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Ella's Dx Ke70


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Hey all,

 

While i was on my way down to the local wreckers with a friend trying to buy car parts for his conformodore we drove past the local Ford specialist wreckers, and i spotted this in the corner of their yard. I Immediately made my mate turn back and abandon his parts mission as i had to go have a look at this car. something just wasnt right about that flat front in the yard...

 

sure enough we asked to go have a look and when i got close enough i realised id found myself a genuine DX rolla!

and judging by all the japanese writing all through the car, and the import plaque on the firewall its come from japan, as I'm was told the only other model that has the smaller radiator and thermo fan is the UK model, which i hardly think would have japanese written lights on the dash and the fuse box...

 

The car itself is in astoundingly good condition except for a few bad rust spots, but the interior is perfect. it doesnt quite run properly but ill post my questions in the relevant section :)

 

anyways thats enough, heres some pics.

 

a shot of the rear. Love those tail lights.

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hrmm doors a bit dinted :y:

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more pics to come ;)

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heres a couple of shots of the rust it has

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the third bad rust patch is on the other side in the same spot as the second pic, and a little bit in the fuel filler too...

 

hrmm my grandfather has announced hes buying a mig welder to build a henhouse for our 5 egg laying chooks and my pet duck (yes i have a pet duck lol) so ill be making use of the mig to do the rust on this one i think...

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heres a pic of the front...

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notice all the extra emissions gear? and the smaller radiator and thermo fan...

any idea where ill get rad hoses? these ones are different to the usual, obviously and my hoses are stuffed :)

also has electronic ignition with a igniter module very much like a 4AGE's coil and of all the convoluted things to have, a oxygen sensor in the exhaust...

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anyone give up any info on the jap spec KE70? especially relating to the engine? looking under it the car has a cat converter too, so maybe i can run it on unleaded without it pingin lol.

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Dash and steering wheel are different... i like them. no tacho tho which fails.

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and heres a pic of the center of the dash, much more modern lookin i think, i def like this, and a proper DIN slot for stereo instead of the old need to butcher me to get a stereo in style dash.

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hrmm no centre console and no door pockets makes me a bit of a sad panda tho :P

 

ill spend some time cleaning her up and i need to get it running too :P

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This is heaps cool.

 

It has a lot of different "little" things, makes it all the more unique and exciting.

 

I'm sure there are alot of people on here who would like to inspect this in person, including myself :P

 

Great find

 

Also those air things in the rear pillars, they look like ones on AE71's not KE70's. What does it say its model is on the firewall?

 

Got any more full engine close up shots and the likes. Is it efi? because It has an oxygen sensor does that mean its efi?

 

Cheers for sharing and great find, good luck with it :P

 

Travis

 

EDIT: It has a choke? so definately not efi, where does the oxygen sensor go to then? I'm confused

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I'm glad you saved it from the crusher Luke.... :P

They would have squashed that car without knowing, or caring, what it was ;)

I'm a bit dissapointed I missed out on it myself (my neighbour works there) :P

 

Definately a rare little find and not too much work ahead of you.........

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