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[theonecalledtod]

hey everyone, my names todd, and im going to be the proud owner of a festiva soon, lol. I was looking for a cheaper car to mess with that everyone else doesn't mess with and landed on my girlfriends moms festiva.

The car has about 127k on it very little surface rust with a "locked" transmission (her moms boyfriend changed the oil and accidently drained the tranny and tried to drive it and it locked, idiot) Anyways at 175 bucks its hard to turn down. I have a few questions that i will be searching for, but any help is appreciated. My goals for the car are to run (hopefully) into 13's quarter mile, with a budget of 1500 total. What are popular swaps for the car (turbo only please thats where most of my experiance in cars is) with little to no modifications and what cars are those swaps found in? My aim is to simply pull one engine out, and drop it in with minimal cutting and welding needed. Also, whats a good tranny to get that will bolt up to the stock engine and hopefully the new engine.

Just a brief past, i've had an SRT-4 and 2 turbo hondas so im not new to the turbo game.

Thanks for the help, Todd

[thered56]

Wow! If I were him I personally would've taken it upon myself to put another tranny in. Oh well, then you wouldn't have acquired it eh?

Well, there are some popular turbo options available to you. I'm going with a B6T, which is capable of that kind of 1/4 mile. It is a turbocharged 1.6 DOHC Mazda engine. It will bolt to a Festiva 5-speed tranny with a Suzuki Swift clutch, or use a G25MR tranny. I think less is involved to make it fit with the Festiva tranny though, you can get motor mounts for it. Another popular swap is the BPT, a turbocharged 1.8. I don't know a great deal myself quite yet, but I think $1500 will be pushing it.

Congratulations on your new ride though, it's a great choice, given how incredibly light they are. Welcome and good luck!

[jglutz]

Welcome to the site!

[ejp2fast]

welcome!. here is a link to the fastest festivas

http://www.fordfestiva.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3586

[gtrfestivia]

what up

the 1.6 t engine is a very easy swap you chould get a engine cheap but you are going to rebuild it. the other swap that you can do is the one im doing which is 1.8 which you can get out of older escoet gt you can also tubro that motor. 1.8 install is harder tight fit.

[theonecalledtod]

the 1.6 turbo engine is in what year make and model (so i can check some junkyards) and whats a good site or 3 to look at for rebuild kits, parts, echaust manis, ect... Thanks for the welcomes

[jr.fester]

welcome... another fellow srt owner over here. although the festiva gives me more smiles... but it's not fast enough yet...

[festivaWES]

mercury capri xr2 90-94
mazda 323gt 86-89

For rebuilt kits and ebay vendor will do unless you have someone you normally deal with. Jisengine.com for me.

check out corksport.com for aftermarket items for the b6t.

[festivaWES]

By the way welcome to ff.com~!

Need pics of your new purchase, and edit or profile and put in a location. Maybe someone from the boards would be able to help out.

[packrat427]

Welcome to the site !!

If you need to search for certain things , just punch it in in the search button , it works pretty good and will bring up most everything associated .

Make sure you post pics of the purchase when you get it !!

We love pics

[MONSOON]

Welcome aboard. Theres quite a few guys here who've done some pretty awesome stuff to their Festivas and made run like raped apes. Like Packrat said Search is your best freind here. And theres ALOT of info to be found.

[theonecalledtod]

ok so correct me if im wrong, 1.6l engine is the B6 correct?? does not come stock turbo, but is easy to turbo. So ebay i search for b6 mazda 323 or something along those lines? Sorry fellas, trying to get everything in my head before i make any big moves, lol.

Todd

[91blufestiva]

B3=1.3L, stock festiva
B6=1.6L either sohc, or dohc
B6T=1.6L Turbo, dohc, came in mazda 323 gtx? and mercury capri xr2?
BP= 1.8L, sohc, or dohc, dohc came in mazda protege, and ford escort GT models
BPT=1.8L Turbo, dohc, I don't know what cars these came out of, but I know that none were produced in the U.S.

[festyxfi]

I've always wondered that basic info, thanks Josh!!..

[theonecalledtod]

thank you 91 blue, now I know exactly what to look for. So ebay part for a b6t rebuild, man im always preaching " dont ebay car part, theres a reason it's expensive and that because ebay normally sacrafices quality" but hey yall are the pros here :p

Todd