My very very very slow build.

[NicholasJackson]

I want a rhd festy...

How about a festiva from canada? They're RHD aren't they?

Nice score on the Asp errr Festiva for 400 bucks dude!

Are you planning on keeping the tranny polished ?

Nice work, and please more pics of the RHD !!

I dont know hey wouldnt mind polishing it. But sometimes i just cant be bothered.

Pics as per requested.

Im following your build very closely M3NTAL. Good stuff.

[Damkid]

How about a festiva from canada? They're RHD aren't they?

Nope, all north american cars are LHD

[NicholasJackson]

If you ever have a couple of thousand lying around id be willing to find a festiva and ship it over for you.

[Brayy]

yeah we got heaps down here for around $200... But i think mums letting me get a parts car ^__^.

[Christ]

Eh, I could build it for the cost to do that. Thanks though lol

[DriverOne]

Why not ship over the RHD parts instead of the whole car?

[Christ]

Cuz that would include a dash, firewall, and dash wiring... All over sized, and very expensive to ship, and RHD is awesome, but its not "customs fees" awesome.

[Brayy]

well if you want to fit the shipping bill i could send you the whole dash , wiring but idk how sending and cutting a firewall would go.. pull you get the aussie centre dash pocket (divet in the middle of the dash )
done anything else to your ride Nick ?

[Christ]

well if you want to fit the shipping bill i could send you the whole dash , wiring but idk how sending and cutting a firewall would go.. pull you get the aussie centre dash pocket (divet in the middle of the dash )
done anything else to your ride Nick ?

I may consider this, except not the whole firewall, just a couple cuts from it.

[Brayy]

it wouldnt matter on a 5 or 3 door firewall ? , as i may be getting a 5 door parts car if its still available..

[Christ]

Nope, unless the 5d had some special options.

[NicholasJackson]

Havent been working on the car for a while, currently renovating the place where im staying. Did quite a lot today though.

Firstly i cut out the crappy radiator supports the bustards at burson auto's gave me. Not too sure what im going to do about that yet, might just have to buy a junk yard support.



I was a little worried about the engine at the cap the oil looked really bad burnt with heaps of deposits, took the cover and im really happy, not too bad at all.



Took most of the junk to the tip today water bottles the radiator etc.



Pulled most of the interior out and took all the wiring out.



There is A LOT of wiring! This cant be an obd1 engine.

Going to be doing a lot of splicing and dicing.



Took the ecu out, it is a HUGE ecu never seen a b3 ecu like it. Also pulled out a "unit-tws" which i have no idea what it is hahaha. If someone could enlighten me on that, it would be appreciated.

[Bert]

Looking at all the wire and electronics from your scavenging (and these are old cars by today's standards) makes me lust for the good old days when you could run a loose engine on your workbench with nothing but a gas can, siphon, set of cables and a battery.

[NicholasJackson]

Looking at all the wire and electronics from your scavenging (and these are old cars by today's standards) makes me lust for the good old days when you could run a loose engine on your workbench with nothing but a gas can, siphon, set of cables and a battery.

Yeah i know what you mean hey. I kind of love wiring hahah, looking forward to it.

Did some more work today wrote down a 18 point list i want to complete in two weeks. I crossed four off today. Took out the aspires exhaust system, master cylinder, sway bar and the engine.

Ill take some photo's tomorrow, started to get cloudy.

Here's the rest of my list.

Aspire
- Remove trans and axles
- Clean up wiring
- Remove fuel pump
- Remove strust tie rods knuckles lca's rear beam
- start engine rebuild

Festiva
- prep metal for radiator support
- weld support
- put in escort mc
- put it clutch mc
- clutch lines
- put in hydro f series trans
- put in engine
- finish interior


- Nick.

[NicholasJackson]

I though i might update this thread. Ive been a little busy ive gone back to uni and for the last week of the holidays i got incredibly sick.

For the aspire i completed :

- Remove trans and axles
- Clean up wiring
- Remove fuel pump
- Remove strust tie rods knuckles lca's rear beam

everything except for the engine rebuild.

With the wiring ive got it all separated and thanks to a kind member on this forum i have inquired 33 pages of wiring diagrams for the kia ecu...... all in german, so i spent a day translating to english. I just need to weed out the wires i dont need.

I also picked up another free f series transmission and finally removed the f series flywheel from the carb b6 i have.

Im thinking that im going to get someone in and tig the rad support on for me.

Next week i hopefully want to get the suspension disassembled and painted and install the week after that.