I can look for you. Cant promise anything though. Let me test mine first to make sure it will work. Haha yea i considered waiting for the wire harness before i put the engine in, but i wanted to get it over with. I can still put the wire harness in with the engine in. I will just have to take my time and thread it through all the stuff. Not too hard, but annoying yes.
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if you had the wiring harness already, would you still wait till the engine was in or you would install the harness first? I'm asking because I am going to do the swap, but don't know much about the procedure... so I will be asking you for input.
I hope you don't mind.
but do look for a MAF if you can... I'm definitely gonna need one so if you could find a working one for about the same price I'll buy it from you.
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It is better to put the harness in first. It is alot easier to arrange it when you can sit in the engine bay.sigpicComment
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Well I broke down and ordered a 1.8/MT ecu with harness yesterday. I am getting it shipped to be here before friday, so this weekend ill be trying to start her up. hoepfully everything will go ok.sigpicComment
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Wow, good luck! How much did you pay for them both? I hope you don't mind me asking...Comment
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Around $225
for both. More than I wanted to, but i was so tired of screwing around with people I just had to bite the bullet. I wish I still had a digital video camera to record the first breath drawn by my BP, but oh well. Ill try to get an audio wave : )
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that's not a bad deal...
too bad you don't have a camera though
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You know that you can't use the 1.5 disty with that 1.8 harness....
Your gonna have to get a 1.8 disty...
The plug is different.
(I will see if I still have the kia one and do a pic of it.)Comment
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My engine came with one. : )Originally posted by bruce95fmlasigpicComment
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Hey guys, I am looking at a BP for sale at a local junkyard. It's from an AT car and what confuses me is the fact that car-part.com has separated the MT and AT engines. This makes me think that there is a difference between the two. Is that so (I doubt it)?Originally posted by OCD-SPEED
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Mazda Protege 3-98,1.8L,AT,200,200 ,200,200
I assume 200 is the compression? That should be pretty good, right?
I'm asking about the AT/MT because I want to swap the tranny on my protege and put a manual transmission in. I was wondering if it would make any difference whether I get a MT engine or an AT engine.
I plan on going to the place and checking it out tomorrow (later today actually). I'll buy the BP if it's around $300.Comment
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the only diffrence is an MT will come with a fly wheel and a AT will come with a drive plate. If you get one from an AT you will have to get a flywheel, thats all. But NO THREAD JACKINGsigpicComment
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ok, I'm very sorry...Originally posted by OCD-SPEEDComment
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well, my wire harness didnt come in on time so im gonna have to wait until next weekend to get her running. Im also going to order a downpipe for 1.8l to solve the exhaust problems. next weekend its on!sigpicComment
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This past weekend I got the downpipe in time and put it on. But the guy i got the wire harness from was supose to get it here by last friday and he sent it late so it didnt come until the 23rd. So once again i have to wait till this weekend. But i have everything now and baring any unforseen problems, the protege should be running this weekend. Oh yea, I found a 1.8L/MT wire harness from somewhere in tennesse. They are extremely rare and i cant believe i actually found one. I was on the phone with they guy and was explaining to him what i was doing, the whole 1.8l swap and tranny swap and i was talking to him about a automatic 1.8l harness would work and then he was said, "well ive got a 1.8l harness for an MT too if you want that one." so ofcourse i was like hell yeah!
Correct me if im wrong but when i get this done will this be the first BP swap in a 2nd gen using a Kia motor? Also will it be the first automatic to manual conversion in a second gen?sigpicComment
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why don't you email me at dbest1a@yahoo.com and then I can give you my phone number and you can give me a call and you can pick my brain for all the answers you need on the motor swapOriginally posted by Intruder
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