Sr20 Conversion To Ke55 Plus Rebuild Plus Pimpage

[shaded_shadows_KE55]

feel free to call me mate you know what i can do with it. I got the parts to finish it. ask me and ill send as many parts as i can afford to part with oh ps my sr20 ke55 2door passed inspection

[JDM55]

heya Ryan,

Been following your thread mate. been really exciting stuff.

shame to see you sell it, hope you can find a garage for her and get back to it when you are able.

get well soon mate

 

 

 

Thank you,i appreciate the comments , has been a ruff last 6 months, how ever on the up side , ive managed to finally find a decent doctor and hes been helping me get back on track with my health issues, sooooo this means ive been up and about and actualy able to do a bit of work ,and i have just started back working on the car :) tho i have to take it a bit slow ,but just the fact that I'm able to do something on the car makes me happy, i realy don't want to sell this car, ive had it a very long time and the amount of hard work and very long hours apon hours of designing things learning about the engine and wiring ,thousands of dollars spent ,and countless hours of surfing the net for infomation and pictures and ideas ,heart break over the countless problems and issues that i had to get thru, all this makes me realy want to see it finished, so i can at least say "hey this is what i built by myself with very little help.

tho the fact that now my finances are pretty much zero, so in order for me to get this on the road is still looking a bit doubtful,

if you look at the very first post i made about this project i said the budget was pretty much I'm broke,back then i had a tiny bit of money that was all used up ,and now i can realy say that i am broke,but i will still try my best to piece this thing together with what ive got and probably callin a few favours for help here and there ,cause I'm still not fully able to crouch and roll around under a car ,so a bit of help will probably be needed.

 

just wanta say thanks to everyone who has read my thread and commented ,and giving support and encouraging comments , these words definatly give me extra motivation to carry on ,so thanks guys ,i hope out of all this some one has got some ideas or learnt to do some thing maybe they didnt know about ,

or even just a of enjoyment looking at the pics and seeing the car start to take shape,we all love reading a good build thread and seeing heaps of detailed pics ,ive tryed to take as many pictures as i can and share the good ones .

 

ill try pic up where i left off and shortly will try get some pictures up :)

[oh what a nissan feeling!]

Excellent, that is really good news mate, good to hear your health is getting sorted, and good to hear this machine is will be finished as intended. :y:

[chestikoph1]

Hey Ryan,

 

Good to hear that you're on the mend mate, and you have decided to continue with the project.

If theres any thing you need a heads up with, shoot me a message.

Good luck with it buddy.

[JDM55]

Excellent, that is really good news mate, good to hear your health is getting sorted, and good to hear this machine is will be finished as intended. :y:

 

 

thanks mate ,yeah I'm getting stuck into it again the best i can,thanks for the kind words,i should have a small update soon managed to get something happening :)

[JDM55]

Hey Ryan,

 

Good to hear that you're on the mend mate, and you have decided to continue with the project.

If theres any thing you need a heads up with, shoot me a message.

Good luck with it buddy.

 

 

thanks man ,great to see your machine came together ,must be a buzz driving it! ill certainly give you a yell if i need ,i got alot of it worked out but maybe a few small engine things i may need advice on , ill keep that in mind tho, cheers ,its good to be back and able to work in this thing, ill have a small update tomorrow nite :)

[JDM55]

mate it breaks my heart to read this i hope everything comes good for u mate.

 

 

cheers ninja, things are getting better just a slow road to recovery ,but I'm getting back to the car now :)

[JDM55]

so straight back into it,as usual i loose my mind and control and go nuts out ,this time how ever ,I'm realy pushing to get closer to a finish point !! 2.5 years and still building is way past my first expected time frame,but things take time and being sick has lost me about 6 months,

so thought id share some of the pics ,ive got over the last few weeks,theres a bit of a section of missing pics where i didnt take any shots,but more the end result of alot of stuffing around,

first up ,i stole this idea from one of you guys on here can't remember who it was ,but thought it was a neat idea,

made up a small panel ,retrimed it with material that i managed to score for free! so that was awesum, and added 2 led down lights,the panel fitts under the boot lid and the wiring runs down the hinge,only down side i found to doing this was the springs on my boot wernt realy strong enuff to take the wieght of the boot and the new panel , no biggy ,just doged up a little hook set up to hold the boot open

 

 

Edited November 13, 2011 by JDM55

[JDM55]

more on the boot, i wanted to tidy the boot up a bit ,just give it a more cleaner look, so i designed a floor panel,that i cut out of mdf,this panel bolts to the car with the aid of nuts that i welded to the boot floor , so there isnt just a bunch of holes in the boot,the nuts are welded to the car the wood sits on the nuts and are clamped down by the bolts,works very well and is very firm and stable.

the next thing i did to the panel was put a resesse in the shape of a circle to take another piece that was also resses but the opposite way ,this is for the spare tyre cover ,both the cover and the floor panel were covered with the same material and a small s/s wire drawer type handle was fitted as the tyre cover sits flush to the floor ,needed a way to get it out.

and then the sub box which i had done earlier also got covered in the same material , this fits the same way the boot floor does,except i used very large nuts ,and the bolts ,do up from inside the box,again it works great with out having to drill a bunch of holes every where.

 

[JDM55]

[JDM55]

fitted a 10" pioneer sub , not going for a big boomy sound system,just clean clear sound for cruising :)

 

[JDM55]

made up a bracket to hold the window washer bottle ,that i moved from the engine bay to the boot,2 reasons for putting it in the boot,1. it didnt fitt where it used to live due to the strenghting braces, and 2. i want to keep the engine bay as empty as possible due to all the crazy pipes and stuff for the engine that will fill it up any way .

 

[JDM55]

started to put a few bits and pieces back on the car,its great to see stuff coming out of boxes instead of boxes pilling up every where,

heres the door trims that i made, its sort of a black/dark grey fabric, and the speaker pods were also covered in the same stuff,

fitted the trims back on , it looks pretty tidy i think.

 

 

 

as the rear speakers are a component set the tweeters wernt put in the doors this time , i stuck them in the rear pillar trims ...

 

[JDM55]

so i wasnt going to do this untill i got the engineers sorted out incase i had to cut weld grind etc in here ,but chanced my mind and real wanted this sorted out so called in a few favours and got a few mates to help sand the engine bay , so much work was done in there previously,hours and hours of welding and grinding and reshaping,filling holes and generaly trying to get it as clean looking as possible ,i think there may be a few pics back thru the pages some where of some of the work.

so more sanding!! i added it all up and between me and my mate to sand it all properly going from 320# on the sander then 320# by hand then red scotch brite, then 800# wet then grey scotch brite, 12 hours !!! spanned over several days of coarse but still 12 hours sanding is a fair amount , i could sand a whole respray in that time ,haha but it was sanded very well and all the groves and hard fiddley areas were taken care of ,

 

[JDM55]