Teds Project Ke70 ~ The Blue Car

[love ke70]

just a thought

my dad has told me about this stuff he used back in the UK.

was a motor that hadnt been run for a while, had shit compression and was running like a 3 legged dog pulling a sack of spuds across a frozen lake...

bought this stuff that frees up the rings.

poured a few drops in each cyl. then left it to sit as per instructions

started up, large plumes of smoke. then the motor was just fine.

maybe worth a try?

[SLO83]

running like a 3 legged dog pulling a sack of spuds across a frozen lake...

 

Sorry for offtopic but that made me laugh

[Teddy]

Great to hear from you mumblezzz. Yeah, its a shame, but ill just have to bite the bullet, pull it down and re-freshn it.

 

I did happen to take it for a quick squiz up the road and back, to test the brakes ~ and holy_*%&S does that thing get up and move. *SMILE*

[Medicine_Man]

Life is a bitch, It throws you a bone and you have to eat it..

 

Looks like a pull down and rebuild, out comes the motor again..

 

Will be interesting to see what is causing it..

 

On that note, Just finished painting the windscreen wipers..

[7shades]

Moreys upper cylinder and head lubricant.... mixes in with your fuel.... I had a very very similar problem on in a K motor that had been sitting for quite a while and it worked... stuck rings. I'd really suggest you give the stuff a go before you strip her down... might as well, its like 10 bucks for a bottle.

[Medicine_Man]

Look how far it has come :)

[SLO83]

This thing is HOT!. Met Teddy And justin on the cruise, seem like nice blokes. Good to see you help fix a rolla in need aswell.

 

 

Jae (Red ke70)

[bLinded_]

Look how far it has come :yes:

 

Jesus, that is a top quality transformation! I can only hope that one day my enginebay will look like that :) Hope that you guys can get this thing back on the road soon :cool:

 

-Alex

[ancullen]

Look how far it has come :)

What's the difference???

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

:cool: Seriously though - you guys have done some AWESOME work. It's just quality through out.

[Teddy]

Saturday will result in motor being pulled out, and strip-zored down. Off to machine shop mondey, with a list of *i want this, this and this :D*

 

Yesterday, Spent 11 1/2 hours working on the car. Sanding and painting panels, created custom mounts for ECU and painted, assembled and installed wiper blades & arms, installed boot and fuel release lock, installed and bolted down dashpad; it needed some custom holes to re-alighn it (after 20+ years, things get a little loose, and stretched..), painted and installed center console mounts, Test fitted my custom dash (justin will upload pics) - I took all the fancy bits off it, just to test it (so crap isnt falling off, ive kind gota assemble it in the car - you'll see)

 

what else did i doooo,...Noted spark plugs are overly black all of a sudden, and Put my finger on no.2 piston is either cracked / part of it missing / ring cracked / etc.. something in that area. You could liturally hear the piston clacking around when i cranked it over lol

 

Picking up rest of interiour tomorrow :)

[Teddy]

* is now holding the new plates * - OKE7O - Gold on black. Slimline for front, normal for back. No Space in the middle.

 

H O T !

[Medicine_Man]

Would have uploaded some pictures lastnight, but was buggered from work..

[smacko84]

where'd you pilfer that sticker from?? And whats going in that white box where the original radio was?? I'm curious...

[Teddy]

Hahah, thats my custom dash :)

 

More pics to come soon !

[Teddy]

Ok, been asked by a few people over the last few weeks for some form of list, on the car to date. few things are yet to be done, few things are to be done after its going.. etc. But here is a rough general document on the car to date.

 

Blue car build up specs Final List

 

YTBI – Yet to be installed

S / U / P – Sanded / undercoated / painted

 

Body

Exterior

- Striped bare, every panel & part removed

- Body striped back to metal, all rust cut out, metal welded back in place

- All dints / bumps / scratches / removed

- Resealed

- Vehicle re-aligned and bent straight

- Entire vehicle primer’d, guide coated, painted, glossed (yada yada) in acrylic Tara blue, 2pac metallic clear. Under body rock/tar crap sprayed on

- Process from start of body work until finish took approximately 2 ½ years.

Interior

- All body sealer removed, back to bare metal in boot; resealed and sprayed in hardy protective paint. Baked

- Interiour removed all bum fluff back to original paint, scuffed down and repainted in black. Removed rust, replated as required. Cleaned out some of the old threads, taped a few etc

Engine bay

- (same procedure as outside of car)

 

Installation of parts

 

Fuel system

- Custom made 5/16th fuel lines – main and return

- Pickup unit pipes removed, 5/16th lines bent as per original shape and brazed back into place.

- New 1.5L surge tank mounted in boot, with new 200hp inline fuel pump and new pickup pump. 5/16th EFI hose used throughout. Note - ½” fuel line used from surge to fuel pump inlet. Approraite ADR approved clamps used. Piped up accordingly, through boot with grommets. Carbon canister plumbed in to breather from tank.

