Aspire BP swap

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Some of the extra Rio stuff I picked up..

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Spent about 6 hours on this last night..I figure another 4 or 5 and it will be spotless. I have to find more dawn power dissolver tho, hopefully Walmart restocked it. The valves themselves do NOT want to come clean, I don't know what I'm going to do about them, the springs and retainers shined right up tho.

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Alot of progress has been made since the last update, I got the head back from the machine shop, they did a 3 way valve job, valve grinding, milled the head .02", and put the new valve stem seals on for me (why not..)

I have the rio transmission apart and trying to figure out what to do with it, it's not a G series transmission..

I got my new megasquirt in the mail today!

[91mcnasty]

Yummy, you go with a lex unit?

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yea, it was a little cheaper than the diyautotune ones, and I couldn't find any signifigant difference between them, aside from the cases lol, I like the diyautotune cases better but the price difference didn't make it worth it.

Best part is I didnt get hit with any Customs charges!

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I got one of the pistons out..just so much crap going on lately I haven't had time to do what needs to be done...anyway, I don't think this looks too bad, but the side of the piston is a bit scuffed, what do you guys think? That little heat spot shouldn't hurt Anything right..so far I'm planning on getting new main bearings and rings & a hone job.

[Aspire SVT]

Take a look at the cylinder walIs closely in the block. My 2+3 pistons looked like that and there was some minor grooves in the cylinder about midway down. I think mine got a little toasty too. The water jackets had a ton of crusty crap in them. Took a long blow gun and a long screwdriver to make a big dust
cloud. I also removed the block drain plug and it was packed full of debris. How many miles on your bp, mines supposed to have 56k miles on it which other than the cylinder wall issue it looks it. Is that the nd64 generic mega squirt? Mine is on order should be shipping Friday I'm told. I plan on running the B3T on it and eventually my BP+T. id gladly share any info I can to help. I'm new to the ms game.

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It's a stratified (lex@cp.com) built PnP unit for a 90-94 protege. I don't know anything about it yet! I can't wait to get the engine in so I can start playing with it tho lol...


I'll take a look at the cylinders again, I just popped rest of the pistons out earlier today right before work. I'm in the process of cleaning them now. I don't know how to safely go about removing the oil ring tho..

The block had 96k on it. I've never owned a car with less than 115k before this!

[Aspire SVT]

I bought mine from stratified as well but mines the generic one so I'm going to have to do some research on how to find/build a basic tune along with a few other things.

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I think mine comes with a built in tune for starting the car...I'm not familiar with the program yet, I just popped the disk in and messed around for a minute, and I'm really not even sure what most of it was. Pm me if you think I might be able to help you out with something tho. I still have at least a few weeks worth of work before I can start messing with the wiring.

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Dunno who moved my thread but thanks.. it's more appropriate here!

Update, I went and picked up a new (92k mi) G series cable clutch tranny from a 1991 Mercury Capri Turbo (xr2?) from the same place I got the BP about 2 hours away from me.

I got the whole passenger side axel with it from hub to differential, but I don't think I'm going to use it. I have to do some measurements and stuff once I get the engine and transmission together and mounted in the engine bay before I know what I'll need, the kia axel plugs into the G series tranny.

[crazyrog17]

The XR2 jack shaft setup would eliminate torque steer. I think the Aspire being a little wider than the Festiva and Capri might give you trouble with it, but you could use Festiva LCAs to bring in the track width.

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I'm just wondering how much a LSD would help the torque steer. I don't want to sound like I know what I'm talking about, but it sounds like its going to be easier to just use the KIA axels, they are supposed to be the right length and inner/outter spline count for an aspire. if I have to later I can always swap out.

Just for the record, the KIA axel is thicker than the xr2 axel.

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Well I ordered the 28 spline mfactory differential earlier for my new used G series transmission! Got a few decals to go with cause I like stickers. Hopefully it doesn't take too long to ship!

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I meant 26* spline.. I guess nobody's paying attention except damkid on cp.com!

anyway, teammfactory.com had some site issues yesterday and they ended up rejecting my payment, so I called them today and payed thru paypal over the phone with the guy there to confirm it went thru, and for the trouble he's throwing in some decals for free! He said I should get it sometime next week! hopefully my engine block will be getting done about the same time....I can't wait to get this car on the road.