Its running great after the carby rebuild. Still gutless and a bit of a miss when warmed up, but its smooth and she idles now. One more thing done. The throttle cable lug broke getting it off, just clamped the cable with a bolt for now.

Edited April 23, 201115 yr by ae824ate

Not a bad old ride. Let me know when and where you are gonna post up the pics of the lil spin around the block :) that I subjected you to today lol

Haha, thanks for the spin man, your sprinter is sick. The video didnt turn out well on my phone though. Have you got a rides thread?

I have a short one with the Hachi and the 38 together

 

http://www.rollaclub.com/board/topic/49660-my-ae86-and-ke38/page__p__509487#entry509487

 

That should take you to it

 

if not just click on my profile and look at my posts

 

PS its always good to meet someone who is friendly and into Rolla's

Update time! Heater core was f@$ked and leaking (why it wasnt connected), sourced another one and its sweet now. Found more rust yay, found the vacuum leak to the distributor, so its running 1000 times better now, still missing at a warm idle, but ive got another carby to put on it when i get time. Picked up some wheels today, wrapped with them.! Sit nicely in the guards, and ill look at lowering it soon. Let me know what ya think. Crappy photo's, ill get more soon. Cheers, Luke.

Edited May 11, 201115 yr by ae824ate

looks overrated can't wait to see it finnished man keep with the updated

 

check out my ke30

http://www.rollaclub.com/board/topic/49220-rebuilding-my-77-ke30/page__p__505856__fromsearch__1#entry505856

The word overrated gets thrown around too much. Its far from overrated man, trust me. But i reckon the whels look grouse, makes it look like a different car. f@$k keeping it original, I'm gonna make this old girl shine!! Its stressing me too much to keep it original. Planning body work/paint job, schmick interior, and perhaps a NA 13B, or 12a turbo. We will see what happens.

Plans for now- Save some coin, get out of debt, splurge on the corolla. Then buy an Aristo :yes: My dream car.

HID kit will be here monday or tuesday. Got the day off tomorrow so i will swap the carbies over, and piss off the egr system i think. Also gonna tighten the steering box up, and look at suspension bushes etc.

Bit of an update me thinks. Started sorting the rust issues, but i work a stupid amount of hours and had to dodgey some of it for now. Repairs and welding have been done before (in pics)It is still in daily use, split top radiator hose replaced, fuel filter replaced, cooling system flushed and new coolant, new oil and filter etc. Really craving more power, looking at a few little things, weber/solex and a tighe 104 grind, electric dizzy maybe. Still, I'm not going to fart around with a 4k too much, just want it a bit more pleasant to drive. The $ to hp ratio isnt worth it. Had some spare time today and decided to muck around and polish my rocker cover came up brilliant! Pics don't do it justice, and this was before anoter 3 rounds of autosol.

Edited June 19, 201115 yr by ae824ate

looks good same model as one of mine, i can't find any rust in mine but it has been painted at some stage so might fnd some when it gets stripped for paint

Yeah, i started finding more rust the more i looked for it, it was covered up pretty well with generous amounts of bog >|

drop the rotor in, piss easy job

 

http://www.rollaclub.com/board/topic/50362-13b-conversion-for-ke30/page__pid__528497__st__15#entry528497

Mate if i had the coin to throw around at the moment i would, i know its not a big job. Thanks for you interest man, not sure how this old girl is gonna turn out yet. She is giving me alot of greif, and i don't appreciate finding more rust, and more problems that were covered up! Pissin me off.

Sad to hear about all the dramas & issues that seem to have plagued you with this ride :(

 

However you seem to be getting on top of it all, maybe not as quickly as you'd like but... :y: :D You've also done a great job tidying her up, cam cover looks schweeeeet & it sounds like your daughter would be quite upset with you if you were to get rid of it :laff:

 

Rust is a bitch :yes: "Ahh there's only a little bit there..... *grind* WTF?!?!" is something along the lines of how it goes? :lol:

any progress man?