Hey all,

Relatively new to these forums but I thought I would post up a couple of photos of my KE70 project. It is a 2 door conversion from a 4 door. It’s had the B-pillars moved back about 200mm and the front doors extended to suit. Just picked up the wheels for it this week, I had them sandblasted and then powder coated at my uncle’s powder coating business and polished up the dish and I think they come up Mickey Mouse. Only got the pair for the front so am trying to chase up another pair for the rear, slightly wider ones. It’s going to run a S13 front end with a SR20det with RB20box and R31 diff.

Hope ya all like it.

 

Keep Rollin

-Mish

 

Nice... I have seen pics of this in various forums. It was for sale recently did you buy it?

 

More importantly is it still in SA?

 

Is it registered as a two door?

 

Give us some more info most people would be keen to know :bash:

i don't think it can be registered as a 2door hence it don't have intrusion bars n shit if its the one my mates dad built. but all in all its a realy nice looking car allways thought of someone making it into a track beast!!

i don't think it can be registered as a 2door hence it don't have intrusion bars n shit if its the one my mates dad built. but all in all its a realy nice looking car allways thought of someone making it into a track beast!!

 

 

ah ok....

 

Well I just did a little google searching and found a pic of a two door with flat front and got a little excited.

 

This thing needs a flat front conversion then it will look pretty close to a jap TE71. It will be full of delicious awesome and win when this occurs :bash:

Yeh I bought it not long ago.

It was in SA but I brought it home to melb... I'm in the process of getting it registered.

I can't go spending too much money on it yet untill my LX Torana is on the road again

as that has been my main project, but it is coming along so hopefully it wont be too much

longer till I can start building the KE.

i don't think it can be registered as a 2door hence it don't have intrusion bars n shit if its the one my mates dad built. but all in all its a realy nice looking car allways thought of someone making it into a track beast!!

 

Would be interesting to know how much he would charge to do other people's KE's into two doors. Some people would be very keen I would imagine :bash:

if this had a flat front conversion it would be pure win! will be following this one :bash:

 

oh and u can get the jap spec rear lights off ebay to make it look a lil bit closer to the real thing!

Edited June 5, 200917 yr by southslide

 

Some inspiration maybe - this is the dx front end but still hot hot hot :bash:

Yeah that one looks overrated.

I want to get the chrome bumpers like thats got too.

Thats a genuine one yeah?

That's sweet as. So the doors are made from scratch? The conversion could be easier using AE71 panel van doors then moving the B pillars to suit?

oh and u can get the jap spec rear lights off ebay to make it look a lil bit closer to the real thing!

 

Nice car! love the 2 door look~!

 

have you got a link for these jap spec taillights?

any pics...I'm keen on a set for mine!

 

josh

how much do you know about the car?

 

this is the one that was on ebay? bloke selling it was a rude motherf@$ker when i rung him, was tempted to buy it and bring it up here, ive got full engineering approval to do mine using van doors.

i find it hard to believe the doors and pillars were made from scratch, which is what he told me, and that the glass is perspex.

would give me no info on how it was done or anything, so i told him to shove it and hung up, he was obviously trying to avoid the question of, can it be engineered, your gonna have a hard time i would imagine, having already done the work then trying to get it approved...

 

can you please take all sorts of pics of the inside, of how the pillar is done, how its finished off, what trims are used etc.

 

just for ideas on doing mine, I'm pretty sure how i wanna do it, and me and the engineer have nutted out the specifics, just interested to see how this one was done.

 

cheers, andy

Van doors are quite similar to the length of the doors on mine. Never had a van door to measure against. If someone knows the length of Van doors I would be keen to know. The doors on mine have been made out of 4 front KE sedan doors (the front section chopped just behind the middle and the back section chopped just infront of the middle making 1 long door joined together). The B pillars are the same pillars that have been cut out and moved backwith other upper sill's welded in to fill the hole. The trim is all stock KE sedan interior, still got a bit of modifying to do to the B pillar covers as the pillars are on more of an angle backwards.

i was keen to buy it but wanted it as a daily and would have been a stupid idea. hehe.

 

looks tops thou, well done!

mines gonna be a daily/circuit warrior :bash:

 

I measured doors -

2 door 1200mm measured on body line

4 door 945-950 measured on body line

 

thats from a mate of mine, i could measure mine, but havnt been bothered yet

 

did he cut down a rear door to fill the hole or did he custom make the rear section?