500hp 70 drift build

[Jip86]

take the rca off the knuckle, sit in on square and tap it down evenly with a soft faced mallet while supporting the lca/balljoint with a jack. they are tight for a reason.

[Keweapon]

Will try tommorow but I doubt it as the knuckle is out by atleast 1-2mm

[Big T]

Sounds like you either have ke70 struts or ke70 knuckles. They are about 1-2mm narrower than the ae86 gear.


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[Keweapon]

They were sold to me as "ae86 cut and shut shortened knuckles" they are a horrible backyard job imo

[ae8zn6]

Talk to Brenton Lapworth then and get some better steering gear. I got mine from him, he does really good prices and his work isn't dodgey...

Last thing you would want is to have a steering arm snap on the street after spending so much time and effort building a 500hp streeter.

[Keweapon]

havent updated in a while but a heap has happend in the last few months,
me and my old man moved in to our workshop so we now have a dedicated place to work on our cars and chill out. hoist, compressor, tools and cabinets have been added so far. bar theartre room kitchen to come.

i got straight to work and started by removing the old 4k and tore my front end down and powdercoated everything black.

lots of parts have arrived including hubs, xt130 arms, lock spacer, bushings, coilovers and more,
most of my front end is together all freshly powdercoated. i want everything fitting up before i decide to paint anything else.

boxed up my xt130 arms, unsure if i should remove the steering stops (engineering and rego) but i would like to find out before i powdercoat them.

my ke conversions engine mounts and pedal box arrive and i dropped my motor in for a test fit, looks good although it hits my greedy copy plenum on the brake booster, so am curious to see if anyone else has had that problem and how they got around it? im going to scallop it out and weld it back over if there isnt a easier fix.

everything is going smooth so far but i feel i might run in to problems with clearance for my rb25 box clearing the tunnel, will find out tommorow night when i test fit the box.

restoring my brake calipers in the coming weeks and hopefully some changes for clearances.
heres some pictures so far. update again soon cheers[IMG][/IMG][[IMG][/IMG]IMG][/IMG][IMG][/IMG][IMG][/IMG][IMG][/IMG][IMG][/IMG][IMG][/IMG][IMG][/IMG][IMG][/IMG]

[AJPS]

definitely remove the lock stops - they didnt have them factory

also dont forget your locking nuts on the tie rod tubes (they are missing in the pics)

[Keweapon]

Going to cut them off tommorow and finish them nicely so I can drop them at the powdercoaters and then have my bushes pressed back in the following week, as for the tierods, almost certain they didn't come with locking nuts.

[AJPS]

definitely would have been in the box, but can send you some more if you dont have them, send me your address to

Cheers