hey people, just thought I would post up my 3 month old ke70 that I bought from a dodgy apprentice mechanic. eg. Cut au falcon springs (that fell out when we lifted the car up), welded stock borgwarner diff, blown head gasket, straight pipe to split sh*t drift tip yeeeee, instrument cluster wasn't working/broken, no locknut key, interior ripped to sh*t/missing a lot, wrong tyres to go with rims?!?!, callipers rattling, steering rack/rack boots destroyed, wheel bearings all shot and to finish it all off lots of body work.........................lucky we like challenges right.

Well, once you've undone what he did its not bad.

 

A bit of careful rust work and a quick spray and it will look superb.

 

I sat around a dinner table with a guy that runs a few tyre shops, and he told stories of guys running stretch that had the bead pop back off the rim and go instantly flat or had the bead separate from the tyre. Trying to fit them in a way they were never designed for...

Thanks for the feedback mate.

Yea it's the fabrication that we are gonna find hard, only because we don't have the equipment or tools :( but yea after we work that out bog prime base and clear it like 10 times, so she looks like glass with some mad depth. Also down the track looking at dropping in a 4age 16v big port quad throttle thing for drift.

This is why I hate these young egg beater wannabe drifters.

Yeah, looks like a reasonable base. Get into it! :)

Looks like you are doing a great job.

 

I do love the light blue colour, and those wheels set it off nicely.

 

What size tyres did you go for?

you lot sound like a bunch of whinging old farts lol (and I'm 30)

 

those tyres look fine to me and i bet they will NEVER pop off the bead unless you hit a gutter......

 

i've run strecthed tyres for years and never had a problem, although there is a limit to useful stretch ;)

Hey guys, nothing bad has happened with the tyres yet but they are 185/55 86v xl on 15x8, have decided to run the tread out on them first and have been pulled over with nothing said :)

Have had the car tuned and am putting a 5 sp in instead of the 4sp (hopefully straight swap).

Also have bought another one to swap the overrated interior and have the engine for spares (until the conversion) and the shell for a track project, so I might have some nice original pieces to share around :)

Then time for the body work to begin!

Btw have never been pulled over everyday until I bought this car ha

Sorry not overrated #original

Have decided to swap most of the interior over

Progress

Must be a fresh interior if you got the A pillar trim off without it crumbling.

Yeah most if it was pretty nice getting underway on the swap now

Dash looks awesome with the 84 silver trim

84 interior completely in! No more rattling dash

Looking good bud, that interior is in awesome condition!! Good job