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What have you done to your Festiva today!?
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Sounds like this thread is off topic....I didn't do anything to my Festiva today, but I will-Greg
Euro-bprt...WORLDS FASTEST FESTIVA !!! 11.78@115.9
BP, G trans, Megasquirt/ 550cc inj. t3/t3 (tbird) Garrett, REAR TURBO!!!! AND AC!!!!
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Originally posted by greywolf200 View PostLet it go man, Damkid can't help being a jerk....
1988 323 Station Wagon - KLG4 swapped
1988 323 GT - B6T Powered
2008 Ford Escape - Rollover Survivor
1990 Festiva - First Ever Completed KLZE swap (SOLD)
If no one from the future stops you from doing it, how bad of a decision can it really be?
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Laughed at the Chris/Gary drama
Then I picked my FE head up from the machine shop. Uuuuugh, labor was only a couple C-notes short of a new one from Kia. Oh well it was still cheaper and now I've got a tiny bit higher CR.
Also, despite having a longitudinal layout and a much bigger engine bay, pulling the head is significantly harder than in a Festiva. The heater pipe runs across the intake side on the Sportage F-block instead of the exhaust side (which like the B is wiiiiide open) and they piled the battery, charcoal can, washer reservoir and main fusebox all into a somewhat small area, which also happens to be the area my arm needs to occupy to get at the lower intake bolts. And access to those are blocked by that heater pipe which is held on by, you guessed it, the very same intake bolts.
At least I'll know my way around this engine really well when I go to pile it into the Festy.
A neat thing I didn't know, these things use the same cam for dizzyless and dizzy ignition, they just get use the pin that would have spun the rotor as a tone ring for the CPS pickup. Every bit as smart and cheap as a Japanese design reverse-engineered by Koreans should be.Last edited by Tommychu; 04-29-2014, 07:56 PM.
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^Even the Japs used that design. The Miata uses a CAS in the dizzy hole. It outs the same CAS signal as the EFI Festiva dizzy plus another one for the ECU to pick which coil to fire.
EDIT: Sorry. Different design. I assumed.Last edited by sketchman; 04-29-2014, 08:35 PM.Any difference that makes no difference is no difference.
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Yeah this thing is just a plastic plate the same size as a Mazda dizzy with a fingertip-sized nub in it for the pickup, and two wires coming out. The holes aren't slotted like DIS Miata sensor either, since timing is 100% computer controlled anyway.Last edited by Tommychu; 04-29-2014, 08:48 PM.
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Tuned up Shadow today. New spark plugs, wires, cap, and rotor. It has been stalling out a lot lately & running to low on the idle. It runs like a champ again.
I also re-wired the headlight wire. My Headlights were turning off on there own while I was driving.1993 Ford Festiva L blue 170,000 miles
1990 Ford Festiva L Plus white 190,000 Auto, currently waiting to have another engine put in.
1995 Ford F150 XLT black 203,000 miles
2002 Honda CRV silver 180,000 miles
2003 Toyota Rav4 Sport black 94,000 miles
2008 Sym Rv250 dark grey 30,000 miles. My scooter.
1989 Ford Festiva LX black 233,000 miles. Sold to my better half's son.
Mike
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I went to a local junkyard here in El Paso and got an 89 festiva grill, an aspire rear axle, newer valve cover and fuel pressure regulator for my BP and a few other odds and ends plus the speedometer housing I needed for my 82 toyota cressida 20140503_120123.jpg 20140503_110629.jpg
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Originally posted by bravekozak View PostWhat do you mean rewired the headlight wire? My headlight connector tab broke, so I popped the terminals out of a junkyard connector and my bad one, Dremel wire wheeled them, and popped them back in.
I hope you didn't cut the wire.
Well I put in a better connection with an inline fuse the other day.
Sorry I didn't explain that.1993 Ford Festiva L blue 170,000 miles
1990 Ford Festiva L Plus white 190,000 Auto, currently waiting to have another engine put in.
1995 Ford F150 XLT black 203,000 miles
2002 Honda CRV silver 180,000 miles
2003 Toyota Rav4 Sport black 94,000 miles
2008 Sym Rv250 dark grey 30,000 miles. My scooter.
1989 Ford Festiva LX black 233,000 miles. Sold to my better half's son.
Mike
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