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SeptemberSquallIndustries Forums Junkie Location: Melbourne Registered: August 2003	Re: n00b question - engine options for KE30 Coupe Tue, 24 February 2004 13:14 Let's get real; good paint (not show-winning, just smooth/good) could cost $5000 on its own. Paint is really a question of how long is a piece of string, and the more you spend the better more prep time and thus better prep job you get. 2pack enamel, pearl, airbrushing and effects all cost extra. A professional body rebuild will require complete disassemnbly of the car, which will involve heaps of labour time. Then there's accessories refinishing. A pair of bumpers will cost at least $500 to have rechromed properly. If you're serious you'd want to look at refinishing or replacing all your exterior chrome, badgework and the like. New mirrors, new glass if existing glass is scratched or chipped at all. Add interior refurbishment (sports seats $1000pr, new carpets, seats and door cards/kicks retrimmed, parcel shelf and consoles, dashboard). Add rolling stock (How long was that piece of string again? Not shorter than $1000 anyway...) Add full suspension refubishment, include bushes ($200+), springs ($300+), dampers ($400+) and stabiliser bars ($300+). Add engine conversion with required structural modifications and ancilliary upgrades (diff, clutch and transmission, cooling and lubrication systems, etc.). Hope you work it all out, maybe you've got mates who are in the trade. $5000 can make a cool streetable KE30, bun not show quality. Were it my car this would be my $5000. Break the car down yourself, refisish the accessories yourself. Mask and respray all blacks, then autosol the chrome to a shine. Replace any tired trim with good second-hand stuff you can locate. Send it for paint, or if you're good paint it yourself. If you're sending it for paint and can do some work yourself, it'll take a bite out of the paint bill. Reassemble the car yourself, again controlling costs. More work done yourself equals more money to spend on paint and prep time rather than someone else unbolting your rear quarter vents and door handles. I'd maybe spend $1000 through the suspension, springs for ythe front, dampers, stabilisers and bush renewal with eurethane. Then look at a 2T-G transplant (carburettors to minimise conversion difficulty/cost sunk in fuel system). Add extractors and exhaust. There's potential to rebuild to 1770CC/~1940CC as described above and some scope for forced induction if you're keen to spend the money on injection and turbo later. Remember the intial conversion will require attention to gearbox crossmember and tailshaft compatibility and potentially a differential upgrade. Engine crossmember will require modification and cooling may need to be upgraded. Something like MA61 rolling stock would (in my opinion) suit your KE30's visual style and offer 14"x7JJ wheels for 205/60 tyres in a favourable offset. Collect a good factory interior collection (should be out there, I scrounged a good one for my TA22), perhaps add some sporty late-model Corolla/Prelude/Integra/AW11/MA61 buckets and have brackets fabricated to suit. I might have already spent more than $5000 but that's one way to approach a complete balanced package on $5000. A lot can be done to aid your budgeting if you're happy to wait for cheap parts to become available (ie. MA61 wheels, scavenge trim from cars when wrecked, search wreckers for good deal on bucket seats, wait for 2T-G on Toymods especially, 2T-G from wreckers is freaking expensive.) God wrote too much hope this helps dude gotta sleep more [Report message to a moderator]

	Subject	Poster	Date
	n00b question - engine options for KE30 Coupe	rEvoLuTiOn	Fri, 20 February 2004 22:26
	Re: n00b question - engine options for KE30 Coupe	TokenBlackGuy	Sat, 21 February 2004 00:25
	Re: n00b question - engine options for KE30 Coupe	-=NiGz=-	Sat, 21 February 2004 08:11
	Re: n00b question - engine options for KE30 Coupe	oldcorollas	Sat, 21 February 2004 09:14
	Re: n00b question - engine options for KE30 Coupe	SeptemberSquallIndustries	Sun, 22 February 2004 09:18
	Re: n00b question - engine options for KE30 Coupe	rEvoLuTiOn	Tue, 24 February 2004 06:30
	Re: n00b question - engine options for KE30 Coupe	oldcorollas	Tue, 24 February 2004 07:21
	Re: n00b question - engine options for KE30 Coupe	SeptemberSquallIndustries	Tue, 24 February 2004 13:14
	Re: n00b question - engine options for KE30 Coupe	-=NiGz=-	Thu, 26 February 2004 06:48
	Re: n00b question - engine options for KE30 Coupe	STR8 2.8	Thu, 26 February 2004 14:05
	Re: n00b question - engine options for KE30 Coupe	rEvoLuTiOn	Wed, 25 February 2004 06:37
	Re: n00b question - engine options for KE30 Coupe	STR8 2.8	Wed, 25 February 2004 08:19
	Re: n00b question - engine options for KE30 Coupe	onejayzed	Thu, 26 February 2004 09:49
	Re: n00b question - engine options for KE30 Coupe	rEvoLuTiOn	Wed, 25 February 2004 08:43
	Re: n00b question - engine options for KE30 Coupe	oldcorollas	Wed, 25 February 2004 08:59
	Re: n00b question - engine options for KE30 Coupe	STR8 2.8	Wed, 25 February 2004 12:27

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