My KLZE Festiva Build Thread

[Damkid]

:lol: thanks Karl

Is the straight neck intake going to hit your brake booster like I heard it does on the 323's?

If it does interfere i will use the DE's intake

[Safety Guy]

Chris, you are THE V6 MASTER!

This is beyond awesome possum spectacular!!

Go Chris, GO!!

After you complete this, maybe a Flying Festiva?

Karl

[Gforcefd]

Is the straight neck intake going to hit your brake booster like I heard it does on the 323's?

[LightWeight]

mmm that looks so nice!!! its going to be a BEAST!!!!!

[Damkid]

Just to clear any confusion about the slave cylinder, heres a pic of where it bolts to the tranny



And look what i brought home today

My KL-ZE!!




I won't get a chance to work on it the next couple days but at least i can start making the engine mount, finish any last clearance issues etc. then start on the plumbing and wiring

[Damkid]

From comparing the Probe tranny with my spare 323 tranny (when i swapped diffs) the bolt holes look the same for where i mounted the hinge

[Gforcefd]

No I mean you used the case out of a Ford Probe, and my case is a Mazda Protege, they have a different bolt pattern to mount to different engines, I wondered if how you mounted that part would mount differently on both cases?

I am not sure what the external differences in the transmissions cases are other than the engine bolt pattern.

[Damkid]

Your using the other case to bolt up to that motor, I wonder if it would mount the same on the protege tranny?

I'm not sure what your asking, the tranny case is the probe case, i didn't mix match the cases but i probably could have

[gorgonheimer]

I would think so, its almost the same transmission.

[Gforcefd]

Yep definitely going to need to buy one of those off from you looks sweet. Your using the other case to bolt up to that motor, I wonder if it would mount the same on the protege tranny?

[Damkid]

Looks really nice.........have you had a chance to see if the ratio is right yet?

I won't know til i get a flywheel and with christmas my project hasn't seen much funding for me to get a flywheel/clutch but from moving it by hand, i'm sure it'll be fine

[jmye1524]

Looks really nice.........have you had a chance to see if the ratio is right yet?




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[Maxtiva]

I can't wait to see this beast !!! :evil1:

[Damkid]

Welll i ended up having to work 4 hours late and by the time i got done the back door was blocked so yet again i couldn't the fork lift out the back door to load the engine in my car to bring it home

I'm a little confused here. With this setup when the clutch pedal is pushed down it will pull on the bracket you've made which then PULLS the the bolt that's connected to the throwout lever (for lack of a better term). Doesn't the hydraulic setup PUSH on the lever when the pedal is pushed down?

If I remember they push but are located on the other side of the fork???

You are correct, the slave cylinder mounts on the engine side of the fork, i have a junk slave cylinder that i can put in place and take a pic to show where it mounts

^^right... the slave cylender bolts above the front trany mount, pushing from that side

Chris I can't wait to see how this works when its actually "in action"! Looks sweet!

Thanks Nate i can't wait either :lol:

It even has Zerk fitting(s)! Good engineering.

Well i didn't want it rusting solid on me one day :lol: i want it to last a lifetime!

[skeeters_keeper]

^^right... the slave cylender bolts above the front trany mount, pushing from that side

Chris I can't wait to see how this works when its actually "in action"! Looks sweet!