love ke70

why go silicon? whats wrong with off the shelf replacements, much like the ones that have lasted you 20 years so far already?

yeah, id say 6 or 7 minutes, where were u sitting? didnt see you out there... giving the starter the finger was good, and backing out of stage lol, i missed the very start of it, what caused it? you must think something was said in the pits to get them that fired up... did you get pics of old mate doing a burnout into the wall? i couldnt believe that, such a good lookin car too

i rocked up about 2.30, got in free :lol: was good to see the ke20s turning in some good numbers :osama: some good racing, the massive staging duel was just awesome haha, couldnt believe it

ahk, i know some people have made it over the tank

comtoy, you should be able to pull the reseats and open it that way

ear plugs too although most cars at jambo are only loud if your standin on the line :P

oh dear. I'm a genius. i still think it would be a prick, exhaust on the firewall side springs to mind as an interesting thing to navigate...

by about 50% considered there are 3 cylinders in a row not two...

ill wait for someone who knows more about it to answer that one..

so long as its not pinging 12 is fine, mine ran around that for ages. are all the other servicables up to date? hard to diagnose a carby problem without seeing it, air flow is going to be different with the filter off though, and at idle there isnt much velocity so its not gonna atomise in the barrell all that well...

anyone that does an engine conversion in a fwd for their first conversion is destined to fail. its ʇ~~ɔy enough just doing an engine swap on most of the f@$king things. there is just NO space, ANYWHERE.

replace leads spark plugs air filter rotor button and dizzy cap probably points too and fuel filter if you havnt already that is. check tyre pressures. check for leaks set timing to 8-10 degrees. check vac advance is working i would consider the 3k carby, or just put a carby kit through the 4k one, they can be economical, i used to get under 8 litres per hundred week after week even giving the car a flogging at times. check compression too while your at it... then see how you go. oh, it is stock isnt it?

lol, sling through the doors i hope :bash: do you want the yellow shell back to shit around with, I'm gonna scrap it in a week or two if you don't

ZING! haha why an ae86 diff of all things?

nice wheels :) extra points if you get photos of lifting the body on with a franna :bash:

actually trev, it sat for over 6 months waiting for a cage to go in it as a four door, i got bored of waiting and came up with more ideas, the original plan never involved 2 doors. the approval only took about 4 or 5 weeks did you get much more done to it today/yesterday?

yeah, i did have to have a stiff talk to the mechanic to get it kickin over, i thought 12 months of nothing was quite enough really...

i often get asked if i even have a car, so yeah, it was about time i did post something haha wheels are 15x7 fronts, 15x8 rear diff is from a 1971 104 berlina, is just over 8" and took a good flogging, but I'm not sure how long it will stay, the 4x108 stud pattern gets on my tits. might just modify the axles, theyre friggin huge, 27 spline suckers. front struts are RA60, with adjustable coilovers and koni yellows, and adjustable strut tops, and still struggled to even get 0* camber, so looking at adjustable lower control arms, or swapping to XT130. i like the look of the adjustables though. feel free to ask anything you might wanna know, i don't keep too much secret

so did you work out why its got no get up and go about it? you gonna do the carbs?

hey guys thought it was about time i got serious about a rides thread, seeings as there is alot of dollars going into this car i thought i should atleast boast about it a little :rolleyes: its kind of a long story, but basically i bought it at the very end of 2005/start of 2006, too long ago, off here as a cheap go fast car. picked it up for 1300 unregistered with the 1g, W57 and alfa diff all there. blue plated and LPG certed too... was under the impression it would need a set of turbos and a crossover pipe and it would go. upon getting it home, i realised just what a mess the whole bloody car was. that was it around the time it came home. it then spent many months in the shed, while i learnt alot about turbos and tight engine bays and all sorts of other annoying things. i got it running, and it was soo smokey i switched it off and started on pulling the motor out. rebuilt it and got the gas system rebuilt and tuned, and was making 150 hp with only 8 pound boost and about 40km on the motor. they wouldnt give it a full power run, or boost it up until it had some miles on it. the day i was meant to be taking it to get registered, i drove it to the servo to get fuel, and then it would not start again. after many expletives and so much frustration i wanted to torch it i found this oil pump pulley had completely disintegrated, f@$k knows how. got away with only a destroyed set of factory turbos and replacing the pulley. some how passed roadworthy with turbos that were seized and made horrible screaming noises if you tried to give it any go pedal so i got it registered but the motor was never happy, it always had a tappety noise, which no one could diagnose, and we put it down to valve springs being f@$ked, as couldnt think of anything else. i then got a 6 boost manifold made for it ran with RB20 turbos, saving for something larger. i think i destroyed 4 RB20 turbos, some just wearing out from a shagged oil pump, the last one saw the exhaust wheel find its way to my muffler...gotta love ceramic wheels and gas... it was at this point i got the shits with the car and de-registered it, planning on a re-shell as one of the rails was breaking at a join and you could feel it flexing under acceloration and cornering, new motor and lots more power. when i pulled the motor out and apart, i discovered that i had put 2 of the thrust washers in with the soft side facing the block, destroying the crank and the thrust washers, and possible explaining the strange clutch feelings and maybe the other noises, but I'm still not convinced. i decided i was gonna do the car properly and get a cage done, 6 point weld in and get the motor built by a workshop, go back to petrol just for the ease of power. got put onto mick at signature performance in ipswich who picked the car up from mine in august 08, had the diff and struts in, and had been sanded, soda blasted and primed. after about 2 months he finally got under the car and measured everything for straight, all was well except a 4mm bend from the engine crossmember to the bumper on one of the rails, which he can easily fix, and probably came out of the factory like that. so i was stoked with that, as the factory diff that came out of that body had a panhard with a 45* bend in it, bent axle and cracked bearing casing from a gutter hit before i got it. thats where the car was at when it went to the workshop. so 12 months later, it now looks like this panelvan door hung door on, pillar gone the first attempt was to use the 4 door pillar, but the angles don't quite work. so I'm sacrifcing my panelvan, and we are gonna take the sill, the pillar and half the rear quarter all in one, so everything will be spot on and look factory. i ahve sourced 2 door quarter glass from the states, so the C pillar will get modified and the original glass fitted. this should result in the car actually being indistinguishable from an original two door. ;) hopefully things will happen a bit quicker now its started, and it may have rollcage, 2 doors and paint by around christmas time. with the HKS 1g in it, and a base tune, ready for rebuild and power runs ;) hope i havnt bored anyone too much, i tried to keep it short :D cheers, andy

thats to make up for the lack of work u do but get paid for ;)

might go we shall see got more details, like pricing, whats gonna be competing etc a website maybe?

man up trev, just steal it from the lunch money change ;)

what fuel? what carbies?

ahuh...