hey all

 

I first bought my ke55 off ebay, it had:

-a new blood orange paint job

-2" lowering blocks

-no engine

-no locks

-no side windows

-half a loom

 

 

 

The plan was to have a nice ke55 daily driver that was nice to look at and reliable.

I decided to keep the stock interior just tidy it up a little with reapolstering the seats in black, new black carpet, new black headliner.

I have bought 6 new auto meter guages which i am making a new gauge cluster out of.

The gauges include:

-Speedo

-Tahco

-Water Temp

-Fuel Level

-Oil press

-Volts

 

 

 

I am also taking out the ignition and replacing it with a switch for accessories, a switch for reds and a push start button.

 

I am putting in an alpine flip out screen above the shifter, two alpine SR speekers under the dash and two under the pastel shelf, a kenwood amp under each of the front seats and two kenwood subs fibreglassed into the boot.

Also fitting an alarm and power windows.

 

 

I have hidden all the wiring in the engine bay to make it look alot cleaner and attaching it to a drycell battery.

I decided to keep the 5k engine with a 5 speed with twin carbies and extractors with a 2.5" exhaust with dump pipe.

i pulled off the brakes to paint them cherry red.

It looks good man, can't wait to see that motor in her

good luck man

a great start can't wait for the build

Original door trim from donor car.

 

Engine finally going in. it was hard doing it on a dirt road.

 

Engine in.

 

Donor car.

 

Painted brakes. before and after.

Sick chromes bro. Are they triple dip?

Looks to be agood starting point, hopefully they did a good job with the paint.

Those chromies on the blue car are awful, hope you don't plan on using them lol...

Good looking car, I'll be watching this thread. I ALSO hope you aren't gonna use those chromies...

No i am definetly not using those chromies, i will be selling them with the blue rolls when i sell it.

 

 

Heres an update picture

nicde project

hahah good to see that blue ' car ' that I once owned going to a good use.

A few things have happened since the last update.

I have the pulled the 5k back out to tidy up the engine bay. While the engine was out i cleaned it all up and painted it mat black.

I painted the x-member, brake lines, fuel lines and steering rack gloss black.

The engine bay is going to be all orange with black 5k with random chrome/stainless and red bits.

 

The gauges have been fitted into the dash along with the push start and the entire dash has been painted mat black.

 

looks killer man can't wait to see progress.

 

you changin the wheels later on or keepin the ones on there.

Ill probably keep those rims on it for now until i find something better. Those 20s won't be going on it.

5k is back in the car but not running yet. looks good though.

nice neat little car :)

don't mind me asking, how much did it set ya back?

Cheers