pics!

Congrats mate about time u get an engine :lolcry:

 

 

Keep up the good work and this will be one sick 10 hopefully i could get mine next to urs one day :wink:

 

 

 

 

 

 

see ya

 

jimi

 

Dreaming hahaha!!

 

 

 

 

 

More pictures of the motor in the car... Its a challenge to get it in...

 

quoted from my facebook: " Cut the shit out of the car, take the crossmember out, then lift the body to the roof then push the motor under it then lower the body then use the engine crane to lift the engine up then put the crossmember in and bolt it in. "

Beams ke10 @_@ never in my wildest dreams would I have thought

Not a bad fit

 

Yeah theres two BEAMS KE10's in Sydney, that ones not finished yet. Its still got a lot to do, but so do I.

Very nice :yes:

 

Can't wait to see this finished and see a quarter mile time!

I've done a few calculators... they reckon it can pull a low 12, I highly doubt it.

Anything sub 14 would be fun!

Wow that's f'ing tight. How did you go height wise?

They are a tall engine.

Props for something very very different.

 

Stu.

 

Shortened cross member for KE10

 

 

Sitting in its new home

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Should be able to fit a decent exhaust into it!

 

 

Sumps abit of a worry but hopefully it won't get ripped off.

 

Mounts have been made but first half of the day went to cutting more of the firewall out because it just wasn't sitting right and the firewall was rooted anyway so might as well start over. Somebody added a brake booster in about 1990..... and they just hacked and stick welded it in.

that is a large hole in the firewall!!!

 

I'm enjoying the progress picks, getting stuck into it. love it!

The drivers side of the firewall wasn't the best, I wasn't happy with it so I thought I might as well redo it whilst I'm here. it will all look standard, bar the ugly box being cut into it. I'm going to try make it as best looking as I can because honestly I didn't want to cut the wall and I didn't think I would need to until I got the engine and tried putting it in. I thought I'd get away with it.... dreaming haha!

haha i like your approach.

 

buy car, buy engine, attempt to insert engine into car........reach for angle grinder.

 

looks like it will turn out well. have you thought of making some sort of bash plate for the sump?

Haha Buy rubbish car, Spend 3 months in garage panel beating it and getting it smooth, paint it, attempt to fit engine and end up scratching it probably, repaint car.. rebuild engine.. Will go on forever!

 

Yeah, that's the plan. I'll cut the sump a little and baffle it, then I'll get a friend to roll me a few tube bars and I'll make an underslung brace the braces up the rails and also acts as a sump guard and crossmember guard.