Ke25 Restomod

[KE25 Nut]

G-day everyone

this is the first time I'm realy posting anything about my car it has come a long way since i bought it

almost 16 months ago. it started as just a quick close door respray but after finding more rust than originally anticipated

it is now just about a full on bare metal respray and hotting the thing up at the same time.

I did have a 2tg which i intended to drop in it but due to being low on funds i ended up selling it. i have now decided i want to go

a twin carb 4age and would appreciate any input you could possibly give me about the easiest way to go about it.

 

anyway heres some pics of the build so far.

 

This is how it looksed as i bought it nothing special but i saw its potential

 

This rust in the chassis rail has held this build up. Spent just over 6 months to repairing it

making sure every weld was perfect and keeping the original contours of the metals so that you couldn't tell it had ever been repaired.

 

Rubbing back the guidecoat on the highfill primer, starting to look good

 

Painted the shell in basecoat just after new years after spending countless hours smoothing the pannnels to get a clean smooth finish

 

 

[KE25 Nut]

Sorry the photos are going to be abit all over the place as I'm trying to find them all.

 

Anyway just after i bought this car i ended up loosing my licence so i didn't even get to go through a whole tank of petrol in my new corolla.

Once i had no licence i decided this was the perfect time to clean up my ke25 in time for me getting my licence back.

I spent many late nights stripping the paint off the car mostly to find beautiful clean metal underneath but it did have some cancer.

This car is my second love my first was a 1973 bmw 2002tii that was originally owned by my father and it has taken its place in the garage and as autumn 2010 set in i had to get my

corolla out of the elements before all my hard work had to be done again. My high school mate Prydey spoke to his mum and kindly let me use their carport for my build not knowing that

it was going to take this long. Since i was stripping the car at my house once i was given the OK to use their carport it was a husslt to put the whole car back together and drive it there.

 

I got quite a few looks driving it like this

 

Just as the car arrived under Prydeys car port

 

[sNoOkDoG]

hey Andrew,

 

that base coat looks overrated, i love seeing more ke25 on here, and i reckon you should et your hands back on a 2tg :cool: but a 4age is cool

 

good luck with the rest of the project

[*KE25*]

My ke25 has an odd stud pattern, what did u have to do to put them beast rims on it?

[Tally]

simmons come in 4x110 so will fit stock ke25 stud pattern. can also get 4x114.3 simmons

Edited August 18, 2011 by Tally

[KE25 Nut]

Yeah tally is right mine was original and un changed so it had the 4x110 stud pattern which were also used on the early Mazda's eg rx2 rx3 r100 rx7 and so on though only series 1 and 2 rx7 had this same stud pattern. I spent a few months trying to track down those Simmons and had to take a road trip to Newcastle to pick them up.

But it was the (period) look I was after and I think they do it justice.

Though I have now got ae86 coilovers to go up front so I am looking for a pair of 15" v4 Simmons centers in 4x114.3 so I can keep that look if anyone can help???

 

Will upload some more pics and info this weekend!!!

[KE25 Nut]

hey Andrew,

 

that base coat looks overrated, i love seeing more ke25 on here, and i reckon you should et your hands back on a 2tg :cool: but a 4age is cool

 

good luck with the rest of the project

 

Cheers it is starting to all come together now.

A mate by the name of con the owner of c.t. Auto restorations in mortdale has taught me alot about panel beating and spray painting so I really owe him thanks for the way this car is turning out.

And if I can get my hands on an original te27 crossmember I will want to go 2tg again as it will mate it a straight bolt in and will make the car more "period" or original looking =)

Also it's probably one of the most prettiest looking motors I reckon.

[KE25 Nut]

Haven't made a post in a while.

My 25 is slowly coming together and will hopefully have all the final paint on it and start putting it back together this holidays as I'm off work till January 14th.

Alot of work has been caried out over the past 12 months but haven't had the time to finish everything off due to work.

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After all rust was cut out and replaced caused by battery acid corossion. this was the end result of the drivers side chassis rail and under the battery tray.

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where the battery tray used to sit, all metal shaped and welded.

 

 

After a quick lick of primer and undercoat,

 

 

view from underneath.

 

 

after it was all done if i didnt post this you would be hard pressed to know that it was ever cut out and replaced.

[KE25 Nut]

Even though this project has been on hold for almost the last 12 months.

Here are a few more photos of the progress i have had.

 

drivers door prepped and in high fill primer.

 

divers door reunited with the rest of the car.

 

Passenger door now attached and high filled and rubbed back ready for colour.

 

Bonnet in primer and both doors now in undercoat red.

I have been painting every pannel with a few coats of red as I go because since I am building this car in my very limited spare time under a temporary carport that I erected to hopefully protect the car from the elements. Due to it sitting in my backyard it does still get the occasional chip and scratch here and there so it gives the car that little bit extra protection without getting me upset if it was the final coat.

I Also got bored a few weeks back and put some racing stripes down the side in elecrical tape just to see what it would look like.

I think I'm gonna get some big stickers for the stripes made up through a mate of mine as I think I will eventually get bored of them if I paint them on, That way I have the option of removing them.

 

This is one of the latest pics with most of the car in base coat red.

only have the front valance and drivers guard to finish knocking the dents out of before I can finally sand back the whole car and paint it one last time.

 

I will post up some more pictures over the coming weeks as I get closer to finishing the bodywork.

[KE25 Nut]

Finally updating this build progress has been slow but finally getting to the final stages of completion.

There are alot more goodies to come but keeping it as close to standard as posible to get it passed blue slip.

 

Currunt dilemma is my exhaust is fouling on the passenger foot well on hard revving. So will pull out the extractors and modify them this week.

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Car sitting extremly high now with all lowering components taken out.