WhangareiKE70 Posted September 13, 2011 Share Posted September 13, 2011 Discuss here: viewtopic.php?f=18&t=29239 Wellllllllll, I bought another one. http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing ... =400101753 (Don't know how long that link will stay valid). Dereg, boring. Does great gravel O's however. KE70 slant front 4 door wagon. Standard 4k and K50. Already sold them to a mate (This guy: viewtopic.php?f=17&t=28915) so I have a nice clean engine bay. Well, empty engine bay. Plan is to make a cheapish drift hack, that I can practice drifting in as well as practice and improve my panelbeating/welding/engine building skills on. I know posts without pics suck. But I don't have any at this stage. I'm sure you all know what a KE70 wags looks like by this stage. Plans: Engine: -3SGE Dual VVT-i out of a Toyota Altezza. Rebuilt with a genuine Toyota gasket and seal kit. -Gilmore kit. -ITBs with trumpets and sock filters. -Link or other standalone ECU. Interior: -Strip out most of the interior, sound deadening, bla bla bla. -Fixed back bucket seats. 5 point harness. -Roll cage. -Steering wheel and gear knob of some description, probably generic deep dish suede wheel with carbon g/knob. -Fuel cell and battery in boot. Body: -Get rid of rust, of which there is bound to be plenty to discover. -Satin black doors, bonnet, rear hatch. -Gloss black rest of body. -3M carbon fibre vinyl graphics. -'Adjust' firewall and G/box tunnel to suit engine and g/box. Suspension: -Adjustable front and rear. Haven't fully figured out/decided what I'm going to do here. Ideas/suggestions? Driveline: -Altezza 6 speed box -Custom driveshaft. -As with suspension, not exactly sure what to do with diff. I would like to avoid shortening as this is meant to be a relatively cheap build. Once again, ideas/suggestions? Wheels: -Unsure. Something suitable for the period of the car/winning. 13, 14 or 15 inch, around 8-9 inches wide. Let me know your thoughts in the discussion post. I'm gonna be poor for a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhangareiKE70 Posted September 18, 2011 Author Share Posted September 18, 2011 SOOOOOOO... Pictures, and progress! Some pics of when I got it, on the way home, and when I got it home and parked it up beside my KE70 daily. (2 weeks ago). This is good... just needs more diameter, and longer. Pulling the engine out, to sell to my mate. (Last weekend) Sponsored by CAT light penetrating oil had to lube quite a few/all of the bolts. Some were fairly stuck i.e. typical rusty KE. Should probably have drained the oil out of the engine and gearbox BEFORE pullig them out. Woops. Forgetful me. Me and my mate Braden's KE70s parked up next to each other at the local servo. Got some of the boys to roll out later that night to pick it up, along with my mate Kevin bring his V8 Commy ute for transport duties. Probably could have chucked it in the back of my car but didn't want to get it dirty(er). Being such a light engine and gearbox, 3 of them just manhandled it on to the back of the ute and it was held in place with a single tie down. Haha Which brings us to today. Haven't done too much as have been in Auckland most of the weekend, only got back last night. However today got stuck in, spent an hour or two stripping the front end. Got everything off besides the valance(?) panel, under the windscreen, as some moron who owned it before me actually welded the wipers on (forgot to take a close up picture), so I have to cut them off probably. More work. * sigh* However, I love using the roof as storage, creates heaps of space. Haha Also, Dad stripped the engine down further to find out what is wrong with it. It's most likely a run bearing but we can't be completely sure, so fingers crossed it's a relatively simple and easy (read:cheap) fix. He got as far as taking the rocker cover off and deciding the head looked good, before taking off on his motorbike because the day became sunny. bloody weather, why can't you be crap when I need you to be? But this is how the engine sits now (he put the rocker cover back on) : So semi good progress, only being held up by time and money, as always. Lemme' know what ya think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhangareiKE70 Posted March 31, 2012 Author Share Posted March 31, 2012 Being scrapped. BUT. A better version is taking it's place. Keep an eye out for "Hayden's wagontastic KE70 #3". COMING SOON TO A PROJECT THREAD NEAR YOU. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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