- Custom mount for fuel filter in engine bay, plumed into fuel rail as required

- Fuel line clamps painted metallic red

- Fuel tank cleaned out, painted black. New strap rubbers, and top foam pads.

- ADR filler neck flap welded into fuel intake nozzle for unleaded fuel only

- New fuller hose installed with larger clamps

- Standard fuel rail and injectors used from Ae86 JDM 4age. Fuel rail flushed, cleaned, painted red. Pressure reg. Checked and painted too.

 

Cooling system

- New Ae86 radiator mounted on Ae82 mounts; 2 lower welded in and top ones fabricated to suit, using Ae82 tops

- Thermo fan from a Sera (denso); Custom mounts to suit radiator

- Re-plumbed heater hoses to suit motor conversion.

- Heater core checked and given quick overhaul.

- Genuine RWD thermostat assembly used. New genuine top and bottom radiator pipes used. New genuine thermostat. Toyota long life red coolant & distilled water. New Genuine Radiator Cap

 

Intake System

- EP92 Air box used, with custom mounts and genuine *massaged* brackets from Aw11 MR2. Rubber mounted, not solid mounted. New Genuine Air filter

- Custom 1 piece air pipe made to suit (still being built as this document is being written)

 

Exhaust system

- JASMA extractors, Stainless steel 2 ½” exhaust, High flow Cat, Muffler / Resonator (YTBI)

- Exhaust shield custom made (YTBI)

 

Differential & Attached

- T18 diff housing, new axel bearings, new handbrake shoes and wheel cylinders, reco h/brake cables and links, machined drums. Diff wire wheeled back to metal, undercoated / painted black.

- Cusco 2way LSD. Genuine LSD Toyota oil.

- Diff link bars; new nolithane bushes. S / U / P – Black. Blue bushes.

- S / U / P panhard rod black. New red noli. Bushes. (Adjustable on the way)

- S / U / P Thicker sway bar from T18? S / U / P yellow, to suit king springs

- New king spring lows, Monroe shocks painted black. (suspension to be properly attented to after vehicle driving, and style of driving.. known J )

- Brake line on diff (and rest of car) S / U / P Silver. Used G.C diff to body brake hose used. (only used one on car, new one unavailable at time of build, may replace later on to a custom made item)

- Stock bump stop(s); height not altered

 

Gearbox and related

- Tail shaft – Stock T18; S / U / P black

- Gearbox – Low Km Granny Ae71 T50, with JDM housing. VMX 80 oil

- New Slave cylinder, New hand made clutch hydraulic line

- Stock near new clutch and pressure plate. Machined flywheel

- Stock painted gearbox c-member. Near new mounts.

- Polished gearbox, unpainted!

 

Motor (as of this being typed, motor still in need or reco, may change, but what I would like…)

- JDM Ae86 4age bigport (With Tvis connected!)

- Bottom end o/Sized pistons, new rings / bearings. Shaved block.

- Top end – Head shaved (20thow ) 4 seat valve re-face intake, 3? For exhaust. New valve steam seals.

- Stock Cams, Stock JDM ECU, stock injectors.

- Toyota oil (castrol corporate oil haha ) – 20W50, Genuine oil filter

- JDM RWD intake manifold.

- Bottom end painted black, head cleaned up, unpainted. Red bling-bling r/covers. Manifold / TB Bling-bling blue

- Toyota genuine (Century painted black with nice stickers) battery, 460CCA Rated. Big mofo.

- New genuine fan belt.

- Justin-Spec minta-overhauled starter motor. Silver on black. Now with extra added throw-out kick!

- Stock Alternator.

- New Aftermarket (omg) water pump and seals

 

Engine Bay & related

- JDM Ae86 washer bottle, mounted on LH strut. Re piped with new hosing

- O/Hauled wiper motor, Painted black. New Wiper arms, painted base.

- New Brake master cylinder, Reco/check brake booster.

- New Clutch master cylinder. New cutch pin for pedal box; genuine yo.

- Painted brake lines, all silver.

- Brake fluid used – Dot 3 Genuine toyota

- Near new engine mounts. Cross member from Ae71 S / U / P Black.

- Stock Ke70 overflow bottle mounted differently on front wall; beside radiator

 

Front suspension / underneath

- Monroe front struts, S / U / P black

- King spring lows

- Swarbar S / U / P Yellow, new noley. Bushes.

