Chris's Lifted BP swap

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[QUOTE=shadetree;607271] any of the five bp swaps i have done /QUOTE]

just 5 BP swaps? is that all? :p

[shadetree]

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any of the five bp swaps i have done /QUOTE]

just 5 BP swaps? is that all? :p

haha yea I can't really count ironstiva it was bpt on MS . I moved it back to stock bp or it would really be six !
Sometimes I forget how many swaps I really have done !

[Micro Mudder]

And if you don't have a donor car to get them terminals off of?

[shadetree]

Ck a local yard and cut the plug off ! Maybe start a wtb .

[Micro Mudder]

I thought about checking a yard and will go sometime this week but idk how to start a wtb thread to use pay pal but it would take to long to get parts
But I do need a air intake, a vaf, them connectiors for the ecm, bottom pully cuz I sold my b3 before pulling it off..... that's about it but I should be able to get it running by this weekend! So a week on my first motor swap I can deal with any day! But knock on wood

But today I got a lot done and looked at a near by festy to buy! But all the electrical should be done tomorrow and put my dash back in that I didn't need to take out in the first place...... and working in a cleen engine bay isn't any different haha other then you can see the made in Korea sticker now!

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^ yea but if you out the splash gaurds back in and keep it clean you might actually have an engine bay left to work in next time.

If you can't find a VAF or pinouts let me know I've got some floating around.

[Micro Mudder]

Found connecotrs for the ecm at a ford dealership for free! And I got my motor wired in and turned the key and that puppyy started right up!! Sounds sick! And now I got to pull it back out to make all the electrical all pretty! But it didn't have the vaf hooked up and it ran perfict so do I have a wire hooked up wrong?

And my spash guards are on still but they do no good when your in mud or watter up to the mid bumper haha

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How does the fuel pump kick on if the VAF isn't plugged in?

[Micro Mudder]

Idk haha it just does by festy magic but ill try to figuer it out

[Micro Mudder]

Got new gas llines and trying to rig a perminent way to do the radieator hose! Need help on that! And what vacume spots on the engine to I plug cuz it had PS and AC

[Micro Mudder]

Now I've been going of mattswap pdf file build thread and is there any other way around cutting a hole in the firewall for the motor to fit?

[shadetree]

Yes drop the front xmember about an inch and then fab your front eng mount to fit then ! Beat in the firewall about an inch with a hammer and your good !

[Micro Mudder]

Okay ill deffently do that cuz I allready have to repair the frount cradle so adding 1inch I can do but wouldent that tilt the engin making it not level? Cuz aparently in reading that's kinda brough up a lot

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Plug all the open barbs you don't use for vics and the evap if you keep that. The fpr has to have vacuum, so does the brake booster, might be another one I'm forgetting? Autozone and advance carry colored vacuum plugs!

You might try swapping on your old Festiva upper and lower housings and retain the stock radiator and hoses? I know the BP is about 3/4" longer but the hose should stretch?

[Micro Mudder]

Yea I got a top radieator hose to work but the bottom one I couldn't find any to work so I'm trying flexible heater hose but need to get a spring for the inside so it don't collapse on itself.. and the vacuum hose thang on the firewall I don't need right cuz one of the nipples broke off and one of the pcv broke off I think do I blneed it?