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My Busted Ass Ke55

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After Selling my orange KE55 (stupid stupid me) i had been wanting to get myself anouther rolla for a bit of a project car.

 

Mostly i wanted one so that i could have a go of building a tuff cammed motor by myself.

Well I managed to get a 4K off the forum for $50 with a Ke70 4 Speed so all i needed was a shell to jam it into to get it running.

 

Meanwhile one of the boys at work had bought a rusty Ke55 for a run around, in between decent cars, it got sold to one of the other workmates and now i have it.

 

It has got so much rust over the rear wheel arches that i don't know what to do. Its a nasty yellow colour but it is running and it has a 5 speed (although it doesnt really like changing gears fast).

 

So the specs are...

1980 KE55e

4K-c with 5 Speed

Aircon

15 inch Silvia wheels

Noisy rear shock bushes

and recently fitted.......

twin inch and a half SU Carbys

 

Ive included a few photo's of the car, a photo with my KE55 and my sisters KE35 (which was mine but it was yellow when i had it) and my younger brothers KE70. I also included a photo of my daily driver because i can.

 

I have pulled the spare motor that i have apart and I'm about to get the cam reground to Camtech 609 spec and have the bottom end rebored so that i can re assemble with oversized pistons and new bearings and the like

 

Cheers

Matthew

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Not bad, I like it.

 

Be sure to post how the cam goes, I wan t the same profile I just wont be getting camtech to do it.

 

I want a set of twin SU's, but haven't found a set for myself yet.

 

 

Cheers.

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good luck with the search.

 

I happend to find mine on ebay. The bloke didnt know what they were off of and i got them for 70 bucks. rebuilt them for 100 and made up some linkages and away she go's.

 

Makes quite a bit of difference. Better than the 32/36 that i had on my last one. Very smooth but its a bastard to get started when cold because i have no choke

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