Fastorbust's 1992 Ford Festiva Turbo Build

[ford4life]

here's the mocking up of the exhaust, high flow cat magnaflow, i will take a better pic of the underneath of the car when its during the day:




nerdracing (aaron) doing all the exhaust work


fastorbust (aaron) putting the downpipe in



another picture of the catchcan that was custom made:

[ford4life]

pictures after we got it running:



nerdracing in the background


Fastorbust (aaron) all excited that the festiva is running!


we decided to get the front end on but didn't bolt it all in cause the bumper needs to be painted:

[ford4life]

two more additonal photos of the engine bay after its startup:

[ford4life]

Now the funny photos:

nerdracing "drill away..."


we did a honda h22a dohc engine swap in 5mins???


nerdracing dislikes hondas as pictured...

[ford4life]

we still have to put the new struts and lowering springs in, aspire brake swap, and knuckle assebly. i would post a video of the car running but thats nerdracings post, as my iphone is a 3g and i can't for some reason upload the video???

[ford4life]

we also still have to wire in the boost gauge, oil pressure gauge and air to fuel gauge....

[Nerd Racing]

http://www.facebook.com/v/534766771440

link to the running video!

sorry for the poor cell phone quality.

[festyfreak39]

congrats guys!!! love the catchcan they work good and they are inexpensive, mine was exactly the same

great great project

also i might add, why are people afriad of camshafts + turbo? ... cause on my miata i used hks 264 camshafts after i boosted my car and gained around 16whp ? car was also wayyyyyy faster at the track because the powerband was where i needed it to be and it also built boost quickerwhere i needed it to be

no one ever got anywhere doing things by the book how everyone says and not learning things yourself

take some more vids!

[Nerd Racing]

I still have the cam if you want it back man. Just name your price since I bought it off you anyway.

[FastOrBust]

yea but was it a cam for boost or a n/a setup festyfreak

[Nerd Racing]

yea but was it a cam for boost or a n/a setup festyfreak

WORD! I forgot about BP26 cams from a GTX BP or GTR BP cams work in a Miata.

[iceracerdude]

so to answer your question its a garret t25, i really appreciate everyones feedback. its good to have feedback like this, fyi we are working on this tomorrow so pics will be up tomorrow night.

A garrett t25 has a t25/28 flange, not a t3. It may look like a t3, but it's not as large.
In fact here are the bolt dimensions, for a t25/28 flange:
73mm bolt center to bolt center for the long, 40mm for the short.
They did put t25's on stock 2 liter nissans (the sr20det 16 valve engine) set at 7psi to make a 140 hp engine put out 206hp.
They also did some t28's set to 9psi to make the 140 hp engine put out 227hp.

[festyfreak39]

yea but was it a cam for boost or a n/a setup festyfreak

cant take everyones word for everything all the time. u have been misinformed.

a crazy and i mean CRAZZZYYYYYYYY N/A cam is NOT a good idea for a turbo setup, obs because of duration/lift issues + valve overlap as eveyrone else here has said.

howevverrr a mild cam upgrade is going to help you your cars going to make good boost have a better power band and my afr's were slightly richer (i dont know why) AND make MOREEEEEE power.

chances are if you can use the upgraded cam without upgrading every last peice of your valvetrain, your going to be okay.

now that being said, i dont have any cam sheets so i cant compare the stock cam to the FMS cam, but chances are its not that drastic of a difference

[festyfreak39]

the cams i had on my miata were HKS264 9.5, 264 9.3

[festyfreak39]

this is makign me wanna finish my SOHC turbo kit now.