Sock's RWD Mazda 323 - The Project Thread
I figured since my other thread was stickied for the original BP swap into my 323 shell, it'd be fitting to make a separate thread to keep things properly sorted.
First off, the car in question is my 1991 Mazda 323 that was purchased for $500 with a running B6 and air-conditioning. The shell was clean and the engine/air-con was stripped out for a bare bones BP swap.
I kept the original F-series, stripped out the sound deadening (which filled the car with sand.. oh, should of sealed those up at the time), put a gel-cell thrown in the rear of the hatch, and then installed a BP from a 1995 Ford Escort GT. The engine came with the factory tubular header and a 4wire TPS. All this stuff made for a great daily driver. Until I started body work and got carried away while still trying to drive it to work.
Then a bunch of sitting on jack-stands while I tried to keep working on the body work. Then stuff happened where I bought a broken Subaru I intended to use for a daily driver (ANOTHER project, great) so the 323 became sort of a back burner project.
Fast forward to this year. Since I didn't need it to be FWD anymore (daily driver for winter), my ideas went wild and I bought a donor this project.
The 1985 Corolla GTS was rotted beyond use and the title was screwed. I sold my stock BP swap and it paid for the donor.
So this is basically the direction the project is heading.
And the donor was cut up and the suspension areas saved for mock-ups.
That brings us to today, where I started sand-blasting the Corolla strut towers in case I want to use a section of them for the swap.
First off, the car in question is my 1991 Mazda 323 that was purchased for $500 with a running B6 and air-conditioning. The shell was clean and the engine/air-con was stripped out for a bare bones BP swap.
I kept the original F-series, stripped out the sound deadening (which filled the car with sand.. oh, should of sealed those up at the time), put a gel-cell thrown in the rear of the hatch, and then installed a BP from a 1995 Ford Escort GT. The engine came with the factory tubular header and a 4wire TPS. All this stuff made for a great daily driver. Until I started body work and got carried away while still trying to drive it to work.
Then a bunch of sitting on jack-stands while I tried to keep working on the body work. Then stuff happened where I bought a broken Subaru I intended to use for a daily driver (ANOTHER project, great) so the 323 became sort of a back burner project.
Fast forward to this year. Since I didn't need it to be FWD anymore (daily driver for winter), my ideas went wild and I bought a donor this project.
The 1985 Corolla GTS was rotted beyond use and the title was screwed. I sold my stock BP swap and it paid for the donor.
So this is basically the direction the project is heading.
And the donor was cut up and the suspension areas saved for mock-ups.
That brings us to today, where I started sand-blasting the Corolla strut towers in case I want to use a section of them for the swap.
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