danielmiller30

Awesome to read so far mate, tell your mum she needs to get her priorities straight :D sounds like you've done a bit as well i know i wouldnt be able to get as much done in 3 hours as you did

Anyway, so here is how it looked when I bought it, even uglier now without nice wheels! :down: Turns out before I even knew I was going to buy this car, when it was rotting away my brother had bought them for his Ke70 and they look overrated on it! (awful blue plasti dip was peeled off) So with stock wheels on, made it the most embarrassing thing to drive home I had the sun visor down the whole time lol. Wow did I realize what an awesome challenge it was going to be to start working on this POS and yeah I'm up for it!

haha yeah its awful to see, looking a lot better now though! I'm posting a few pics now

Should be an air/fuel ratio screw on the side of the carb which adjusts the idle. Screw it in and out to adjust it or adjust the tension of the throttle cable. Plenty of videos on youtube for that sort of stuff! its easy to located too, its a flat head screw thats spring loaded :thumbsup:

Well, where do I start? The build I am currently doing is saving a completely molested and riced out ke30, full of bog, rust and mould. The first time I saw this car was when me and my mate drove down south of Adelaide so he could purchase it. Ive loved these cars for a bit over a year at the time and loved going out to see them. At the time, the car was rough as guts, full of rust and bog (which apparently the previous old fart owner did...yeah right) and countless more mechanical problems that would need fixing. It was bought from memory I reckon it was $750, not too bad of a deal but needed A LOT of work! Unfortunately, has a lot of rust and on top of that rust was the bog. :bash: Anyway, once my mate owned it, things just went downhill even further from there, no mechanical problems were fixed and the car was looking awful :down: Joel decided to straight pipe the exhaust to a milo tin fart box canon, held on by a coat hanger (sounded awful!), extremely dodgy vinyl wrap the bonnet, put a steering wheel on that he found in the boot which looked like a dogs chew toy, put some rota grid classic wheels on it (only good thing he did), bolt on flares which did not sit right and were held on with bunnings bolts and finally, build a front lip out of floor board with brackets welded onto the tow hooks. All of this other than the wheels made me want to curl up into a ball and cry :lolcry: and I knew if he had it any longer it would be defected because his neighbours hate him so much they reported it to get it defected but the cop couldnt because it was on his driveway but said he will defect it next time he sees it on the road. After all of that banter, the car just sat there for a month or two, the head unit got stolen, the carburetor was stolen (WTF) and one of the locks was munted out, the car was then just sitting and rotting. :( every single car Joel has owned has been tampered with while its parked out the front of his house, had one ke30 stolen :rant:and many more problems with people touching his cars. Anyway, parents were out for a week so I decided it would be a good time to buy a ke30, Joel offered it to me for $450, not too bad! Without a carbie, I had to pull the 4k carb off my ke70 paddock basher, put it on roughly in the pitch black and putter along to my house. I finally owned my dream project car! Here are a few pics of it when joel owned it, looked alright from 100 meters away, I guess....

Love reading this, keep up the good work! How long since the carby has been rebuilt? I rebuilt my Escorts carb and made a world of difference