Ke 70 Have I Biten Off More Than I Can Chew

[SLW42]

So have you decided to just do a manual conversion and throw a 5k into it yet?

[Johnno115]

yeh thats a clean ke20 you got there pal!, guessig there would of been an endless supply for those hours :P

 

 

Its all good mate.

 

Good luck with your build, seems to be alot of knowledgeable people for you to bounce your ideas off, stick at it. Fun times ahead.

[GJM85]

5k conversion won't be hard.... if you find one out of a corolla she'll be out & in. Otherwise they come out of liteace's and you'll need to swap things liike the thermostat housing and sump. Also if you do find a engine you want to use be sure it is clean running engine. There would be nothing worse than doing all the work only to find you've got a cracked piston....

[wanzl]

So have you decided to just do a manual conversion and throw a 5k into it yet?

manual conversion no doubt :P

think I'm going to put that in and play around with the 4k for a bit

then maybe 4age

now thinking if i do pull the engine out should put something in there with biger/more potential

but with all the talk of ease of puting in a 5k in that is deffently still in the picture

cheers

[wanzl]

so as ive decide to do the manual conversion

i have a couple of Questions

 

is t50 better opotion?? k50 easyer i asume?

 

.t50 or k50?

.peddle box just go a k70 box? cuz ae is hydrulic??

.fly wheel

.manual tail shaft

.clutch cable

please add ive forgoten anything

 

and is there anything else i can do whilts gear box is out any other weight saveing power gaing mods down that a way?

 

and if any 1 has any of this please pm me am in melbourne north east

 

thanks

[GJM85]

so as ive decide to do the manual conversion

i have a couple of Questions

 

is t50 better opotion?? k50 easyer i asume?

 

.t50 or k50?

.peddle box just go a k70 box? cuz ae is hydrulic??

.fly wheel

.manual tail shaft

.clutch cable

please add ive forgoten anything

 

and is there anything else i can do whilts gear box is out any other weight saveing power gaing mods down that a way?

 

and if any 1 has any of this please pm me am in melbourne north east

 

thanks

 

You'll need to locate a ke70 5 speed as anything from an earlier model is shorter. If you use a t-50 you'll need a k-t bell housing which is not easy to find and unless you do some work to the 4k, won't be worth the trouble.

Edited September 2, 2010 by GJM85

[SLW42]

A t50 is definately a better box but unless you get a k-t bellhousing you have no hope of getting a t50 behind a k motor :hmm:, i think you hit the nail on the head mate manual ke70 pedal box, spigot bearing, k40(4speed) or k50(5speed), manual tailshaft, gearbox crossmember, clutch cable, oh maybe speedo cable, and bob's your uncle! Good luck

[altezzaclub]

Lighten the flywheel before you fit it- knock a couple of Kg off it without going mad. The motor will spin up faster in the lower gears.

[wanzl]

You'll need to locate a ke70 5 speed as anything from an earlier model is shorter. If you use a t-50 you'll need a k-t bell housing which is not easy to find and unless you do some work to the 4k, won't be worth the trouble.

 

k70 5 speed so k50 is a no go?

and k-t bell houseing you find thoughs on ae71?

and cross member will that have to be a manaul one also?

 

thanks

[SLW42]

You need or want a 5speed for a k motor which IS A K50 THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE BEEN SAYING MATE if you can find a k-t bellhousing then your lucky, and NO YOU don't FIND A K-T BELLHOUSING IN A AE71

[altezzaclub]

Haha- the confusion is between KE70 and K50....

 

K40 and K50 are the manual boxes in the K series cars. 4speed and 5speed respectively. They can be found in any Kseries car as they get fitted into earlier models, but they have long and short tail sections so the gear levers can be in different places.

 

They have 3K, 4K and 5K motors in them.

 

The K50 is just an overdrive fitted to the back of a K40, so they swap instantly.

 

The Tseries cars and gearboxes are quite different.

Edited September 2, 2010 by altezzaclub

[wanzl]

took a week of work this week and thought id get stuck into pulling the auto box out and

also giving me time to go and get my fly wheel lightend :laff: and heavy duty clutch :yes:

so far so good just a couple of questions though

the inlet vacum line and radiator colling lines they can all be removed ???

 

i have looked over the manual box and i can't seem to find where they would go in thats if they do!?

 

thanks

[altezzaclub]

Ignore the auto's radiator cooling lines, mine are still there and they hold up the battery cable for me!

 

The vacuum emission control system is different between auto and manual, but I remember blocking everything except the charcoal canister and the dizzy vac advance. I cleaned it all up when I fitted SU carbs more recently.

[wanzl]

Ignore the auto's radiator cooling lines, mine are still there and they hold up the battery cable for me!

 

The vacuum emission control system is different between auto and manual, but I remember blocking everything except the charcoal canister and the dizzy vac advance. I cleaned it all up when I fitted SU carbs more recently.

 

was hopeing this would be the case i was skractching my head there for a minute :hmm: yeh i whent down to auto barn and got a hand ful of black rubber caping gromets looks so much neater now and yeh found 1 of your diagrams on here or the ke70 forum and copied that :y:

 

thanks

[wanzl]

so gear box is ready to go in :) the only thing left to do is to find some rubber bump stops for the x member would it be fine just to drill the holes out make them a little wider for the auto 1s to fit??? or does any body have any lieing around

thanks