My KLZE Festiva Build Thread

[Damkid]

:lol: yes if it fires up a video will follow

[JPT]

My goal is to fire it up on sunday

I hope your goal is a video too!

[wybnrml]

My goal is to fire it up on sunday

Sunday, I can't wait for "It's ALIVE!"

[hofficergrover]

Awesome vids!!

[Damkid]

Nice job get it going man! This thing going to be sweet!

My goal is to fire it up on sunday

[hofficergrover]

Nice job get it going man! This thing going to be sweet!

[Nerd Racing]

cool, I'm interested in seeing your results! I just want to get mine running for now, just in case my truck dies...

[Damkid]

Actually yes, i've gone through the second harness and i'm just about done with it

today i started by stripping the interior out to re-wire a few things, i've decided to go ahead with a wire-tuck now, it may not be a perfect tuck, but hey it's my first attempt at one :lol:

Here's how the car looks right now..... kind of a sad sight but i'm just thinking of the finished product



A nice bare engine bay



The festiva wiring that will be re-used



And the back of the engine where i ran the first harness i trimmed down



Next step is to bolt the engine in place, then run the wires where i want them so i can do whatever i need to do to keep the harness hidden

[hofficergrover]

Hey any new progress?

[Nerd Racing]

umm, my build thread is on clubprotege.com, and fordaspire.com. I won't further cluttler his thread up.

[JPT]

sounds like your engine sits higher than mine too, mine tucks nicely under the lip, and I folded mine up against the firewall. It just took a few good hits with a dead blow hammer.

Any pics?

[Nerd Racing]

sounds like your engine sits higher than mine too, mine tucks nicely under the lip, and I folded mine up against the firewall. It just took a few good hits with a dead blow hammer.

[Damkid]

the VRIS actuators literally were resting against that lip on the firewall, so the aspire engine bay has got to be much bigger

[Nerd Racing]

oh ok, I had plenty of clearance, hmm, maybe the aspire bay is a lot larger than I thought. I always thought it was more of a myth that it was considerably larger.

[Damkid]

no VRIS? its like VICS for a BP, you will want that extra little oomph!

I took the VRIS butterfly flaps out of the intake so i can take off the actuators for clearance on the firewall, i know i'll be losing a bit of performance that way, but when i throw boost at the engine with a custom intake, the VRIS won't be any good to me anyway, so i'm eliminating it now while it's easier to do

Basically i'm planning the wiring as if there's already is a turbo attached to it