monkeykiller1996's build log

[monkeykiller1996]

preface: well as any project, its going to take longer than a week to get it done i work full time as many do so i only have select weekends (and and a tight wallet) to actually work on it but im going to try to get something up at least every Saturday/Sunday well here goes

so far my festiva life has been short and alittle cruel my first festiva i bought for $600 (88 rust bucket) and i only had it for about 1 1/2 days before it caught fire it was a complete loss, so that same day it caught fire my dad had me go pay his car payment for him and it just so happens that the car dealer just took one in on trade(89) and i picked it up for $525 (under 600 even after tax and title)so thats the car i have now



well i hate the color red so i rattle canned it black




as for the motor that i had picked out for the swap well i wish i did more research before i went to the jy and pulled one out,well i was looking for a bp/b6 engine so i read somewere that some select kia's had the bp in them well the kia i picked was too new i guess i look at the hood sticker and it said 1.8L so i jumped the gun and bought it then i got home with is and try to fit my spare festiva tranny i had at the time and the bolt holes nowhere near lined up, so that night i got on the computer and finally did the well needed research well it turns out i have a kia T8D motor, if i did my research right kia bought the tooling rights for the bp/b8 engine so i basically have a kia made bp. well with out further a due, some pictures









when i got the transmission i planned of saving some money on a clutch if it was still any good on the jy donor car well it was crapped out so for a month or so i keep procrastinating on buying one, however with fathers day this past weekend i ended up buying my dad a clutch for his mazda 626 because we thought it was going out (spent all fathers day together replacing his clutch) well is clutch was still like new but his pressure plate crapped out on us, it turn out that a clutch disk from a 97 mazda 626 fits and works in a 03 kia spectra engine who knew

crapped out kia clutch



used mazda clutch




well time for some bad news i ruined my transmission trying to slip the engine and tranny together. as i was mating them up i heard a clank like metal against metal i didnt think much of it until i tried to slip an axle stub in to turn the input shaft to get it align with the clutch, it slippen right in and out now thats a problem so i took my inspection camera and put it inside the transmission and found that the diff. gears slipped out so i tore the tranny apart not knowing what i was doing i had never worked on a tranny bigger than a dirtbike well heres some pictures

heres the way its suppose to be



well it turns out if you dont have a least a axle stub or even a screwdriver in it they have a chance of slipping out like this






so i was bummed for the rest of the day but as i was falling asleep last night i thought that this is actually a good thing because now i have a hollow shell of a transmission (very light now) to help me make mounts when i go to swap engines



as for the ignition system since i went distributor-less running wasted spark i had to buy a megasquirt i went with the ms2 diy kit





now an under the skirt view



now with the megasquirt i was going to need a fuse box but didn't want to spend any money so i 3d printed one!



i also 3d printed an ica adaptor the i made in google sketchup (also fusebox make in sketchup) i couldn't find the pinout of the kia iac anywhere on line but i had a dodge one that i had laying around that i knew the pinout for so 3d printer to the rescue (all parts made from abs plastic)



also since im using an 89 carbed festi i was going to need a fuel pump and regulator ebay to the rescue now lol






now for some random pictures

im using a ford 6 wire maf sensor (anyone know how much boost they are good up to)



heres the welder thats going to be doing all the work




also this is me using the input shaft of the now broken transmission as a clutch alignment tool




p.s. if my grammar or spelling is bad oh well your just here for the pictures anyway

[monkeykiller1996]

oh and i should have i video of the engine running on the stand by the end of the week

[gergorian]

Looks like you are making some progress. You made some mistakes, but if you never make a mistake you'll never learn anything.

[bhearts]

cool work! Good luck with that engine swap

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[bhazard]

Why are you using a maf if you're running MS?

[Team Lightning]

He should have picked this up with the MegaSquirt. I have one for my MS

http://www.diyautotune.com/catalog/mapdaddy-bar-map-sensor-with-barometric-correction-p-117.html

[bhazard]

Yup map and iat is the way to go. No restriction in the intake.

[gergorian]

Not so much a restriction but it is easier to tune speed density, especially when you start boosting.

[monkeykiller1996]

i choose the maf because i read somewhere online that its easier to tune but its as simple as unpluging it and removing it i have a map sensor built into the ms and i also have an iat already wired up, also i think im going to call this ''Project Sleeping Kia'' i named the forum post name the way i did so its easier to find

[bhazard]

If you register tuner studio then you can run auto tune

[monkeykiller1996]

iv'e been thinking about buying the paid version of tuner studio is it worth is i think its only like 50 buck or something and i i made a video of it running but it was running real rough and really rich so ill post a better video later

[monkeykiller1996]

well i got some more stuff done today i got the day off because the place where i work lost power so i worked on the fuel delivery. originally the kia motor i used had a return-less fuel system i want/need a return so i had to modify the fuel rail luckily the fuel rail has a bung at the end of it





i took that out and added a barbed fitting and adapter for the high pressure side

[nitrofarm]

Steve what tranny are you using?

[gergorian]

iv'e been thinking about buying the paid version of tuner studio is it worth is i think its only like 50 buck or something and i i made a video of it running but it was running real rough and really rich so ill post a better video later

It is definitely worth it. My buddy and I used it on his 331 Stroker Mustang and it tuned it great. With a few tweaks it was purring like a kitten in about an hour.

[monkeykiller1996]

i going to use the stock kia tranny that comes on a 2000ish kia spectra not sure of exact model(5 speed)