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Hello everyone,
I'm not too big on Internet forums but I'll give it a shot. I picked up a '93 Festiva with the B6T swap this weekend past. Recently sold my S14 240SX because of the tickets it was attracting to buy something a little less noticeable. Not sure how exactly that turned out, was planning on buying a B13 SE-R. But I'm a Mazda guy at heart, ever since my parents purchased a new 626 back in 1990, although I didn't know it at the time. Anyway my best friend loves hunting craigslist and found this '93 Festiva with the motor swap done, and since we both have the B6T motors in our turbo Miatas he wanted it so he called up the guy and put a deposit down, but then his fiance found out about it and shut it down. I happen to be single and be sitting on some cash from the recent sell so I jumped on it. It felt rough on the way home, it did not like the transition from vacuum to boost and felt very rough, but once it got into boost it was difficult to keep pointed straight in 1st and 2nd, the tires stopped spinning in 3rd for the most part, but it was still difficult to keep pointed straight under hard acceleration. While driving on the highway on the way home it started backfiring real bad and I knew I'd lost spark on at least one cylinder. Before this I had apparently been cruising at 90mph due to how straight it was on the highway but didn't know it at the time because the car has no speedo cable, my friend following in my family's '88 626 let me know later. So anyway we pulled over and found that the throttle cable had worn through one of the plug wires and was grounding the spark. After we remedied that we were back on some back roads for safety's sake and it was running rougher still than at first, still managed to pull on some guy in a Z28 Camaro at a light while backfiring, lol, I enjoyed that. Anyway, today I was gathering parts for a tune up including new NGK plugs, new distributor rotor, couldn't find a new cap so I just cleaned the old one, went to four different parts stores to find one but nothing. Tracked down some used plug wires from a '95 Protege for the time being until I can get some NGK's, I've worked at Mazmart since '06 so I have good access to parts. Got home and installed everything, pulled some damn Autolite plugs out of the motor. Took it for a test drive and it was completely different than the day before. No hesitation in transition to boost, the motor felt smooth and strong everywhere. Too much power for the car's current configuration. Need to back the boost off until the car is more controllable. I'm new to these vehicles so I don't know about factory or aftermarket upgrades I can do, the car also came with a Ford Aspire parts car, which I'm told I need to take suspension and hub/spindle parts from so I can get a 4 x 100 bolt pattern. The car is in bad need of proper suspension and brakes so I just need to spend time searching and reading about such things, although I wouldn't mind at all if someone points me in the right direction. To wrap all of my rambling up I'm excited about what this car is capable of and I know if I can set it up right it will be an extremely fun car that's reliable and can embarrass much more expensive sheet metal.
I'll attach some pics so everyone can admire her beauty, lol.
-Travis
I'm not too big on Internet forums but I'll give it a shot. I picked up a '93 Festiva with the B6T swap this weekend past. Recently sold my S14 240SX because of the tickets it was attracting to buy something a little less noticeable. Not sure how exactly that turned out, was planning on buying a B13 SE-R. But I'm a Mazda guy at heart, ever since my parents purchased a new 626 back in 1990, although I didn't know it at the time. Anyway my best friend loves hunting craigslist and found this '93 Festiva with the motor swap done, and since we both have the B6T motors in our turbo Miatas he wanted it so he called up the guy and put a deposit down, but then his fiance found out about it and shut it down. I happen to be single and be sitting on some cash from the recent sell so I jumped on it. It felt rough on the way home, it did not like the transition from vacuum to boost and felt very rough, but once it got into boost it was difficult to keep pointed straight in 1st and 2nd, the tires stopped spinning in 3rd for the most part, but it was still difficult to keep pointed straight under hard acceleration. While driving on the highway on the way home it started backfiring real bad and I knew I'd lost spark on at least one cylinder. Before this I had apparently been cruising at 90mph due to how straight it was on the highway but didn't know it at the time because the car has no speedo cable, my friend following in my family's '88 626 let me know later. So anyway we pulled over and found that the throttle cable had worn through one of the plug wires and was grounding the spark. After we remedied that we were back on some back roads for safety's sake and it was running rougher still than at first, still managed to pull on some guy in a Z28 Camaro at a light while backfiring, lol, I enjoyed that. Anyway, today I was gathering parts for a tune up including new NGK plugs, new distributor rotor, couldn't find a new cap so I just cleaned the old one, went to four different parts stores to find one but nothing. Tracked down some used plug wires from a '95 Protege for the time being until I can get some NGK's, I've worked at Mazmart since '06 so I have good access to parts. Got home and installed everything, pulled some damn Autolite plugs out of the motor. Took it for a test drive and it was completely different than the day before. No hesitation in transition to boost, the motor felt smooth and strong everywhere. Too much power for the car's current configuration. Need to back the boost off until the car is more controllable. I'm new to these vehicles so I don't know about factory or aftermarket upgrades I can do, the car also came with a Ford Aspire parts car, which I'm told I need to take suspension and hub/spindle parts from so I can get a 4 x 100 bolt pattern. The car is in bad need of proper suspension and brakes so I just need to spend time searching and reading about such things, although I wouldn't mind at all if someone points me in the right direction. To wrap all of my rambling up I'm excited about what this car is capable of and I know if I can set it up right it will be an extremely fun car that's reliable and can embarrass much more expensive sheet metal.
I'll attach some pics so everyone can admire her beauty, lol.
-Travis
nice score! u defenetly wont draw any attention from the cops!!
for about 3 weeks i had a verry stiff neck!
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