Hey all,

We got a overrated 55 that me and my brother went halfs in 2-3 years ago from a one owner old granny. anyways cut a long story short me and my brother were doing a burnout and then donuts and smashed into dads trailer lool. only damange is bumper, grill and right gaurd. I'm currently 16 get my lisence in 5 weeks and I'm on 11 weeks holiday. plans for the car are to paint it killrust red, hoping for a 5k motor, which i still need to find hah and putting a 3k bigport head on that i have spare for my race car with somthing equal to a 212 waggot cam for 3k. budget is around 1500 give or take 500 and i know it doesnt seem much but we have 80 percent of the parts allready and ill be doing all the work myself with a few favours from my parents brother and so on haah, got 2 little bubbles of rust so pretty happy with that. i seen how hard you guys give kids about holidays and projects so please don't lol. ill get some picks up tomorrow for use:)

cheers tyler.

Edited February 28, 201214 yr by xr8racer

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Edited December 3, 201114 yr by xr8racer

At your age you can count on the 1500 going towards rego and insurance. Or is that budget not including getting it on the road?

hoping for a 5k motor,putting a 3k bigport head on that i have

 

:lolcry:

At your age you can count on the 1500 going towards rego and insurance. Or is that budget not including getting it on the road?

uhh not getting insurance and if i did wouldnt see it being much. i got an ef xr which is 300 a year for everything

:lolcry:

wont work?

will be perfect for a turbo set up. 8:1 compression and a huge cam will be slower than a stock 3k

$1500 will go nowhere if you want to do it properly-

 

any motor you get will need a strip down and a freshen up, probably a hone, new rings, maybe bearings, gasket set...

 

Port head, skim head, cut valves and seats, new timing chain & tensioners, grind cam & followers, extractors, new exhaust...

 

That's $2000 gone already...

Sounds like a good base Tyler. :y:

 

Josh :cool:

i have a 3k in the shed thats only done 2-3 hours since freshen up that came from my speedway car last week when we put a new one in but a standard 5k would be better then a highly worked 3k? was puttin out 60hp with a 3.7 diff and 2 ratio gbox

Sounds like a good base Tyler. :y:

 

Josh :cool:

thanks man woulda been good if my brother knew how to drive and didnt crash ahah

nothings been happening on this apart collecting parts and dust:)

Now my race car is gone this should hopefully get some loving:) over my falcon and want a rolla again hah. my mates giving me a ke70 tomorrow that was his old thrasher, will be just getting struts from it and its got all the engine and what not. apprently its got good mags but i doubt it anyways hopefully get some pictures for use tomorrow. budget has gone up also:)

yeeooow picked up the 70 and its got 14inch dragways :D

whats the best way to get your mags shiny? start off with like 320grit and end up around 1800 then polish? also if i clear coat them it will stop surface rust?