Johns Ke70 Ca18Det/ Deja Vu Pg2

[johnnyblz]

About time I posted up my project daily dx. Picked up back in 2002 with no rego

no warent and in need of a good spruce up. It had already been started of with

a Calipso Blue paint job. Well 1st of all we needed to fix the wiring which was a

mess and sort out brakes with some pads.

 

 

After having the car road worthy with a fresh warrent and rego i decided to sort

out the height and installed some dobi lowering springs and new shocks all round.

But there was something lacking.... grunt, power, balls. After stuffing round

with twin carbs to no sucsess and wasted money decided to go for the popular

4age conversion.

 

6 months later i had sussed out all the main parts for the basic conversion and

it was off to the Toyota Hospital, Tama Autos. 2 weeks later I had the mean

grin as Reo handed back my keys. Next step was to try get a warrent but that was

a no go, so now needing a cert I went to Freelance Automotive to put it through its

paces. Bit of work later a new black plate got rivited in engine bay.

 

 

A few months down the track i figured that sideways action was not gonna happen with the

k series diff so I managed to get ahold of a T50 gearbox and ae86 diskbrake diff. Trademe also

came through with the goods with an ae70 pedalbox and 2 piece driveshaft. Now i had the goods a had to use them so what else should i do but sign up for the famous Joe Manji drift days. 3 of these manji days later i had to things (al least) needed to be done, better suspention and new engine mounts. hmm well that cut the day short.

 

Soon after that good old Keisuke from (86fighters.wordpress.com) hooked me up with jic ae86 coilovers with camber plates and ncrca's and later got some BC rear pearches with some TRD Blue adjustable shocks . Also got some rust work done and guards smashed out (thanks to reo) lucky cause it would of been a tight fit with the ncrca's. Also put some 25mm spacers on the rear to see. Looked good.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Got car back from the painters with a fresh paint to cover up those guards

and get those nasty dings out, looks sweet merry xmas 09 to me. Also got a tint job to replace the homejob style.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

as it sits now:

 

4age bluetop conversion

custom mounts

3.7 jun lightned flywheel

3 puc clutch

ae86 front adjusties with

camber plates

10kg springs

Revolver ncrca"s

BC Rear pearches with

TRD Blue shocks

T50 Gearbox

Ae86 disc brake diff

TRD 2 way LSD

Whiteline adjustable panhard rod

14x7 rays mesh

 

 

but for how long!!!!

Edited May 16, 2012 by johnnyblz

[rollake70]

f@$k i love the dx model it has a way better front and shape than myne the cs and even the csx it looks relly good mate if i was to ever get another 1 id get a dx

looking good

[Beauc]

Top work mate, looks awesome, how does it go?

[johnnyblz]

Top work mate, looks awesome, how does it go?

 

goes sweet as mate. when the lightned flywheel went in it made a massive difference in power

and adjusties well worth doing.

Edited January 7, 2010 by johnnyblz

[johnnyblz]

so in the last few months my ride has changed from sitting with the 4age t50 stuff to sitting with a new powerplant consisting of a Ca18det.

 

Once i collected all the necessary parts i thought i would need including aftermarket turbo man, 3'' dump pipe intercooler+piping, jointers and gauges it was off to the Toyota Hospital that is Tama Autos.

 

 

It started buy ripping out the 4age and t50 and other bits. tried doing the bolt onto stock crossmember trick and it worked but with a good 65mm between sump and actual crossmember so the crossmember mounts came off and custom ones were made upto sit low and back. Next thing was shifter position ending up right on a support looking bar, so after some internet searching this could be fixed by using the ca bell and a rb rear casing bolted together but there was no proof that i could find, so i tried it and it payed off. using a gearbox from a r33 skyline and shifter was an extra 75mm foward compared to the ca gearbox. + i could use handbrake in 2nd.

 

 

 

 

Went smooth sailing from there on doing wiring, driveshaft and trying to do intercooler + piping while keeping bumper and chin lip looking stock. Then exhaust.

All running now all i need to do is go get a tune.

 

 

[dopedx]

Looking good mate. Very tidy conversion. Bet she'll go like a cut cat. A ca is the way I'm planning on going in mine in the future. What brake set up are you running?

Cheers Sam

[johnnyblz]

cheers man, I'm running jic ae86 adjusties with project mu pads

Edited May 23, 2010 by johnnyblz

[Funking-Awesome]

Looks killer mate...nicely done! :D

[the_van_can]

looks good and will go great, only thing I noticed was a little different was the end caps on the rear bumper, they look like they were meant for a front bumper someone correct me if I'm wrong.

[johnnyblz]

nah over here in nz they came standard like that with chrome bumpers.

 

looks good and will go great, only thing I noticed was a little different was the end caps on the rear bumper, they look like they were meant for a front bumper someone correct me if I'm wrong.

[the_van_can]

ahh, fair enough the old nz styling I see ;)

[redae71]

looks sick mate, how hard was it to get the cooler piping under the lights like that? not sure how different ae to te front ends are but i went around the bottom of the front panel with mine and up under the battery panel/through the drivers front guard bit...

[johnnyblz]

cheers man, piping was a tight fit very close.

 

 

looks sick mate, how hard was it to get the cooler piping under the lights like that? not sure how different ae to te front ends are but i went around the bottom of the front panel with mine and up under the battery panel/through the drivers front guard bit...

Edited May 26, 2010 by johnnyblz

[Backyard Engineering]

cheers man, piping was a tight fit very close.

 

love it :happy:

[johnnyblz]

managed to get warrent so mega stoaked, should keep the fuzz at bay ( i hope)