and/or needle and seat differ slightly. If you can not find any info on the inter google there'll be only one way to find out.

I was round the back near the dan murphies. I was sure about the front car park because its so small.

I left home at 5:30 picked my bro up at 6is and headed out to Hamilton. We hung around the hotel till about 7:15. Figured no ones coming because no one ever does. Headed up to Morayfield BP for fuel and chow. Then continued up the Bruce and onto the Sunshine Mwy. Detoured pass the airport and onto the coastal road David Low Way for the rest of the journey up to Noosa headland. Took a 1 & 1/2 hr bush walk out to Hell's Gates which looked like this... From there we headed back to Caloundra via Maroochydore and Mooloolaba and stopped at Kings Beach for some fish and chips. Then it was back onto the motorway for the long as drive home. Back in Beaudesert at 3. The rolla got heaps of attention and is a real joy to drive. I had a great day out but I think there's about 199km of highway driving too much. Became very draining very quickly.

I Haven't been to moods since I was 12 so at some point I may detour because I really want to go back to Hells Gates.

Yep. Sweet. Hopefully we get some more cars in before tomorrow.

I'm keen. I would like to confirm a route/destination and make sure others are attending before I make the hour + journey to the starting line. 7am is fine. 7:30/8 would be better. If nowhere in particular is planned yet I can definitely find somewhere curly to burn up.

I see why you wanted that knob. I've got one in my 20. It's a good knob.

I didn't see a great deal of detail in his build thread. 2 pages of quickies and 4 pages of people giving him props. I'm pretty sure, in regards to the power figures he recieved for the Mitsubishi, Mercury Motorsports has a pretty gnarly reputation for grossly over rating their power figures.

Is this gonna happen? I'm keen and we're running out of time.