My KLZE Festiva Build Thread

[Advancedynamix]

Looking good Chris! This car will be such an animal. Dibs on a ride at FMsix!

[kumalaba]

yeah that baby is sweeeeeeeet!

[Damkid]

So tonight i wrapped and painted the downpipe



Puled the stock booster off and compared it to the protege one (festiva booster on the right)





Then got it installed



And since i have lots of wrap left over, i put a little bit on my master cylinder for added security



Then moved my fuel filter so its tucked away

[Damkid]

Got the Y pipe and turbo/blanket reinstalled for the last time



Then finally started making my new rad pipe, I got this far and ran out of wire lol

[Christ]

drool

[walth]

agreed

nice work chris

[dueces]

Shes getting there! are you getting all quagmire yet? Giggity Giggity!!

[Damkid]

Shes getting there! are you getting all quagmire yet? Giggity Giggity!!

Lol yup, I'm hoping to have all the mechanical stuff finally finished over the weekend

[nitrofarm]

Looking good Kid,keep it up.

[htchbck]

We should do this to my brother's MX-3 if he gets it lol. What about KJs? Isn't that what the Millenia-S used? That seems like a pretty potent motor. I got to drive one while diagnosing a problem with the back brakes for a co-worker a couple years ago. It was beast for being a full size sedan. It would be pretty exciting in a Festiva or even the MX-3.

[Damkid]

I agree the KJ would be wild in a smaller car, but be prepared to keep a spare SC though, the ECU looks for signals from the tranny which also controls the bypass valve, it runs 12psi in first gear, 14psi in the rest of the gears, without input from the auto trans, it runs 0psi, what DurWood (the current owner of my old KJ P5) did is "tricked" the ECU to think it's moving in first gear to get the 12psi, but it still throws a CEL

Plus the KJ is very bulky compared to a KL and it would take a bunch of engine mods to fit one in a festiva

But I will say, I think the KJ is a very neat engine and I may mess around with one again in the future

[htchbck]

I was thinking probably going in the MX3 with it, instead of a KLDE. I know he's not gonna spring for a KLZE, but every once in a while my $150 V6 pull-a-part gets an "S" in and it'd be fun to try. But I've done some reading up on the 2.5 and it looks like its pretty much like doing a later B6 into a festy, a little bit of work to do on the intake but no major custom parts, and they stock MX6/626 all day long there. I'm curious to find out exactly what "high mileage" means on that MX3 when we go to pick it up. To some folks that over 300k, but some people say high mileage at 150k when these little Mazdas are barely even broken in. What kinda gas mileage were you getting with the KL before you ripped it apart again?

[Damkid]

It really depends on how I drove it lol If I was nice to it I could get almost 300km (180 miles) per tank, that's the max I could ever get out of it lol

[Damkid]

Got done work early today so i decided to get my coolant pipe finished up today



I decided to make the flip around like this since it was easier to make, plus the old one just looked weird lol



Here's a pic of the old setup



Final test fitting the new pipe




Then a coat of paint (although the pic really sucks)..... once it's dry, it get the pipe installed and hopefully the rest of the front end as well



Thats it for now

[htchbck]

Wow, there's so much room in that engine bay with the whole front end removed! Lol