Nissan Blue Ke55 + Worked 4k

[maxyboy55]

hey everyone, this is only my second topic ( you may remember dohc 4k)

 

last august i saved a ke55 two door lift back from the wreckers with only its motor attached (no g'box, tailshaft or diff centre ) and seeing as dad knew the owner i bought it for scrap value-$100

 

i bought some mesh from super cheap and went crazy with it, cut my air cleaner box thingy and meshed the air cleaner and meshed the grill

i also got some 5 spoke mags for $80 to replace the mix-match steel rims (you'll also see a racing seat in there, one of my ideas that didnt work)

 

it took a while before i got a 5-speed box tailshaft and borg warner style diff then i got it running

 

ive been using it as a part paddock-basher, part driving learning tool since then and it's soon to be pulled apart

 

my plans are to:1. paint it (and get all the rust out)

2. take the engine apart

3. shave the head

4. put extractors on it

5. bore it out 40-thou

 

i've bought the paint two days ago, it's a cool metalic blue nissan colour (probably from a n14/n15 pulsar) and it only cost me $610 (with thinners, hardener etc) which is cheap as chips seeing as it costs as much as a solid colour

(thats the lid of the tin of paint in the sun)

 

so all's well and this is something for me to do before i turn 16 :hmm:

[Taz_Rx]

haha you a brave man admitting to being the creator of that thread!! :hmm:

 

FYI - You have yourself a KE50, not a KE55. :y:

[maxyboy55]

FYI - You have yourself a KE50, not a KE55. :hmm:

 

well... chassis number says otherwise...

[WinKE55]

Weird.. Nice car man. Good colour blue as well

 

Can't wait to see it done up.

[Doogs]

Will look good in blue.

 

I am also pretty sure thats a KE50, it sure looks like one. Did you get this off ebay ?

It looks similar to one that was up on there a while back.

[JiP]

Okay, to settle this. KE50's were the KE30 equivalent. They came with a 3K and a black dash. The KE55-P was was the KE55 version. Came with a 4K and tan dash. And it was the only KE55 that wasn't built in oz. (only imported one)

[JiP]

So have you seen any other Liftbacks around?? Live even around at your local wreckers?? Very nice find there. Very rare machine you have. :y: Welcome to the Liftback club :hmm:

[maxyboy55]

Update!

 

sorry i didn't respond to these question's... i forgot

so here goes:

.i didn't get him off ebay-(from the wreckers if you read :D )

.i've seen one other liftback like mine, i saw it up in brissy, lovely orange colour, aparantly there's another liftback around ballina area

 

more updates: i forgot to add to my list that i'm going to water inject it to stop detonating and at the moment i have a system relying on manifold vacuum, sucking air through the bottom of a washer bottle and it sucks the water droplets through the oil breather hose (it kinda works like a bong)

that's the picture of the washer bottle with the air cleaner to the left

that's a picture of the line with water vapour going into the oil breather hose

that's a top veiw of the hoses with the vapour (and yes it is a bit hard to see)

that system was based on this: www.greaseolineplus.com/page2.html

 

my new system is one based loosly off these : http://autospeed.com/cms/A_110369/article.html and http://autospeed.com/cms/A_110368/article.html

my dad is putting water injection in his wrx boat and he had some irrigation foggers left over that run at 50psi , i decided to try it with a windscreen washer motor which runs at 2-3psi, it worked... :)

so i did some simple tests to work out how long my 1.5l washer bottle could take this flow

 

i timed it with a stopwatch and a measuring jug and found it ran at 50ml per minute,

that makes 200 minutes per litre which in turn is about 300 minutes (or 5 hours) for my bottle :P

 

my other modification i am hoping to get is an efi setup-fingers crossed

 

i'm looking to take him apart in another 3-4 weeks and painted over the chrissy holidays

 

max

 

p.s. if you noticed i was reffering to my car as him, yes he has a name, louie :argh:

[maxyboy55]

More updates

 

took my car apart yesterday so i could get the panels into the panelbeaters :y:

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dad's going to take them in on monday

 

i've also designed a ram-air box out of aluminium to go behind the grill

 

 

max

[JiP]

Oh nice. She's coming along... :y:

[Murd 55]

yes as kj here also has a 55 liftback, quite a nice car, once it grows on you

[maxyboy55]

more updates!

 

pulled the engine out on sunday,

dad went to the engine rebuilders to get a price on a rebuild kit and it costs $395 (thats with all gaskets, rings, bearings and new pistons)

but, i got some oversized pistons from camerondownunder and the rebuild kit's probably going to be less than half that price :P

 

dad also took the front guards, grill surround, apron and bonnet down to the panelbeaters today to get them painted :D

 

max

[08ftw]

more updates!

 

pulled the engine out on sunday,

dad went to the engine rebuilders to get a price on a rebuild kit and it costs $395 (thats with all gaskets, rings, bearings and new pistons)

but, i got some oversized pistons from camerondownunder and the rebuild kit's probably going to be less than half that price :P

 

dad also took the front guards, grill surround, apron and bonnet down to the panelbeaters today to get them painted :D

 

max

 

$395 :jamie: Thats cheap as!

[maxyboy55]

$395 :P Thats cheap as!

 

yes, well it's mates rates

[maxyboy55]

I decided to get off my arse and update this...

 

i ended up getting the rebuild kit for less that $395 ($325 in fact) with 60 thou oversized pistons :no2:

the mighty 4k is down at the rebuilders, getting bored out and i will take the head in to get shaved when i get back from my holiday.

 

panelbeater/painter has taken my car away from me today aswell and hopefully should be done when i get back too

 

I've also had some more innovations for my engine :y:

 

I got 4k efi gear with a haltech programable computer, and tidied up the wiring harness, got a bigger throttle body (from a hyundai excell, lol)

fine tuned my water injection system by running two windscreen washer pumps in-line to produce 45 psi and having that triggered by a vacuum switch on a relay

designed a cold air intake with a commodore/liberty airbox

I'm going to make an insulator spacer for my intake runners

got thermo fans to replace the engine fan

and i've also got a bigger radiator from a ae90/nova, which are cheap to buy new aluminium cored ones ($150!) and best of all, i got this copper one free

 

max

Edited March 13, 2009 by maxyboy55