Finished swapping an Aspire B3 into a carby Festiva.... No gas, no start???

[Ray]

Now I want to hear from you that the sucker actually runs! I'm talking about the car, of course.
I have a lo-mile 97 Aspire engine sitting around waiting for the day I swap it into a Festy (which is an EFI) and there is all kinds of non-compatible stuff bolted on there that has to be dealt with in order to do this. You fellas did well to adapt to a carb car.

The whole process was a piece of cake, just time consuming! The Festiva engine had v-belt accessories on it, and the Aspire engine had flat belts on it. Instead of swapping the cams, rockers, valves and accessories over, we kept all of the Aspire accessories on it.

The only thing that posed a problem (other than lack of a mechanical fuel pump -- which you won't need to worry about with EFI to EFI) was the alternator wiring. The plugs were different. All that the alternator had was three wires, and we spliced them with the wiring that was in the Festiva within just a minute or two. Very simple.

Also had to keep the Festiva exhaust manifold, as the manifold has two pipes that provides heat to the carb to warm it up.

It started up first try after pouring gas in the carburetor.

Oh! And a/c. Going from Festiva a/c to Aspire a/c was far beyond my ability (and patience), and it never worked for more than 3 days at a time anyway, so I decided to take all of the a/c parts out. If anyone wants Festiva a/c parts, or an Aspire compressor, let me know!! :p




Going from efi to efi, though.... ugh. Going to a carburated car was simple, because there's really not many wires on the wiring harness. Didn't have to worry about a computer or anything. Can't say what it would be like going to a efi car.

[nitrofarm]

Now I want to hear from you that the sucker actually runs! I'm talking about the car, of course.
I have a lo-mile 97 Aspire engine sitting around waiting for the day I swap it into a Festy (which is an EFI) and there is all kinds of non-compatible stuff bolted on there that has to be dealt with in order to do this. You fellas did well to adapt to a carb car.

Bert this is a piece o cake.We just did this swap @ 3 weeks ago on my sons Festy. We took the extra time to reseal the intire motor since we had it out. In a nutshell you are using the Festy intake on the aspire engine its that simple. Use the Aspire alt & belts,no wiring change. Use the Aspire Header with the Aspire down pipe.My son said he noticed a slight gain in power with the Aspire setup.

[georgeb]

If you're not sure which of the remaining 2 hoses (ruling out the one that goes to carb) is the pressure side, stick them in a can and turn on the pump. If still no gas, line is clogged.