My KLZE Festiva Build Thread

[Damkid]

i talked to my boss about the two engines that are at my work and he thinks one might possibly be a KL-ZE which would be awesome!! the guy that owns the engines will be into work tomorrow so i'll be talking to him about the engine and see if i can get one!!!

[hofficergrover]

Sweet!!!

[pr0nst4r]

Oh eM Gee

I hope this goes with the v6 so bad...

[chrisofna]

I hope you dont grenade that diff with the phantom grip like most honda guys with those do. I never hear good things about them.

[Damkid]

^^I haven't heard any bad news about them

Here's todays progress, i got my bolts in for the ring gear and i installed them with red loc-tite and i added 4 small welds to help hold the ring gear in place, and as stated earlier the bolts did hit first gear so i had to grind them down a little bit so they would clear


Before any grinding was done and you can see the 4 welds i did in this pic




I was re-assembling the tranny and when i got to this point and was ready to put the other half of the case on i realized i don't have any silicone :bash: so now i have to wait til tomorrow to pick some up so i can finish assembling the tranny


Hopefully tomorrow i will be finished with the tranny

[Maxtiva]

i realized i don't have any silicone :bash: so now i have to wait til tomorrow to pick some up

:sign3:LOL

[Damkid]

:sign3:LOL

:violent3: :lol:

[GUS]

So if this does pan out, what kinda time frame are you looking at to delve into this swap? I am only asking because an engine swap into my festy never appealed to me till this.

[Damkid]

At the latest i want to be digging into the swap by spring, at the moment i have my 300zx in the garage taking up space and its now up for sale, so the sooner it sells the sooner i can start on the swap

[GUS]

awesome

[Damkid]

Here's the progress of today,

After i ground down the bolts yesterday i didn't feel like loc-tite alone was enough so today i took the tranny into work and ground down the bolts a bit more and welded the top of the bolts so the nuts will never move for sure and i picked up some silicone and i finally re-assembled the tranny

Tomorrow i will pull an axle from my festiva and fit it into the tranny :evil4:

[Maxtiva]

Nice progress Chris

[Damkid]

^^Thanks Maxim

[JPT]

I hate reading stuff like this. It puts lots of expensive ideas in my head. If I end up doing something like this, it'll be all your fault, damkid! :p

[Damkid]

^^:lol::lol: well i'll gladly take the blame, but just think of the expensive ideas in my head, i love turbos (which is why i bought a B6T car) but i love being original (which is why i'm going to attempt a V6 swap) so i could be the first to turbo a V6 in a festiva :evil4: imagine the power then!!!