I was tempted today..
 

I saw a totally beat Ford festiva for $500 today. Ever since I have not been able to stop thinking about it completely gutted with a BP swap, a big turbo and fat front tires to own the drag strip with a total low buck beater. I read somewhere that the B6/BP is an easy swap.

Only if I had the room...

that's tempting. I used to want one soooooo bad when I was a kid.

You might as well just drive it backwards down the track because it will never hook up. Unless you want to sit on the engine with some cinder blocks in your lap.

Sounds like a GRM2008 car. You just need to find the GTX AWD donor :eek5:

never thought about that. Really does not matter, though, 'cuz I'd have it mostly torn down by now if I had garage space.

or you could go completely ghetto-fab and put a motorcycle motor in the back and make it rwd. :)

there are pics of a guy with a CRX and a rear mounted 66-67 Olds Toronado 425 motor and transaxle floating around. he drives it to the track on the stock F/F powerplant, and still gets 30 mpg. good stuff.

I want to see that.

I remember a yugo coming to an autox here a few years ago... v6/8 in the back and a 4g63 (or chrysler 2.0T) or something in the front. Thing was FAST... then it blew an axle through the radiators and disgorged itself in the pit out area ;p

are you serious, who has that kind of time and money to do all that...but it'd be pretty cool, i love yugos

Damnit, now you have given me a reason to buy the thing.

Car - $500
Escort BP from JY $3-$500
EBAY clutch $200
75 Shot of N20 $300-400
Rustoleum Paint+wetsand $40
Miata alloys Free
Cinder blocks free
gut the hell out of it free

- whatever I can sell

And there is still wiggle room left for suspension, or tires, whatever.

Damn, I need more room, Baaad.

All I know is I gots to get out off the scion xB I owe money on. Cruising $500 hot rod beaters I can flip every 6mo gives me a woody.

If I remember the Escort 1.8 is not a direct drop in. I think the frame needs some minor cutting for the lower pulley. The intake manifold also hits the fire wall, nothing a BFH won't fix.

I was going to do the GTX turbo swap back in the day. I ended up buying an MX3 instead, but never finished it. I did put it in an Escort GT though.

http://www.clubprotege.com/wil/tech/...ineswapfaq.htm

I too have considered this swap... and still plan to do it if I find a sweet deal on a clean 5-speed festiva/323. The swap is easy as hell (add 3 wires, clearance two places with a BFH, swap ECUs). You can use the stock tranny, clutch, and mounts.

Supposedly you can install a cage and cut out every piece of metal you can reach with a sawzall/grinder and get them down to about 1500 lbs. At that weight the car will stick like shit on a work boot.

kind of like the opel hatchbacks at disneyworld? (mgm studies i believe)

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