Psychobilly Festiva- '93 GL Sport BP/F5MR, one piece at a time

[Tommychu]

Uhh, Yeah Red rider this is the Tommychu in the Psychobilly Festiva, come on.
Negatory on the cost of this here mo'chine there Red Rider.
You might say I went right up to the junkyard and picked it up, it's cheaper that way.
What model is it?
Well it's an '81 '85 '87 '88 '89 '90 '91 '93 automobile,
It's a '94 '95 '97 '99 '04...

Finally found a clever, fitting name, so here's my build thread. Pics and write-ups when I have more time. I don't take many pictures though, never think to while I'm working.

[Aaronbrook37]

Finally I'm looking forward to this build for sure, Tommy!

[sasquatch]

whoo

[freshtiva]

I like the way this is starting....Psychobilly Festiva

[scitzz]

Psychobilly FTW!

[91blufestiva]

Sounds fun, I'll be watchin for sure!

[91_festy_Gl]

Good song and good name for a festiva!

[Tommychu]

Where I'm at as of last weekend:


Brought my buddy Matt out (he's got all the specialty tools) last Sunday to start putting the bottom end together. Crank went in w/ARP Main studs, and lots of plastigage got squished up, went to drop the Rockauto 9.5:1 pistons in, and his crappy ring compressor let go of the step ring. And he kept tapping on it.
So, I'm waiting on another ring set...

[Tommychu]

I found another interchangeable part for our cars. I didn't want to do a cone filter, and I want to use as many non-festiva stock or stock replacement parts as possible without hurting performance. So, this is the air box I found:



1987 Toyota Supra 7M-GE N/A. It's a round, radially pleated cotton-on-paper filter about 9" in diameter. Bolts up to the BP VAF, there's a small gap from the Supra VAF being about 1/8" taller, but a small aluminum plate will take care of that:


Flow shouldn't be an issue:

[Aaronbrook37]

Cool! Great find, Tommy! Here's my $0.02:

http://www.knfilters.com/search/product.aspx?Prod=E-2605-1

Here's the K&N Air filter for the car in question... it gives you a cross-reference for finding boxes!

[Tommychu]

I was surprised at the length of that list. Who knew such an oddball filter was used on so many cars?

[Tommychu]

Got the rings. Gonna see how much harder to break sealed power rings are than rockauto rings. Or finish my bottom end.

Here's hoping for the latter...

[Tommychu]

Found this picture:



Did this while pulling the tranny, a month and a half ago. Pulled the engine and tranny together, and it was really tough to split the two when they were hanging from the crappy junkyard chain hoist. So I grabbed the accessory belt off the supra next to the 323 (actually the same supra I got the airbox from) and wrapped it through the hoist loop on the engine. Picture is from the day after the pull, when I first did this the engine was sitting roughly parallel to the ground. made it really easy to work with. Perhaps not the safest way to do it but it got the job done...

[Tommychu]

Update:
Got my head back today, bottom end assembly finished (For reference, anyone looking to use ARP mainstuds with a Protege MBSP, get the drill and/or die grinder out) on the weekend, painted the block, and did a very effective job of losing my USB cable for my phone, so I can't show my progress off without completely disassembling it to get at the SD card (Motorola i680, it's a pain just getting to the battery).

I'm single now, so my already bloated project budget is now much bigger. Just ordered CS adjustable timing gears, Exhintake here I come!

MORE POWAH

[leapin]

Sweet! Find that cable for some pics!