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1990 Festiva L-plus
200K+ miles
Ran on 3 cylinders, oil soaked engine ebay, damaged front left fender, hatch strapped shut, drivers window duck taped up
Started really working on it last week, drove her to the car wash and sprayed down the engine bay and everything in it to try to remove some of the oil. Everything was so liberally soaked in oil that everything was black or brown. After the engine and tranny were removed, half shafts went back in so I could tow the car to the car wash again to wash the engine bay. There was alot of oil. This also helped me see the damaged frame and strut tower.
Friday before Christmas I picked up a BP and tranny from an escort GT that 80k miles. Engine was not complete, but I had another one that had almost everything. Used the cable G-series I had for my B6T for this swap, probably use the hydro tranny for the B6T unless I can find another cable tranny. Mounts are a pain to make, or at least start. My suggestion for mounts is to start with the rear tranny one, then go to the front tranny mount and then lastly the engine one. Mounted the tranny in initially but did not like how close it was to the steering rack and then the engine touched the firewall, so I moved it forward, maybe a little too much but I think it will work just will have to get a slim fan.
Everything is out of the car right now while I finish the wiring. Almost done with that, then on to putting it back in and making sure it all works. Will end up pulling the motor out once I ensure everything works to weld the damage frame and clean up the install, I want to do somewhat of a wire tuck on this thing so it doesn't look like I hacked it in.
Will upload more pics as I progress, hope to be done by the end of the month. Hard to work out in the shop when it is 5 degrees, so I don't work on the car till I can be out there for a few hours and then I fire up the wood burner.
Anyway, here are some pretty pathetic pics
Oil and damaged strut tower
On car dolly to go to the car wash after having engine removed
Dirty engine bay
Much cleaner
Damaged frame on passenger side
Engine resting in engine bay (first set of tranny mounts and engine hits firewall)
Engine is now more to the drivers side and further forward.
200K+ miles
Ran on 3 cylinders, oil soaked engine ebay, damaged front left fender, hatch strapped shut, drivers window duck taped up
Started really working on it last week, drove her to the car wash and sprayed down the engine bay and everything in it to try to remove some of the oil. Everything was so liberally soaked in oil that everything was black or brown. After the engine and tranny were removed, half shafts went back in so I could tow the car to the car wash again to wash the engine bay. There was alot of oil. This also helped me see the damaged frame and strut tower.
Friday before Christmas I picked up a BP and tranny from an escort GT that 80k miles. Engine was not complete, but I had another one that had almost everything. Used the cable G-series I had for my B6T for this swap, probably use the hydro tranny for the B6T unless I can find another cable tranny. Mounts are a pain to make, or at least start. My suggestion for mounts is to start with the rear tranny one, then go to the front tranny mount and then lastly the engine one. Mounted the tranny in initially but did not like how close it was to the steering rack and then the engine touched the firewall, so I moved it forward, maybe a little too much but I think it will work just will have to get a slim fan.
Everything is out of the car right now while I finish the wiring. Almost done with that, then on to putting it back in and making sure it all works. Will end up pulling the motor out once I ensure everything works to weld the damage frame and clean up the install, I want to do somewhat of a wire tuck on this thing so it doesn't look like I hacked it in.
Will upload more pics as I progress, hope to be done by the end of the month. Hard to work out in the shop when it is 5 degrees, so I don't work on the car till I can be out there for a few hours and then I fire up the wood burner.
Anyway, here are some pretty pathetic pics
Oil and damaged strut tower
On car dolly to go to the car wash after having engine removed
Dirty engine bay
Much cleaner
Damaged frame on passenger side
Engine resting in engine bay (first set of tranny mounts and engine hits firewall)
Engine is now more to the drivers side and further forward.
cant wt to see it finished,looks like your a fast builder.
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