JDM55

after setting up in the oven first thing was paint the silver insert,since I'm painting this 2 differnt colours, one is going to be painted then masked up, then the 2nd colour painted then unmasked and cleared the hole thing,also commonly called two tone painting ,bla bla bla so heres the first colour , its just a random mix , silver:: then the other parts that surround that piece also were painted to keep it all the same .... custom dash thingy::: the ash tray and the heater control cover also got the silver:: couldnt find the pic of the masking ,but it was fiddley lol,any way here what it look like when finished::: can kinda see where I'm going with this now......

here i got hold of some gauges to fill the holes, I'm running boost, temp and oil pressure ,just some basic ones ,tho i like the look of them, they have a smoked out look when there off and light up blue when there on ,pretty cool, heres with some power going in to them and got the lights working ..... also started to make a mini loom to make it easyier to hook up later on ..... so had a think and had to come up with some colours for the interior, always a hard choice, in the end i decided didnt just want black this time tho i do like the darker colours, so went with a very dark grey with a bit of dark silver for insert colours , alot of modern cars seem to have the simular interior colour scheme, and i think thats the look i was going for , a modern look but still keeping the old skool flavs :) heres the dash striped down totaly to the plastic, from past experience when you paint plastic car interior parts they can be very waxy and can do some strange things when you put paint down on them, not taking any chances here i scotched the shit out of this with the paste then a light wet rub with some fine paper and then was hosed down and washed off very well,followed by a good dry down and several passes of prepsol :) yes i go overboard, but for good reason

ok well where i left off was at the engine, was pretty much finished there but unfortunatley i found some oil leaks and other small niggley problems with the thing , so ive pushed that aside for the time being, just needed a break from that thing, any way for a change of direction , so a few small things that i could do not to hard and something where i didnt have to hurt my brain was in order lol so heres my attemp at the dash, now i had all ready modded the corolla dash to take the 180sx cluster so thought be a good time to finish off that :: heres my modded corolla dash with 180sx cluster:::

well I'm coming back ! been a while since i been on here , been having some time out with a few health issues plauging my advance on this project, but slowly getting better and have been putting a few hours back into the car again, soo stay tuned for some updates and burbles coming soon :)

good luck with it !! hope you have a lot of patience!@ :) give em a yell if you need any advice on a subject ,tho there are others on here that have actualy finished there sr conversions and maybe be able to help more than i can , good luck with it

haha thanks alot mate, but my health has been prety bad of late and not alot has been done to the car ,just working on getting well, the car will get more work done eventulay ,cheers for your comment

yeah mate it will still happen , but due to some serious health issues ive had, its had to be put on hold , ill come back to it when i get back on my feet again , no rush at the moment.

yeah id be keen mate,il pm you

ALL DONE!!!!!! GREAT SUCCESSE!!!! thanks guys for responding, managed to finished off today , pretty much changed over the manifold, and water pump, put a new spigot bearing in,easy as used the auto fuel pump and just blocked up the return line, changed over the thermostate housing, bolted the fly wheel on ,made a dodgey clutch alignment tool , got the 5 speed bolted up etc etc etc etc started after a few seconds,idles well, can't see any leaks so looks all good, runs realy well took it for a cain up the road seems to be good, alitlte slipping on the clutch,but not huge, no more huge back fires and starts first click of the key, no more stalling every 2 seconds,revss out nice and smooth, so pretty happy to pull that all off after that big effort ;) cheers guys

well got the 4k out of the rolla, and now have the 2 engines sitting beside each other so could get a better look at whats going on still not convinced this will work hahaha, i guess just have to take you guys word for it , so first thing , there was no spigot bearing in the auto crank, as advised, next thing i found the water pump was completely stuft , so removed the water pump from the manual, put them side by side and they look the same how ever the auto pump flange where the pulley bolts to,is alot thicker , and sits alot higher than the manual pump,probably about 4-6mm hopefuly i can just space the pulley out abit to match the main cranks pulley................ which brings us to the next difference the crank pulley on the auto is a lot larger than the manual????? also the fuel pump has a fuel return port and the manual one has only the one in port for fuel, wonder if i can block off the return port with a bolt or plug or sumthing or should i just swap the pumps over????? next thing ,the autos exhuast manifold sitts at a differnt angle to the manual one , so ive removed the manifold from both , they both seem to have the same ports and bolt up the same tho so bonus, removed the torque convertor thing and the plate that was bolted to and checked the manual backing plate fitts perfect, what else,,,, aw the thermostate housing , one the manual it has 2 probes and wires off it where the auto has one and a bunch of vacumm lines going into a freaky looking thingo, so yanked that off and will swap that over too, the clutch was still pretty good so thats good, but ill need a tool to realign, it does autocheap or bursons sell anything like that???? also can that spigot bearing be removed??? i tryed to try it out but its tight as, going to have a play tomorrow night after work and see if i can make it in to one engine rather than 2 ,ill keep you guys up to date with how things go

cool thanks for the tip mate, be looking at doing this friday or sat so any tips be helpful cheers

awesum thanks guys, just pulled the 4k from a ke70 its out and i was eying up the difernces between the 55 and the 70 blocks, as far as i can see its the same block with a few different bolt on parts,ill get a better look tomorrow when i get the engine out of the 55 , cheers

hi probably a realy stupid question but urgently need an answer, i have a ke70 with a 4kc auto and i want to swap it into a ke55 that also has a 4kc but manual , I'm i right in asuming that i should be able to bolt the manual fly wheel to the auto engine and use the manual gear box?? please help as I'm in the middle of pulling it all apart,thanks guys ,

great work mate, looks like alot of hard work gone in ,be coming to check it out soon :y:

hahaha trying mate I'm trying

haha yeah mite give it a go , but not for a while , going on to the fuel system i think next, how does this sound???this is what ive been thinking bout doing :: vl turbo intank lift pump surge tank 044 main fuel pump 3/8th bundy tube hard lines and braided lines for the flexible hoses, you think this will work ok??

