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Driving for me is neither a right nor a privilege. Driving is my passion, as it was for the people who invented the automobile, the people who paved the first roads and the people who continue to improve the automobile. Please respect this passion.
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I think I read on here that very early 4-speeds had shorter ratios than most other 4-speeds. I guess when you blow that one up maybe pull the gears and count the teeth?91GL BP/F3A with boost
13.79 @ 100, 2.2 60' on 8 psi and 155R12's
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Oh. Well, this is an early 88 so it could have the close ratio tranny. If so this could be a potential NA festy contender for "fastest festiva" drag time. hmm. I put a balancer from an Mx3 with the b6d on this car, and the festy flywheel is very close to the weight of an NA miata flywheel so I'm thinking this car won't be real hard on trannies. It's not always the TQ that kills transmissions, more often than not it's the harmonics. This car will have the softest mounts I can use without wheel hop. A lot of tranny killing cars are BP with lightened flywheels and no balancer or the wrong balancer pulley and solid motor mounts. That is a recipe for tranny destruction.Driving for me is neither a right nor a privilege. Driving is my passion, as it was for the people who invented the automobile, the people who paved the first roads and the people who continue to improve the automobile. Please respect this passion.
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Originally posted by bhearts View PostYou milled your head 20? Cool! Take it back off and do another 50, so you can run e85 and make some serious na power. That's just what I'd do. Prove all the ethanol nay sayers wrong about ethanol and fuel economyDriving for me is neither a right nor a privilege. Driving is my passion, as it was for the people who invented the automobile, the people who paved the first roads and the people who continue to improve the automobile. Please respect this passion.
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Originally posted by Advancedynamix View PostNah, this is just a replacement for the clunky carb'd b3. I plan to take some very long road trips in this car and E85 is not easy to come by on the open road. I've got plans for an E85 build, but not this car. 9.9:1 should be fine for the 91 octane we have in our pumps.
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Charlie, did you use the stock Festiva lower rad hose/bypass? I believe I read somewhere in another thread that it could be used and would free up some room and add a bit of clearance for an A/C compressor mount.
IanIan
Calgary AB, Canada
93 L B6T: June 2016 FOTM
59 Austin Healey "Bugeye" Sprite
"It's infinitely better to fail with courage than to sit idle with fear...." Chip Gaines (pg 167 of Capital Gaines, Smart Things I Learned Doing Stupid Stuff)
Link to the "Road Trip Starting Points" page of my Econobox Café blog
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Originally posted by fastivaca View PostCharlie, did you use the stock Festiva lower rad hose/bypass? I believe I read somewhere in another thread that it could be used and would free up some room and add a bit of clearance for an A/C compressor mount.
IanDriving for me is neither a right nor a privilege. Driving is my passion, as it was for the people who invented the automobile, the people who paved the first roads and the people who continue to improve the automobile. Please respect this passion.
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Originally posted by Advancedynamix View PostI did. It's a nice piece and I don't need any custom hoses. Stock festiva hoses will work. The b6d has all the same holes in the block as the b3, and everything fits from the b3 to the b6d. This is a really easy swap. Pedro never had AC, but it would be easy to keep the AC with this setup, if the car had it to begin with.Ian
Calgary AB, Canada
93 L B6T: June 2016 FOTM
59 Austin Healey "Bugeye" Sprite
"It's infinitely better to fail with courage than to sit idle with fear...." Chip Gaines (pg 167 of Capital Gaines, Smart Things I Learned Doing Stupid Stuff)
Link to the "Road Trip Starting Points" page of my Econobox Café blog
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Yeah. That's been done by a bunch of people. Pretty simple. Have you thought about running power steering?Driving for me is neither a right nor a privilege. Driving is my passion, as it was for the people who invented the automobile, the people who paved the first roads and the people who continue to improve the automobile. Please respect this passion.
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