'88 L Street/Track Build- Coilovers • B6ZE • Weber DCOE's • Widebody • Chopped Top •

[william]

Loolong good man! It's going to be super clean without the exta wiring of efi. Can't wait to see it finished.

[Festiva_Fred]

Excellent work! I love your build!

[theastronaut]

Loolong good man! It's going to be super clean without the exta wiring of efi. Can't wait to see it finished.

Excellent work! I love your build!

Thanks guys!! It's going to be awhile before I have time to finish it. We have a big project at work with a tight deadline so I've been staying late to get it done in time.


In the meantime, I bought a pretty clean '89 L with A/C and swapped the suspension from the '88 and have been dailying it. Bought it last Saturday around 2pm, stayed up til 1:30am swapping it, then took it to the Clemson autocross the next day.


As found, it was around back at a used car lot. Had been traded in at the Ford dealership and the car lot bought it from them.






Cleaned up.




Swapped.




Still on the paper tag... autocrossed it less than 24 hours after buying it lol.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUT1NjLx1RM

[Team Lightning]

Looks great John! Video looks good. How was the time?

[theastronaut]

I didn't get there early enough to walk the track so I was struggling with the course layout all day. I bumped the timing up after my second run which made it easier to overdrive the car, so that didn't help either. Fastest time of the day overall was 50.652, my fastest timed run was a 55.935 which put me slightly quicker than middle of the pack. I made two fun runs afterward (didn't count as a timed run) and ran a 54.752. I didn't grind flat spots on the knuckles like I did on my '88 so it doesn't have quite as much camber up front as it needs, but it was sticking pretty good anyways.

[william]

Man clean festivas must grow on trees down there!

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[theastronaut]

Not really, I just keep a constant check on Craigslist, Facebook, and offerup. Most are pretty beat.

[firebush357]

Over the past couple of years there seems to be quite a few clean ones coming out of Tampa area. There is where I got my White and Yellow cars.

[Thebrandonbeezy]

Did you end up getting the header working??

:edit:
I read through this thread last night at 2 am.. i retained the part where you bought a header, then forgot you got it on hahah

[theastronaut]

Did you end up getting the header working??

:edit:
I read through this thread last night at 2 am.. i retained the part where you bought a header, then forgot you got it on hahah

Yeah, its fitted and welded up. I cleaned up the weld splatter this weekend to prep if for ceramic coating. Found another slight issue... I test fit the header/flange back when I had the b6d pan on; one of the tubes sticking out of the B6t pan hits the collector flange so I'll remove the tube from the pan. I still need to modify the pipes that go under the pan.

[theastronaut]

I'm finishing up a big project at work this month, so I'm planning on getting started back on this thing to finish the swap after that.

[Thebrandonbeezy]

Ok so thats the accord header still?
Also will that clear the ac compressor?

[theastronaut]

Ok so thats the accord header still?
Also will that clear the ac compressor?

No, switched to a Probe/MX6 header to line up with the oil pan notch better. Clears the compressor, plenty of space between the two.

[Thebrandonbeezy]

perfect!
one more question, the b6d block has the oil feed for turbo like the b6t? also coolant?
guess thats 2 haha

i cant wait to see this running, got me wanting to do bike carbs on mine until i track down an e153

[theastronaut]

Yeah the blocks are identical. Oil pans are different. I wish I had done bike carbs instead of an Escort carb on my '89.