- Lower controle arms S / U / P black, new noley. Bushes

- New Aftermarket ball joints, greaseable type

- New wheel bearings, repacked Caltex hi-temp grease. Machine rotors, painted black

- New brake pads. Non-asbestosis type L

- Brake callipers overhauled. New pistons and boots all round. Painted Red

- New Brake lines, both from body to strut, strut to calliper (Brakes all stock Ae71)

Vehicle lighting / bumpers / body accessories / Exterior Stuff

- New Chrome bumpers, front and rear

- New plastic end caps

- New numberplate lights

- Overhauled rear mounts, S / U / P black

- New rear tail lights

- Overhauled DX- twin headlight front end (genuine), to original colours, except glossy variants

- Genuine new side blinkers

- New 4x hella removable headlights & new bulbs

- Old parker lenses (Hunting for NEW ones)

- Old blinker in bar lenses ( HUNTING FOR NEW ONES!)

- Front mounts stock, S / U / P black

- Chrome strips from CS and CSX models used on car, all polished; none of the rubber lower-model parts used; All chrome baby haha – Doors / glass / roof etc

- New front windscreen and clips

- Original glass on doors used. Near new rear window glass and rubber. Mango-tree performance sticker

- Stock, Restored CSX remote mirrors used both passenger and drivers side

- Black restored rear side C pillar external grills used; later flush ones

 

Interior

- CSX boot and fuel release used

- New custom cut thick underlay firewall back to boot made

- New moulded and cut plush pile black carpet

- Stock seats retrimed, refoamed and slightly reshaped – Black with red inserts – Swede, velour, purfurated leather and Vinal. “GT Twincam 16” stitched into front seats.

- Re-furbed mounts and lubricated mechanics

- Swede A / B / C piller trims

- Custom parcel shelf, trimmed in black with pimp under-lay Vegas pattern

- Velour black roof lining

- Every other dash / interior piece S / U / P black – apart from the 2 on the dash that surround the heater controles & opposite side of sterring wheel – chrome silver painted.

- Every dash vent taken out, painstainkly cleaned, sanded, restored. All old foam removed, and replaced with new foam – on edges / flaps / links etc. All springs lubricated, all things re-adjusted.

- Blowerbox disassembled, motor overhauled. Body painted black, clips painted gold. Refoamed as required, lubricated and adjusted all mechs.

- Evap. disassembled, Cleaned Body, painted black, clips painted gold. Refoamed as required, lubricated and adjusted all mechs. When AC connected up later on, will replace Evap + related

- Blower cylinder box diss-assembled, cleaned, foam removed, resealed, relubed mechs, readjusted. All clips painted gold

- Air control lever assembly disassembled completely, all things removed. Lubricated lines, mechs on controle assembly, re-positioed leads (after 20+ years, things stretched and out of alignment). Re-lubricated switch, new bulb installed. Re-assembled. Omg, that’s what a new unit feels like?

- Dash sanded, and painted black (Ha, that took about ½ a day..)

- All dash mounts S / U / P black

- Glove box rubber side mounts replaces, Lock disassembled, lubricated and cleaned

- Dash frame changed; stock radio area all removed in place for new custom dash

- Custom dash built; stock assembly continued all the way over to the left ~ converted to LED.

- Dash consists of Stock backings modified in Macromedia flash, stock lettering and spacing applied over new oil temp / oil pressure / water temp / fuel gauge / volt gauge meters. Printed out onto clear Vinal, as black gauges. Stuck onto 2mm purspex backing plates, with milk bottle (yes milk bottle, pefect material) sub backings for even spread of LED light – White letters, with Red “warning” zones. Red LED needles used, modified and created from 100 series landcruier, TCR 10 tarago, Ke70, Ke55 corolla, 1989 honda civic, 2006 jaguar x type?, TRX bluebird, late-late sigma and an Is250 dash’s. Covered in 5% black tint on custom clear purspex covering – giving the lexus impression; when the vehicle is off – everything is black, nothing is viewable. When vehicle is on, The white and red LED’s light up, and all you can see is the gauges :) – ½ VTBI !

- SAAS 14”? sterring wheel on genuine boss kit

- Stock sun visors, with LX470 mirror / light inserts

- Retractable front (and rear!) seatbelts

- Velour / Swede door trims with red stitching highlights, on Vegas style underlay

- Chrome Ke30 window winders (maybe will go electric in future)

- Stero (unknown atm) – will consit of a headdeck, twin 4” up front, tweeters on A pillars, molded in somehow, 2x 6x9 in rear parcel shelf. Possibly an amp and small subwoofer. Not too fused on noise.

- Truckie radio, UHF? VTBI

- Stock T50 gear lever, shortened with old style-TRD leather knob

 

 

Things to get, that I havnt listed, or what not. I'm over writing this list, it just never ends. Ugh.

 

- Tint

- Clean up white cars 14” dish mags, and put new tyres on

- Few other Electric things :D

- Underground accessory, lets just say its.. ugh.. you’ll know its on my car when your… in the presence of the vehicle :yes: – NO RICE !@#&$*&@^ !

- Theres more, and I probably wont add to it as I think of it, but whell’ see.

 

 

Teddy