D.McKiggan

Well the car was finished in the end. We raced in the 2015 Classic Adelaide Rally but had trouble midway through the first day with fuel tank troubles. The old foam in the tank broke down with the ultimate fuel we ran. This caused all the fuel lines to be blocked and the car was just starving of fuel. All fixed that night but lost a few stages. Anyway now I am back to circuit racing in the IPRASA class and having a ball. Going to our IP Nationals at Phillip Island in November and racing with another 44 U2L cars. Hoping to do well.

Still lurking around with my long list of jobs to do. Want to get back to the track but so much work to do!!!!

Hi guys, KE15 - About 1.28.0 around Mallala but is been such a long time.... KE-20 - 1.22.003 Mallala KE-20 - 1.23.3 Oran Park GP KE-20 - 1.12.5 Barbagello (Long time ago) can't be quite as organised as Rob to find the natsoft links. Still building the Red beast Rob. Back soon.... Cheers David

Hi John, Hoping to be there on the friday night. Not going to push as hard this year to the point of stressing parts & tyres. We had the Prologue today and i made Dad drive this year. He puts so much time into the car and i seem to have the fun so it was time to let him have some fun. It worked a treat with a slower than normal time being run. You might ask is that bad? Nope, as now we are quite early away each day and not subject to stage closures, faster cars coming up & passing you mid stage ect. Should be a good year. Just have to monitor tyre wear as coming out of tight corners today it is now quite easy to light up the rears. We cannot change tyres during the event or you get a 5 min penalty. Hope to see you at the party friday night. The "A" arm is called a Lotus A Frame and acts as a tramp bar to stop diff wind up. Can show you closer friday but need to use rubber mounts for IPRA rules. We use a solid spherical bush in the centre which is a no no in IPRA. David

Oh and here is the office for the next 5 days....

Another update...... Went OK at scrunineering. Found a few small things like no reversing lights working, no window washer tank installed and front indicator was not working. Nothing to serious to stop us getting approval to run. The car was then weighed in at 850kg's. The drive home was interesting as i smelt fuel and the car started to missfire a bit. Pulled over and popped the bonnet to see that the fuel banjo going into the rear weber had worked out!!!. It was pissing fuel everwhere. So turned off and waited for the service crew to come with some washers to replace the lost items. Car fire narrowly diverted. Then it was noticed that the changing of 5th back to 4th was still getting to be real difficult. So pulled the gearbox and replaced one of the internal syncho guides. Perfect now. Next problem was the A frame was making a "clunck" sound under hard accelation. Found some free play in the centre bearing location point on the diff. Fixed that one as well. So if all goes well we should be on the Prologue approx 1.00pm tomorrow. Should get some good camera footage as i have just added another camera to the front bumper bar. This gives it the go-cart feel of being on the ground - fast. Will post this on U-tube hopefully tomorrow. Hoping for a problem free event. DMC

Here Tis..... Pictures show the middle intermediate plate (full 1 pc intake/exh profile) and this has 3 dowel pin's locating them all in alignment. This allowed the porting to be done to both head and then intake/exhaust manifolds each seperatly. When bolted together it all fits for a perfect flow. Also the fixed up fuel pump system with new pump ect. Its all the small things that make a difference. DMC

Hi All, Just thought i would update you on the final testing of our KE15 for this year. Just had it down at Four Performance at Parafield for its final tune and check. See one of the runs on You tube: We ended up finding out that the fuel pump was faulty which stopped the 4psi of fuel pressure needed for webers. It was running at about 1.5Psi which shows up on long power runs with the weber fuel bowl running dry, this then started to lean out the mixture at the high end. This was fixed with new fuel pump which should now maintain the pressure required. Bloody amazing what Dyno's can show when you are testing on them. The final power figure was about 105 Bhp at the rear wheels. Most importantly the torque figures were up about 25% from last year. We custom made our intake manifold with a intermediate plate which allows porting from both sides. When bolted up with location dowel's this all matched up perfectly. Another set of ceramic coated extractors were also used this year which should keep temps down. Anyone out watching the rally in SA in approx 2 weeks time come and say hello. David

Very Clean... What model / brand is the front spoiler?? Availible local SA? Keep up the good work. I hopefully will be back at the track in 08 with another KE20 chasing you around!!! David McK.

Cool car. Just need to lower the whole thing by about 2" and it would look totally awesome!!! keep up the mighty KE20 tradition!!!!! DMC :D

Its bright RED now and the photos don't really show this as what your eyes do. Just back from painting and now starting to re-assemble. This one wont make it in this years classic so will be using the KE15 as suspected. Hopefully can get some leave from work and really get stuck into the project. David

Hi Dale, We have a "Fitch the rubber man" in Adelaide who supplied me mine. Cost $5 / m. Fits perfectly, and hides any gaps. DMC

Hi Guys, I have built about 8 or so 2T-G / 3T-G over the years. Great engine to work on for the power you get from them. Add Webers and the wisco piston kit to the 3T block and this brings it out to approx 1940cc's. I purchased the 304 & 288 TRD cams, increased the compression to about 10.5 : 1 and ported the head out rather large (this is where the most power is gained) to get it to breath. It revs up to 8000 all day and the engine puts out about 200 hp / flyweel. Put this into a 800kg KE20 and its scary !!. Great fun on the track. DMC

I love the tuned length extractors. Are they the TRD ones? Also is that a compressor for an airconditioner is see located in the engine bay. Has the car an after market A/C unit? Love the overall condition :yes: . Hoping to get my one looking as neat! DMC

Its getting there...... Its been a slow road as most re-builds are. I have just made the decision to ramp up the work level and get a professional involved. I was looking at where to get my car painted and i noticed a sign post on the next street from where i live. It had " Paint & Panel" so i called the guy. He came around with his son and looked over the car as i explained what i needed done. It turned out he is a panel beater / painter by trade and has just gone back to working on cars again from his home buisness. He looker over my train wreck and took an interest in a charity case for the year!!. So now it's in his shed getting the flares fitted / final rub down and then painted inside & out. So shortly the pics will be of the shell looking a bit cleaner than these ones. Will keep ya posted! DMC