rob83ke70 Posted August 20, 2009 Report Posted August 20, 2009 The car is a 1970 KE11 2 door sedan. Bit of basket case when we got her, but it is slowly going back together. The plans are as follows: Engine: 4k, rebuilt, balanced, tighe 104 camshaft, twin aisan downdraught carburettors, elec dizzy, extractors, 2" straight through exhaust with 2" tip, between 10 and 11:1 compression ratio, lighter flywheel, not sure whether to go tosco 3.9kg or just machine the stock flywheel yet. Thermofan, probably a heavier alternator. polished aluminium bits. Gearbox/driveline: k40 out of ke55, standard ke11 borgwarner diff. Holes already cut in transmission tunnel, plans to neaten the mess up and make the ke55 box fit neatly as I have a few of them lying around. Unsure about changing stud pattern. Brakes: ke70 slotted RDA rotors, probably a softish pad, maybe bendix gct's. Standard drums on the rear. Upgrade to dual circuit brakes. Wheels/tyres: either steel rims with 4x110 pattern or chrome speedy's with 4x114.3, 13" either way, probably 185/65r13's in as sticky a road tyre as I can get. Still unsure about changing stud pattern or not. Body: rust to be repaired, paint to be repaired. paint is 2pac over acrylic, not a huge fan of technique or colour, but I will be repairing what I've got. Already adjusted doors and had drivers hinges rebushed. have to bend boot hinges to identical shapes as they are wonky. Have to buy bonnet, paint valance and bonnet, repair rust in guards, clean behind guards, and touch some paint up. Plans for sealing boot off and engineering as two seater, sheet aluminium to be used to seal boot and probably replacing door trims as well. New carpet, small non reclinable race seats. Have to repair broken seat mounts, and sort out strong mount points for race harnesses, not happy about how seat belts are at the moment, I think they would pull out of the body in the event of them being needed... Plain black three spoke steering wheel to be fitted. New rubbers need to be fitted. Suspension: front swaybar to be fitted, either carefully fitted whiteline bar done so it does not foul brakes, or kmac bar. Rear leaves have been played with, have 6 leaves per pack and look lower and stiffer than normal. May need to reset front leaf to lower a smidge to match rear of vehicle, strut top modification as shown in faq will not work as most of the weight is taken on the leaf spring not the coils... Plans: this will replace my subaru L series wagon as the daily driver, and I'm planning on competing in khanacrosses and motorkhanas in bathurst. I just want to get into a smaller more fun to drive car, the stationwagon is a bit large and has some scary mechanical ideas in it's design. I'm thinking about naming her "Kell" as it is a KE11... timeframe for completion is by the start of 2011. I'm open to any suggestions and ideas as well, so feel free to comment! Robert Quote
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