My KLZE Ford Festiva build thread

[Mazda_Powered]

this should be interesting!!! if i had gas money (car is fixed tho!) i'd come down haha.

[Damkid]

I know the feeling lol i'm flat broke til payday next tuesday lol

So i pulled the tranny back out (yet again) and i also pulled the clutch cable out so i can take them to work to finish making my bracket and i love the interchangability of mazda parts, the probe tranny doesn't use a cable but it still has the mounting holes for the cable to bolt onto lol



And this is roughly where my bracket will get mounted, but i need to know where the starter will be in that area since i don't want my bracket to interefere with it so i beleive there's a starter at my work but if anyone has a pic to post please do

[DeeAOne]

does that help at all? even though its sideways.

[Damkid]

if you could take a pic with the tranny sitting the way it is and point the camera straight down at the tranny that would help a lot! it looks like i'll have lots of room for my little bracket though :lol:

[DeeAOne]

[me19875]

this thread is so awesomesauce!

[Mazda_Powered]

any luck?

[nezwick]

Holy hell man. This is awesome! Keep up the good work. Sub'n!

[Damkid]

any luck?

I haven't had a chance to build the bracket yet, last night my laptop crashed on me and long story short it really pissed me off and i think its ****ed so right after work i went out and bought another computer, tomorrow i'll either build the bracket or bring the ZE home

Holy hell man. This is awesome! Keep up the good work. Sub'n!

Thanks!

[Damkid]

Well i got my bracket made up today and here's how it looks, as far as i can tell it should work pretty good but i won't know for sure until i get a clutch installed with everything in the engine bay



And on another note i think i know what rad i will be using, a 97' Jeep cherokee rad it 12" x 36" and i think it'll fit quite nicely

[DeeAOne]

awesome! definitely copying that design. lol

[monoxidechild]

so crazy, yet so simple. hopefully it will have as much throw as it needs. looks great though. thats some straight mcgyver ****! lol

[Damkid]

awesome! definitely copying that design. lol

No problem there lol the hinge piece i made, i can make another one easy enough if you want

so crazy, yet so simple. hopefully it will have as much throw as it needs. looks great though. thats some straight mcgyver ****! lol

lol thank you, the whole time i was building it i was watching the amount of throw it will need, if you notice in the pic the adjuster on the cable is at the end so i can tighten it up to make sure it has enough throw i had the clutch lever as far in as it would go so it's got lot of adjustment

And here's a couple more pics i just took, i unbolted it so i can paint it and it drying now

[Mazda_Powered]

wow man, that looks great! good job!

[Damkid]

Thanks man! it should be durable enough to never give me any troubles