So I got this little Ke16 from perth earlier this year, and have been meaning to get a progress report on the go

 

Soooooo I flew over to perth and did a deal on a car I had never seen before ( I didnt even know Ke16s existed :hmm:), put it on a truck and flew home, 2 weeks later it arrived at the depot (70kays from me) so I figured it would be easy, get a mate to drive me up there, get in car, drive car home..... If only it was that easy.

 

This is how it was when I got it

 

This is the car overheating for the 8th time on the way home haha, turned a 1 hour trip into a 5 hour trip :bash:

 

Once it was home it lasted 3 days before the sump gasket let go (in a spectacular way) and covered the engine, engine bay, trans & tunnel, diff, springs, well you get the point. so that was the point of no return, this little 4k needed a birthday

 

 

Due to work and various other things that get in the way of fixing cars, it slowly got cleaned and tinkered on untill the start of this week, I was given a 5 day roster break, so it was time to mosh on this beast

 

in the last 5 days I stripped the engine cleaned, replaced and re gasketed everything I could get replacement parts for, cleaned and repainted the engine bay, took all the chrome off and polished it all and painted the rad support, in doing all of this I have found 1 small surface rust patch so I'm stoked that its that clean

 

 

so now we come to today, i wanted to atleast finnish getting the motor in and some of the small things hooked up,

but a mate came round so we knucled down and got it in, plumbed, wired, lubed and fired in next to no time

 

I tried uploading a video but its to big, so I put it on youtube,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SVupUe0_NA&feature=g-upl

 

This is just out of the headers on stale fuel but its a massive modivation.

 

now I know your all thinking it's easy, but this is the first time I have done anything like this. so I'm chuffed with how far we got. It will sit as it is for a week or so then it will be another few days putting the front end back on, and getting it ready for crusing this summer.

 

Thanks for taking the time to read through, And if you guys want to know anything or have any advice for me please feel free to comment.

 

Also a big shout out to pmp16 for hooking me up with some tail light lenses :y: :y: :y: , cheers again mate they look sweet

Got my new wheels blasted and painted today, $20 a rim, now just need to get tyres with the right profile to clear the struts,

 

ill put up some progress photos tomorow, may need to get less agressive lowering blocks for the rear, it got stuck reversing off of the ramps at the workshop :doh:

Welcome to the KE1* wagon club. Not many of them around. Looks awesome so far.

 

This makes me want to lower mine.

Cheers mate, if you plan on lowering them remove your spare wheel carrier, that's my problem.

 

I'm slowly getting it done, todays jobs are:

 

exhaust fitup, Thermo fan (fab up a mount and fit) pick up my new wheels and put the front end back on....

 

ill keep you posted

I pretty much want mine to sit like yours with stockos, hubbies and flappers. The ke20 struts give way too much track so I need to sort out that before I can go low.

such a nice wagon mate

Man that looks incredible, fat chance of me finding one of those over here, but man I'd love one. I can't open the photos you've uploaded, is that just me or ?

 

Cheers

Also a big shout out to pmp16 for hooking me up with some tail light lenses :y: :y: :y: , cheers again mate they look sweet

 

He's a top bloke!! Helped me out with a few bits and pieces.

 

Good solid ke16. Looks like a neat little rocket!!

As previously mentioned welcome to the very prestigious ke1x club.

hey mick the ke16 looks awesome mate :) good to see u have a rides thread

absolutely love the wagons especially as low as urs

good work mate looking foward to future updates .

KE1# series al the way :)

 

always good to help fellow members always happy to help

 

STU ur a champ mate thanks heaps for the help and parts u sent also , u will have a present in mail by start next week gonna send on saturday finally got day off work lol

cheers guys, had a play with it today, got heaps done

 

I can't open the photos you've uploaded, is that just me or ?

 

Heres a few of it, I was having trouble uploading them

 

This is when I got it

 

Motor out

 

And a few random shots of where its at

 

Today we got the flanges for the exhaust welded up, slapped the new wheels n tyres on and mucked arround with a few ideas for the thermo fan

 

 

 

Cheers for all the comments guys, Its good to have other peoples feed back on what I'm doing,

 

back in tomorow, so ill keep you posted on what I get up to

What size lowering blocks are you using? Or are the leafs reset or flipped? Also what rim size are you running. Really liking the way this sits.

as of the new photos its got black mazda "13s with 65profile tyres,

the photos with the white walls are the standard 12" rims with cheese cutter tyres on them

 

its got 3" blocks in the rear, and 2 1/2 reset springs in the front, and thats it,

Cheers for the info, mine will be very low, very soon, hopefully.

low and slow mate, thats my mantra,

 

at its lowest point the body sits 14cm from the ground, but the spare carrier is only 7 or 8cm so it makes driveways interesting

 

I had a look at your wags, its a lot cleaner than mine mate, just needs to be brought down to the earth a little more ;)

I agree, I love cruising at 90kph on the highway. Slow as will be better low as. I just sorted some stock 13" rims so now all I need is blocks for the rear.