One Owner Ke55, 4K 4Sp

[ke30dude]

Just picked this old girl up from its original owner, I saw it forsale on a facebook buy swap sell group and it screamed "BUY ME", I had been eyeing it off for years going around town.

 

it has 177000km on the clock, very minor rust in the rear arches, a small hit to the rear and thin paint on the bonnet otherwise the interior is perfect and the paint apart from the bonnet will come up very good with a wax. Even the dash pad is great (this is rare out here in the country as the horrible summers get to it.

 

The little 4k needs a rocker cover gasket and maybe o rings on the spark plug tubes but otherwise the engine is going to stay 100% stock. the rest of the car is going to remain stock, I am even going to leave the 80's era alarm fitted to it.

 

Very happy with my purchase at only $1k.

 

Only have crappy photos that the dude selling it for the old lady took. They don't do the quality of it justice but ill attach them now and add new ones tomorrow after a wax.

 

As with my 2 door ke55 this car will remain unmolested and just improved back to factory standard over time.

[Gavclassic]

Well Done !!, Won't take much to bring this one back into shape !!

[ke30dude]

thanks gav, gave the ol girl a very quick wash this morning to get the dust off, got out of bed a bit late to do a full wax. Will be driving it to work today so I wanted it clean :)

[mhmills]

CLEAN!! Nice find man!

[Ben-89]

Beautifull it is, glad to hear its remaining stock standard. Big thumbs up :y: :y:

[ke30dude]

Went to dads today and pinched some parts from my first ke30 that we still had parts laying around from. Now has unfaded taillights and I pinched a fuel gauge sender as the one in it is all over the place. :)

 

Is a great little car to drive to work buzzes along nicely, I did have one of the factory fuel hoses spring a leak but it was only just down the road from home so was easily replaced.

[ke30dude]

Well after being only driven 3 times in the last 18 months (two of those trips was to get the yearly rwc and the third was for my wedding I decided to go for a full cleanup and put on my jellybeans, I have covered 2500km in the last month and a bit and apart from a failed ballast resistor its been flawless, i gave the motor a thourough flush as it was sludged up beyond recognition under the rocker cover when I checked the tappets and that just made it feel smoother and stronger :D

 

 

One minor annoynig issue is I don't have gauges half the time, not sure why, it must be a dirty connection under the dash because if you tap it the gauges start working again,

[Clapped out]

i'm glad to see your looking after this gem, top job! :rocknroll:

[ke30dude]

so 4 years later on this topic.... the 4k was progressively getting more and more smoky over time, still reliable as ever but was requiring a liter of oil every second week to keep it happy. Yesterday when changing a couple of fuel hoses it all got a little out of hand and next minute a 5k engine that's been sitting on my front porch for years made its way in there with the electronic dizzy and all. Very noticeable increase in torque and very quiet with the hydraulic lifters.... unfortunately got too excited during a test run and lunched the clutch.

Edited October 10, 2017 by ke30dude