My KLZE Festiva Build Thread

[Damkid]

:laughing3::laughing3: come on down and make me :evil4:

[sasquatch]

WHAT DID I JUST SAY!!! go in to that shop and dont come out till its done :p

[Damkid]

i dont what to see another post from you untill the v6 is in :evil4:

:evil4::evil4: well just for that i'm posting to say too dam bad you have to wait like i do :lol: i think the day i get the V6 home i'll be test fitting it in the engine bay :evil4:

[sasquatch]

i dont what to see another post from you untill the v6 is in :evil4:

[Damkid]

Thanks guys, the encouragement is great to hear!!

[Gforcefd]

Looking great man, your car is going to be truly unique when you done. Can't wait to hear it.

[marinepolice03]

looking very nice... cant wait to see more!

[25Horseplay]

Nice!!

[Festiva_Fred]

Looking good. :thumbright:

[Damkid]

Thanks Willie, i'm looking forward for it too :lol: hopefully this week i'll be able to get the engine home (finally) for more test fitting

[GenevaDirt]

nice progress Chris...looking forward to the V6

[Damkid]

Sound good for me. I need to practice my english before cause I'm no longer in Ontario so I don't use my english anymore. But I'm going to be with my Mazda3 cause my festiva got no engine/tranny/interior/wiring harness/rear axle/wheels/etc... during the winter for the BIG rebuilt.

Don't worry my festiva doesn't have an engine/trans in it either :lol:

Since it was a really nice day today i spent a few hours on the car, i wanted to see if i could re-use my tranny mounts on the probe tranny and i only installed the rear mount and it works, i still need to try out the front mount but the slave cylinder will bolt in that area so i may have to make a new front mount. i wanted to basically test fit the tranny with the axles installed, see how the shifter linkage lined up, speedo cable etc. while i had it in the engine bay and here's pics





And a quick video of me turning the tranny over by hand (its a little dark though), and everything seems to be working the way it should


The speedo cable dropped in like it belongs there


The solid bar of the shifter linkage will need to be modified a little bit, but the other one works just fine


Once i took the tranny back out i decided to do some clean up, so first i pulled the B6T wiring harness out and any un-necessary brackets etc. then the crossmember (which had tons of crap built up on it) There's quite a few scratches in the engine bay from engines being pulled in and out over the years so i'll probably give it a quick paint job under the hood before i install the engie for the last time. i'm not quite done cleaning things up but i got a good start on it

Before


After

[Maxtiva]

Sound good for me. I need to practice my english before cause I'm no longer in Ontario so I don't use my english anymore. But I'm going to be with my Mazda3 cause my festiva got no engine/tranny/interior/wiring harness/rear axle/wheels/etc... during the winter for the BIG rebuilt.

[eurotiva]

Sweet can't wait to see it run.

[Damkid]

Hey Chris when can I go to your house so you can put what you know in what you know ?
And
Brian did you receive my PM

:lol: lets wait til i have your hood and go from there