hey everyone, this is only my second topic ( you may remember dohc 4k)

 

last august i saved a ke55 two door lift back from the wreckers with only its motor attached (no g'box, tailshaft or diff centre ) and seeing as dad knew the owner i bought it for scrap value-$100

 

i bought some mesh from super cheap and went crazy with it, cut my air cleaner box thingy and meshed the air cleaner and meshed the grill

i also got some 5 spoke mags for $80 to replace the mix-match steel rims (you'll also see a racing seat in there, one of my ideas that didnt work)

 

it took a while before i got a 5-speed box tailshaft and borg warner style diff then i got it running

 

ive been using it as a part paddock-basher, part driving learning tool since then and it's soon to be pulled apart

 

my plans are to:1. paint it (and get all the rust out)

2. take the engine apart

3. shave the head

4. put extractors on it

5. bore it out 40-thou

 

i've bought the paint two days ago, it's a cool metalic blue nissan colour (probably from a n14/n15 pulsar) and it only cost me $610 (with thinners, hardener etc) which is cheap as chips seeing as it costs as much as a solid colour

(thats the lid of the tin of paint in the sun)

 

so all's well and this is something for me to do before i turn 16 :hmm:

haha you a brave man admitting to being the creator of that thread!! :hmm:

 

FYI - You have yourself a KE50, not a KE55. :y:

FYI - You have yourself a KE50, not a KE55. :hmm:

 

well... chassis number says otherwise...

Weird.. Nice car man. Good colour blue as well

 

Can't wait to see it done up.

Will look good in blue.

 

I am also pretty sure thats a KE50, it sure looks like one. Did you get this off ebay ?

It looks similar to one that was up on there a while back.

Okay, to settle this. KE50's were the KE30 equivalent. They came with a 3K and a black dash. The KE55-P was was the KE55 version. Came with a 4K and tan dash. And it was the only KE55 that wasn't built in oz. (only imported one)

So have you seen any other Liftbacks around?? Live even around at your local wreckers?? Very nice find there. Very rare machine you have. :y: Welcome to the Liftback club :hmm:

Update!

 

sorry i didn't respond to these question's... i forgot

so here goes:

.i didn't get him off ebay-(from the wreckers if you read :D )

.i've seen one other liftback like mine, i saw it up in brissy, lovely orange colour, aparantly there's another liftback around ballina area

 

more updates: i forgot to add to my list that i'm going to water inject it to stop detonating and at the moment i have a system relying on manifold vacuum, sucking air through the bottom of a washer bottle and it sucks the water droplets through the oil breather hose (it kinda works like a bong)

that's the picture of the washer bottle with the air cleaner to the left

that's a picture of the line with water vapour going into the oil breather hose

that's a top veiw of the hoses with the vapour (and yes it is a bit hard to see)

that system was based on this: www.greaseolineplus.com/page2.html

 

my new system is one based loosly off these : http://autospeed.com/cms/A_110369/article.html and http://autospeed.com/cms/A_110368/article.html

my dad is putting water injection in his wrx boat and he had some irrigation foggers left over that run at 50psi , i decided to try it with a windscreen washer motor which runs at 2-3psi, it worked... :)

so i did some simple tests to work out how long my 1.5l washer bottle could take this flow

 

i timed it with a stopwatch and a measuring jug and found it ran at 50ml per minute,

that makes 200 minutes per litre which in turn is about 300 minutes (or 5 hours) for my bottle :P

 

my other modification i am hoping to get is an efi setup-fingers crossed

 

i'm looking to take him apart in another 3-4 weeks and painted over the chrissy holidays

 

max

 

p.s. if you noticed i was reffering to my car as him, yes he has a name, louie :argh:

More updates

 

took my car apart yesterday so i could get the panels into the panelbeaters :y:

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dad's going to take them in on monday

 

i've also designed a ram-air box out of aluminium to go behind the grill

 

 

max

Oh nice. She's coming along... :y:

yes as kj here also has a 55 liftback, quite a nice car, once it grows on you

more updates!

 

pulled the engine out on sunday,

dad went to the engine rebuilders to get a price on a rebuild kit and it costs $395 (thats with all gaskets, rings, bearings and new pistons)

but, i got some oversized pistons from camerondownunder and the rebuild kit's probably going to be less than half that price :P

 

dad also took the front guards, grill surround, apron and bonnet down to the panelbeaters today to get them painted :D

 

max

more updates!

 

pulled the engine out on sunday,

dad went to the engine rebuilders to get a price on a rebuild kit and it costs $395 (thats with all gaskets, rings, bearings and new pistons)

but, i got some oversized pistons from camerondownunder and the rebuild kit's probably going to be less than half that price :P

 

dad also took the front guards, grill surround, apron and bonnet down to the panelbeaters today to get them painted :D

 

max

 

$395 :jamie: Thats cheap as!

$395 :P Thats cheap as!

 

yes, well it's mates rates

I decided to get off my arse and update this...

 

i ended up getting the rebuild kit for less that $395 ($325 in fact) with 60 thou oversized pistons :no2:

the mighty 4k is down at the rebuilders, getting bored out and i will take the head in to get shaved when i get back from my holiday.

 

panelbeater/painter has taken my car away from me today aswell and hopefully should be done when i get back too

 

I've also had some more innovations for my engine :y:

 

I got 4k efi gear with a haltech programable computer, and tidied up the wiring harness, got a bigger throttle body (from a hyundai excell, lol)

fine tuned my water injection system by running two windscreen washer pumps in-line to produce 45 psi and having that triggered by a vacuum switch on a relay

designed a cold air intake with a commodore/liberty airbox

I'm going to make an insulator spacer for my intake runners

got thermo fans to replace the engine fan

and i've also got a bigger radiator from a ae90/nova, which are cheap to buy new aluminium cored ones ($150!) and best of all, i got this copper one free

 

max

Edited March 13, 200917 yr by maxyboy55