just a quick vid showing the better side of the engine test lol ,feed backs?

haha thanks mate don't know about show i wish it didnt leak and worked as good as it turned out lol. car is going blue ,same as the engine colours

Cheers for the adivce ive read a few other guides and they were syaing you have to take the cas out, realy don't want to touch that at this stage as all the timing marks and stuff has to be right , I'm still thinking about what I'm going to do, i may ask a mechanic to do it for me ,even tho i hate paying people to do stuff for me ,just have to see where the cards fall ,at the moment trying not to think to much about it casue it stresses me out haha,cheers for the advice tho

lol umm nah its cool , id rather sell it and try get some money back or finish it ,can't decided what i want to do yet ,I'm so close yet so far away drving me mental , hows the fittment going for you ? got it sitting in there ok yet?

yeah man it does,seems to have happened a bit too much on this build,yeah ill have a think about it mite be able to find a solution in a few days

yip,,its leaking n th eleft side ,top corner and middle ive had the manifolds off,injectors out fuel rail off the sump off,the lower oil pan off,turbo off pipe off everything pretty much stuck to the block, such the biggest mission, just don't want to get to involed with pulling heads off and all that , I'm by no way a mechanic ,all thats stuff is abit way out off my skill level, been search ing the net for alternitives to removing it maybe could scrap the old sealer of the edges and try sealing it from the out side , but probably wont work, any advice I'm open for sugestions ,

well totaly destroyed this week end, :sob: pretty much everything ive done on the engine so far ,that is totaling 5-6 weekends of hard out work has been for nothing ,and will have to be done again,pretty pissed about the whole thing, realy woundering now if this hard work is going to be worth it at all, pretty much had the engine finsihed or so i thought, got it off the engine stand ,and onto a pallet , spent several hours seting it up for a start up,this included setting up the radiator ,connecting hoses,filling the radi with water, setting up the computer and the million wires that comes off it, attaching engine looms filling engine with oil fitting air flow meter and air filter fitting fly wheel and starter motor setting up a oil pressure light fitting air piping with clamps and blow off valve for test, etc all took hours to set up, went to check if the oil was full and found that it was way over full?? checked again still way over full??? drained some out checked again, still over full? very strange took along long time to work out what was going on,drained nearly all the oil out ,complete waste of fresh oil, check again,still over full!!!!!!!!! WTF WAS STARTING TO GET VERY ANOYED AT THIS STAGE, drained all the oil out completely, check again , empty?????? checked again full!@@!!!!!!!!!!!!!! long story short , what i suspect thats happened:::: when sealing on the lower oil pan, the sealer probably has squeased out in a big blob right where the dip stick tube ends,so when the dip stick goes in to the tube its actuly rubing on the sealer ,which is covered in oil so when its pulled out it gives a random strange reading, havnt pulled the sump off yet but thats what i susspect has happen, and can actulay feel the sealer when sliding the dip stick very slowly, so thats drama number 1, pretty much have to pull the sump off and hopefully i can get to the area that has sealer every where that is if thats the problem, next there is a oil leak from the front cover actualy there is 3 points that are leaking and ironicly the frnt cover was the one thing i didnt pull off,and seal ,heres where the big drama comes in, to remove the front cover properly, the engine has to be pretty much stripped this includes the rocker cover , that i had problems with before and some how i managed to get it to seal well this time and realy don't want to have to pull it off again,the sump ,which would have to come off any way and not a big deal but that leads to the secondary sump also has to come off again i have already taken that off and resealed it so another waste of time , and then pretty much everything on the top of the engine, exhuast manifolds injection mani folds all the water piping ,the crank angle sensor, timing issues with plulling that out and putting back in, and then the whole head has to come off!!!!!!! all that to get the front cover off to fix some small oil leaks , so all very disapointing stuff on the bright side, the new wiring board i made worked very well so that was a plus and also there were no water leaks also a plus considering how the water pipes are set up on these engines,under the manifolds, also the fuel rail isnt leaking another plus, but all that is pretty much undone if i have to go throught the front cover removal process, grrrrrrrrrr :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: any one want abuy an sr? lol

assembled the fuel rail today, got the injectors in and set them up to test for leaks nearly there ,over view:::: also made some meaty hooks to get the engine off the stand a bit easyier this time

yeah i like shiney, yeah wasnt sure bout the heat wrap stuff, but i don't even know if I'm going to be able to use this dump pie any way, it sitts close to every thing ,not good in the eyes of mr engineer, any way its simple to remove if i have to,