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December of 2009 I bought a 92 capri xr2 with intentions of swapping the motor into the 93 festiva that I bought in February of 2010. Once we pulled the b6t out we cleaned everything up and painted the block and valve cover also replacing all the gaskets and adding a new water pump and timing kit. We also did kyb shocks all the way around with QA springs (150 in the front and 350 in the back) and the aspire front sway bar along with the capri brake swap. My next big purchase was the 16g td05hr turbo with a megan racing manifold off of an evoX for $150! Little did I know, this decision would alter soooo many things later in the build. To get the megan racing manifold to fit, i had to order the Miata exhaust manifold and chop the flange off of it and weld it to my existing flange and port match the holes and also drill the holes for the bolts (not easy at all since it was stainless steel, went through 4 $20 cobalt bits). Once we had that all situated we had to get our radiator hooked up. Long explanation short, the turbo and manifold are in the way so we had to notch the frame a little bit and use a civic radiatior which barely squeezed into place. From there we had to make a maze of hoses and copper fittings to avoid our transmission mount and the turbo. Then we relocated the battery and added a cut off switch for it, built a custom exhaust that is 2.5" all the way with a 3" electric cut out up front going to a 18" glasspack and ending with a silencing tip. From there we installed a civic short throw shifter and an autometer memory tach and AEM digital wideband and AEM tru-boost. The intercooler kit came from ebay and we used 2.25" piping with a tial knock off bov. Future plans are some nitto drag radials and a rocketchip! Hoping to see 12's at the track
here's a link to all the pictures i have http://s882.photobucket.com/albums/ac28/festivBS/
here's a link to all the pictures i have http://s882.photobucket.com/albums/ac28/festivBS/
which manifold flange are you talkin about? The evo one or miata one?
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