Pommyvince's BF 323 KL ZE swap

[Pommyvince]

YEEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! no. 2

Took car for Certification today and after a four hour wait and enough coffee at Starbucks to keep me wired for a week.........it passed......well almost ! only fail point was the wiper blades ....can you f***ing believe it !!!! Must be the only thing I hadn't checked. Just have to wait 10 days to get the certification plate put on the car and I am all legal. Just to celebrate, I bought a vid camera...and some wiper blades....on the way home. Vid coming soon.

Anyone know if there is a taller 5th gear available as I'm pulling 3000 rpm at 100km/h ( just over 60mph) ???? Just to keep the fuel bill down lol. Pulls like a train though

[DeeAOne]

what trans are you running? sorry if its in the thread, i didnt look.

i was told the mazda 626 trans has one of the longest gear ratios of the g series trans. thats what im using.

[Pommyvince]

Trans is out of a '93 626 sport hatch. I'm using 205/55-15 tyres which are slightly smaller than the original 205/65-15 by about 5%. Speedo therefore reads 5% fast ( the original speedo with an adapted mechanical drive).

Certainly not over geared Could do with a taller 5th on the motorway to make it a bit more relaxed.

[DeeAOne]

so we have the same ratios then? mine is also out of a 93 sedan.

[Pommyvince]

It would seem so. Mine drives almost like a close ratio box with this amount of torque in a light car. Around town I can leave in 4th or top most of the time.

[DeeAOne]

well damn. i thought my rpms would be much lower than that. ill soon find out.

[nerd racing]

the 4cyl 626 or mx6 with the g-series trans has the wider 5th gear ratio. not too sure on the years I'm sure if you pm therieldeal he will tell you all you need to know.

[Mazda_Powered]

has to be from the 2.2 non turbo trans afaik...

[monoxidechild]

^
good to know. i assumed he was talking about the FS 4 cyl. lol

[Pommyvince]

Thx for that I'll do a bit of research on those gear ratios but I'll just be driving for a while as soon as I get the Certification plate on the car.

[Evilist]

Thx for that I'll do a bit of research on those gear ratios but I'll just be driving for a while as soon as I get the Certification plate on the car.

Awesome dude the first BF Mazda 323 powered by a KL-ZE in NZ :D and the first BF 323

good job man,

[Pommyvince]

Thx for that...... Certainly the first in NZ but if anyone else in the rest of the world knows of KL-ZE powered BF 323 I'd like to know, cheers. Must be one somewhere ....surely ????

[DeeAOne]

Mines DE, close enough? Lol

seriously, I think I'm one of the few in the states if any do this swap in the BF.

[Pommyvince]

Yours must be one of the first DE swaps into a BF as I couldn't find any info at all on KL swaps before I started mine. Loads on BG's lol

[DeeAOne]

Same here. That's why I had so much trouble. Lol