love ke70

undercover or not worried? how long for? is it whole and running?

no progress to speak of, but this thread is in need of an update. the other day my brand new set of chrome bumpers arrived from the Netherlands. $450 Au including shipping, so i was pretty chuffed with that :) came with indicators but no end caps. we got this far with the conversion and as i want to fit the 2 door glass, the C pillar was going to need to be modified as it comes back further than the 4 door pillar, and neither me or the mechanic was keen to chop the pillar up. and the next issue we realised, was the factory 2 door glass is a pop-out style window, and the seal sits on a metal bead like the rear window does, and the hinges pull it tight against it. so we were going to have to add a strip for the seal all the way around then muck around getting the hinges right etc etc. so i started contacting americans about getting that section cut out and shipped to me. one fellow even went so far as to actually cut a car up for me, sent me the pics, and then i never heard from him again. so basically since september every day i have been checking american forums for cars and trying to organise getting parts. at the moment i have a bloke selling a shell for 200 bucks, waiting to see pics of that, but hopefully i will be shipping the whole thing over and we will unstitch it infront of the B pillar and take the whole side off, back to around the taillights, so there are no panel welds down the sides, and everything will be where its meant to be, so should work out rather nicely. if you need anything brought from the states i can fit things inside the car and ship them here... so thats where we are up to at the moment :( On the engineering front, i need to contact my engineer as we have changed the way we were doing it quite a bit. when i contacted QLD transport they wanted me to do it through a pair of codes, can't remember them now, but they were the codes for converting a sedan to a convertible or cabriolet, and has a single paragraph about 4 door to 2 door conversion, so they said i had to use those codes. My engineer had a pink fit when i told him this, as so much of the testing was not applicable, and he said if he had done that without their suggestion they would prosecute him for improper practices. and yes it would have been the full beaming and torsional test. so we spent a couple of weeks chasing the big wigs of modifications, and finally got the permission for him to be a signatory engineer on the car, and not use the blue plate rulings. which made me rather happy :y: his name is Earl Gilchrist if you need an engineer to do your car. his reasoning was that as it was a 4 door, and we moving the B pillar by less than 250mm and using factory parts, and then welding in the rear doors, it was obviously going to end up stiffer than it started, so no need to do the beaming and torsional tests. the chassis between the two are the same, so i shouldnt have an issue with the way I'm planning on doing this conversion :( hope that helps :) cheers, andy

got pics? :) where you from anyway mate? would make a good drag car, or do you not have drag strips out your way? cheers, andy

most painters wont want to touch it, as if the result is f@$ked, they will blame you and you will blame them. best bet, just do some ringing or driving around, see who will do what for how much. usually in person u will get a feel if they actually want the job or not, and they will understand you are serious about doing it

i wuldnt go with anything but genuine for timing belts and gaskets. the number of times ive done rocker cover gaskets with rip offs and they havnt sealed, not worth the f@$king around, especially for a service yard.

jon what service? and why the f@$k is it so much? thats bullshit my friend.

but he has all the parts he needs now. how could it possibly cost much at all...

http://www.rollaclub.com/board/index.php?showforum=78 its like a magazine only online. start writing some articles :lol:

lol, i wondered why ud been so quiet lately jon, u poor thing haha and chobis, I'm hoping you were drunk, either that or this illness you have is making your typing slurred :lol:

LS1 is the new 2JZ nuff said. :lol: but how is this constructive? is there still a thread here that is in progress? let it continue if there is

lol, i was thinking the same thing curly and thats just awesome power mate, will you def be out there 2nd of jan? i think its about time i came and had a look at this beasty run :)

i rate quite a bit of her music, its f@$kin catchy and hits hard. even if i am punk/metal/emo orientated usually. maybe it was a ur-a-f@$kin-idiot-open-ur-eyes look?

loving this 2 door goodness, just wish i could get mine happening!

dude, you need to see someone about these issues you have. maybe she just hates young tools? was having a bad day? has spent the last 40 years of her life pointing people in the direction of the blatantly obvious ATM once you know where it is. or maybe she really does hate all wogs. i could understand why...but thats a whole new thread :y: but seriously, stop being so racist.

that bookmark thing used to shit me up the wall too, would open then not f@$k off. running XP with uptodate firefox. and felix, thats a shit load of pages to have open! haha wish i could pull it off, my 8 year old computer just doesnt make it happen though lol

me :) what u driving?

id be recommending the 6boost again, they way mine was made, you can't complain, just opt to pick it up, his delivery sucks in my experience lol and I'm not the only one to complain:P looks like a stainless manifold? the amount of heat you woulda been pushing through that I'm not surprised it brokeded

why did it arc? what did they do? sounds like the bridged it with a spanner, or tried to connect it backwards, thats usually an amusing event :)

what mani were u using?

mmm, all the stories ive heard are front chassis rails, and also behind the front gaurd, behind the wheel, people have found some wicked rust inside there, even when the quarter panel looks alright..

not bad, now you get the fun of bogging and sanding bogging and sanding bogging and sanding, and eventually you get to prime and sand bog and sand and prime and sand and hopefully theres no more bogging, so then its priming and sanding, and one day all those little imperfections will be gone if you really try :D

take the work offer, buy the car, everyones a winner, namely you :D

oh and i can weld, havnt done a diff before though, ive got spares i can sell you if it does f@$k up :jamie:

where in yatala? I'm just near rivermount. what colour ke70? ill keep my eyes open for ya, just look for a lunatic waving out of a patrol ute, thatll be me :jamie:

so you gave him money after you fixed his car? ignition barrell isnt much work, stop being such a tightarse :jamie: