And so it begins.....

[94greenpro]

So Mon morning im on my way to go pick up my escort Gt parts car going to be doing the BP swap into my protege and also rebuilding the GT brakes for the protege. will be ripping it apart this week and hopefully have the shell gone by wed/thur, using some misc parts to make my old protege that i smashed road worthy again so i can drive it for winter I haven't posted much here lately becasue of a busy summer, in sept i smashed my first one and the following day i purchased another green 94 DX from NEVADA with 117 XXX miles and 2500 in new parts for a grand ( rubbing it in to northern guys) and switched everything over. In my opinion it was good luck to have smashed my old one lol. Anyways this will be my project thread i guess, so heres my pro now, will have picks of EGT Mon

[94greenpro]

Well got the Gt and started ripping into it, got most the front sheetmetal off and the seats and belts out (need that stuff to fix winter beater) tomoro night i should have the front subframe out aswell as the rear and gas tank.



Did a compression test and got 120-123-122-120 dry and wet was 170-172-173-170, so i guess the rings are pretty worn so my plan is to use the SOHC block,crank, and rods out of my car now because it only has 180 XX miles and runs great. Then get some miata pistons and top it off with the DOHC head obviously, What do you guys think?

[miK3Pro]

really clean man, it reminds me of how my pro when i first got it and b4 i crashed mines.....good luck w/ the swap...

[Turpro]

Please say you're swapping the rims over as well

[therieldeal]

i dont think sohc rods will fit dohc pistons, the wrist pin is a different style

[Krazyman]

Hell Tur i was thinkin about doing that with my EGT rims till i get better ones... and then use them as winters... jsut not black

Looks like you've got yourself a nice project... Can't wait to hear how it goes Good Luck

[94greenpro]

i dont think sohc rods will fit dohc pistons, the wrist pin is a different style

right forgot about that, the dohc rods do fit the soch crank though right. and the EGT rims will be used as track wheels, have 15x7 DR16's for daily

[jumpncrash]

you can always use the SOHC crank too though, its 4 kilos lighter than the DOHC crank. Depends on how much power you want to put out, but either way I think the cranks were never a weak point on these engines.

Nick

[94greenpro]

i am using the sohc crank..

[FazdaBoy4ever]

dont worry about those compression numbers. that looks like a VERY strong engine to me... your supposed to do the compression test on at the very least a warm engine so all the clearances can be filled with the expanding metal. the fact they are all so close in compression is a good sign! Im not saying there are no problems with it but my money would be on the fact you wont be dissatisfied with it!

I just did a compression test on an 04 civic in my class and it was pulling 135 psi cold on a motor with no more than like 5k miles on it.

[mx-3_4evr]

cool. So are you going turbo or N/A?

[94greenpro]

Will be N/A for now, gotta sort out my parts and get my winter car together then when i have everything organized i will finalize what im doing with the motor, most likely sohc crank miata pistons ect. i have all winter ( till like April) so i got time to do it right. today i got the escort stripped completely, took 9 hours total





escorts goin to scrap tomorow. going to where my smashed car is tomorow after school to put struts, headlights, and tank from escort in to try and drive it home and fix it. Then after thats all together the project car is comming into the garage for the winter and getting stripped wish me luck, will have update tomorow if i get the winter car home

[bomdoutscort]

to bad you didn't keep the escort its pretty clean and rare to have one like that.

[bomdoutscort]

does it have power windows? if so you should take them out of the doors along with the door panels and sell them.

[94greenpro]

no power windows, car is rotted like crazy, i can barely jack it up lol