I've gone Festarded (BP+T build): pile-O-parts is almost complete!

[greenbullitt]

Yes lol. I told you before i left but i dont think you understood lol

[DON SVO]

Got some Festiva stuff done today. Engine bay is cleaned up and I'm starting to remove useless (to me) parts.

I used 66 Autocolor for this: paint, clear and hardener all-in-one. You shake it, pull the red cap off and pop it to release the clear/hardener into the paint and go to town.



Laid down pretty smooth. I'm going to lightly wet sand it and hit it with a couple more tomorrow.



We then worked on greenbullitt's street car. Here is a little street car turbo with a Shiner Bock for size reference. (Texas, y'all)



He went with Strange dual caliper rears. They call for the strong aide of the proportioning valve being the other eay around... So we had to basically re-route his brake system to do it.



I HATE brakes. They apparently hate him and I as well. It's the dumb little stuff:

[DON SVO]

Festivas are REALLY easy to work on!

[DON SVO]

Sooooo... Ran into an issue. The Kia timing cover and BLOCK appear to have different bosses for the Crank Position Sensor. I was wondering, "why is my Escort motor retarded?" and realized maybe it was me.

It was me.

So greenbullitt and I are going to strip down the Kia motor tomorrow and, well, I'll be building ANOTHER BP.

Stay tuned...

[moz]

Re: I've gone Festarded (BP+T build): pile-O-parts is almost complete!

Ohhhh SNAP!!!
Talk about learning the hard way.

[DON SVO]

Ohhhh SNAP!!!
Talk about learning the hard way.

I was going to rebuild it anyways, my time table just got moved up LOL

[zoom zoom]

Lol..that sucks, oh well, at least you'll know its fresh.

[DON SVO]

Lol..that sucks, oh well, at least you'll know its fresh.

I'll be sure to post pics of the two rebuilt engines next to each other

[DON SVO]

Just ordered some ARP head studs and an MLS head gasket kit. Hopefully, the valves are still good and we just need exhaust guides. I'll have the head, crank and block to the machine shop in a couple days.

[Oren09]

So that other engine should've gone into my truck

[DON SVO]

I'm a huge fan of only doing something once. Hence my irritation at the engine situation. However, I did get more toys for the Festielago today. 2 tight 180* 2.5" mandrel bends (for the downpipe) and the SPEC Stg. 2 BP clutch. Closer...

[DON SVO]

So today was a productive day. Kia motor has been stripped to nothing:







Like... Nothing.



Fast-tracked the fastener removal... Easiest way to remove keepers: 18mm deep socket, long extension and a big-ass mallet:





The gaskets showed up yesterday, these showed up today:



I'm going to do some light head porting. It'll need valve guides, hopefully the exhaust valves are salvageable. The OEM cross-hatch in the bore is still there, so it'll be gett
ing bearings, a hone and a re-ring. The pistons and crank look good, so those will go back in.

Greenbullitt's cat LOVES the Teal Terror!

[Hot_Wheels]

Sooooo... Ran into an issue. The Kia timing cover and BLOCK appear to have different bosses for the Crank Position Sensor. I was wondering, "why is my Escort motor retarded?" and realized maybe it was me.

It was me.

So greenbullitt and I are going to strip down the Kia motor tomorrow and, well, I'll be building ANOTHER BP.

Stay tuned...

hey so the reason for the bp build is due to you are using the kia motor which uses a crank position sensor instead of a cam angle sensor? can you post pictures of the difference between the 2 blocks and a picture of the crank angle sensor set up? will you need to make any clearance on the frame rail to run the kia crank pulley?

[DON SVO]

hey so the reason for the bp build is due to you are using the kia motor which uses a crank position sensor instead of a cam angle sensor? can you post pictures of the difference between the 2 blocks and a picture of the crank angle sensor set up? will you need to make any clearance on the frame rail to run the kia crank pulley?

The other car ran with the Kia BP with very minimal clearance needed.

The Kia block is the same as a 95+ Miata block, which has a boss for the timing cover since the timing cover accepts the CPS. I'll get photos when they're done I assume, I'm not stripping the finished engine down.

[nitrofarm]

So your using the internals from the KIA BP for a Mazda BP which has the correct timing cover & boss's?