My KLZE Festiva Build Thread

[jawbraeka]

Love those seats..

Need a clean but overall damn mang.. Good job.

Sent from the depths of hell.

[Damkid]

GT rear seat install complete

[Aaronbrook37]

Well at first I asked the Easter bunny, but since I ran over a lot of his friends he didn't wanna help me out.... So I was patient and was on my best behavior for a whole year and I went to visit Santa.... I even sat on his lap and got my picture taken.... I got extra friendly with him and asked for the body kit, and on Christmas morning he brought me the body kit and left it under my tree with his phone number

Ho ho ho!

[Damkid]

Love that bobbed look, where did you get it? I'd considered chopping the stock bumper down but this should be way easier.

Well at first I asked the Easter bunny, but since I ran over a lot of his friends he didn't wanna help me out.... So I was patient and was on my best behavior for a whole year and I went to visit Santa.... I even sat on his lap and got my picture taken.... I got extra friendly with him and asked for the body kit, and on Christmas morning he brought me the body kit and left it under my tree with his phone number

[greywolf200]

Love that bobbed look, where did you get it? I'd considered chopping the stock bumper down but this should be way easier.

I made up a custom rear bumper support today, the stock steel beam pushed the rear bumper cover about an inch away from the body which was hell on the fitment

So my options were to completely modify the stock support, or custom make one, making one was much easier

The steel is 3/16" thick and total it's just about as heavy as the stock support.... My thoughts are that it's better to have it and not need it, then need it and not have it

As you can see in this pic, the rear bumper cover sits much tighter to the body then the stock plastic cover

[Spike]

The bumpers will be red before the car goes down the road...

Maybe I meant boattail. I dunno. Just realized white bumper would technically make it a bobtail lol.

[Damkid]

Ian - since this info will be useful to you too, I cut the flange off the stock bumper support, bolted them to the car and used pieces of the 1"x2" to space out the main pieces enough to clear the body like this....



Hopefully this helps you when you go to install your body kit

[fastivaca]

Thanks for posting that info Chris. Adds to my excitement for getting started on my project. It too shall be red!

Sent from somewhere west of here via Tapatalk!

[Damkid]

The bumpers will be red before the car goes down the road...

[Spike]

Quality workmanship, I like it! It's got that whole bobtail thing going on.

[Damkid]

I made up a custom rear bumper support today, the stock steel beam pushed the rear bumper cover about an inch away from the body which was hell on the fitment

So my options were to completely modify the stock support, or custom make one, making one was much easier

The steel is 3/16" thick and total it's just about as heavy as the stock support.... My thoughts are that it's better to have it and not need it, then need it and not have it



As you can see in this pic, the rear bumper cover sits much tighter to the body then the stock plastic cover



Up next....

[luisalberto]

ok, yea im at work and happen to catch it I just get 10 min break, alright man. great job

[Damkid]

Read just a couple posts further and you'll see that I tried swapping just the spider gears... It doesn't work

If you also keep reading in the thread, you'll see I ended up with a 26 spline Mfactory diff

[luisalberto]

I've had a spare G series tranny for a while and the other day i picked up this probe GT tranny, i've always been intrigued by the BG V6 swap in the 90-94 323's

So the idea occured to me if there basically the same tranny (internally) except for different bell housings, then i "should" be able to swap the differentials making the probe tanny able to accept the 323/capri axles, which "should" make a V6 swap relatively simple

so i tore down the two trannies today to compare and here's what i found

The 323 tranny with the 5th gear cover off


now with the case separated


And a bare empty tranny


The probe tranny with the case separated


bare empty probe tranny with all the parts spread over the bench


And here's the part i was looking to find out, the differentials side-by-side, the 323 is on the left


You can see the probe's ring gear is thicker but it's not taller that the 323's but as far as i can tell thats the only difference in the differentials other than the spline count



The only difference i've spotted so far with the gear sets so far is the gear that drives the differential is thicker on the probe tranny

The 323 gear:


Probe gear:


I set the 323 differential in the probe housing and it fits like it belongs, so when i re-assemble the tranny i'll use the 323 diff in the probe tranny so it'll be ready to swap into a festiva :evil4:

i just looked at this post one question? are you swaping the probe diff for the 323 diff? instead of doing that why don't you change the side gears into the probe diff and have the same diff in the probe but different side gears if the housings are the same they should fit in there. like i said i just happen to run across this and read it, i don't know if i read it wrong.

[Damkid]

My KLZE Festiva Build Thread

Backrests fully mounted



Still need to make attachment points for the bottom cushion and trim the panels to fit since the backrests are slightly wider then festiva seats.... I'll also need to trim the rear speaker panels to clear the angle iron