Freds FE3 into the ute swap DONT POST HERE.

[fredio54]

http://www.mx6.com/forums/2015927-post129.html (Freds FE3 into the ute swap COMMENTS THREAD.)

or

http://www.mx6.com/forums/fe-dohc/18...-thread-9.html (Freds FE3 into the ute swap COMMENTS THREAD.)

[fredio54]

Bought new stuff for the ute today :-)

Bump lol.

Less than a year to go now!

[fredio54]

I now own a van :-)










Why the hell do you own a van fred... they asked.

Well, it comes with 5 stud diff and front hubs which means cheap n easy 5 stud conversion and disk brakes for fred for the ute. The ute will stop as well as it goes :-) Hooray for that!

Fred.

[fredio54]

May I present a man well known in his parts, legend in his own time, and never given enough credit, em_knaps :

YouTube - MVI 0947

ROFL, I achieved a burnout from 11,000 miles :-)

Excellent.

Fred.

[fredio54]

Mint :-)

[fredio54]

Mazda Ford Freda 1995, XL-T normal top Modification (used, imported, new): pics, specs, performance

Check out the engine in that! :-)

Still, it would be an utterly stupid swap to do, waayyyy too heavy, way too small an engine for a big car.

Fred.

[fredio54]

I need to ditch those corolla arms :

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f3...4/100_4434.jpg
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f3...4/100_4435.jpg

I filled my ute mounts with windscreen urethane and it does make a big difference to stiffness, however it does not make them any stronger. What happens if you drive the car hard is that LHS (drivers side for you yanks) side of the engine tries to lift up under hard accel and eventually succeeds by ripping the rubber in half. There is no good solution to this bar replacing the mounts with a different design.

Here are some pics :












Should be pretty easy to fab up something similar. Key point is that they are retained by steel, so the rubber can wear out and your engine won't come out through your bonnet like it will with the stockers (or even mazdaspeed miata ones).

I broke 3 ute mounts with 80hp and one skyline mount with 150hp. Hence the 400hp ute is reinforced, but the corolla arms I used are heavy and ugly and in the way. They need to go and this is the solution.

Fred.

[chief tool]

Originally Posted by fredio54

Mazda Ford Freda 1995, XL-T normal top Modification (used, imported, new): pics, specs, performance

Check out the engine in that! :-)

Still, it would be an utterly stupid swap to do, waayyyy too heavy, way too small an engine for a big car.

Fred.

It'll be a SOHC FE like all the commercial vehicles, do you know if its the fuel injected version or not ?

[fredio54]

of course it's sohc :-p but the bell housing would make it all easy and the mounts would be right. It has to be injected, the carby ones would never make 105hp without becoming dogs down low. In fact "Fuel system Electronic fuel injection pump" - yep, injected. in fact, it's a 12v variant "Engine type їеОдДѕОу4µ¤ЕыOHC12ҐРҐлҐЦ"

Ps, do you know where the comments thread is? ;-)

Having a dozey morning? A bit hung over perhaps? lol

Fred.

[fredio54]

I don't have this in my possession yet, but these should be shipped to NZ at some point in the nearish future. The will allow me more room to use a larger filter and/or adapters and what have you for oil cooling if I end up needing it.









As it stands I can't fit a ryco Z150 in there because the steering shaft is too close with the bigger OEM oil cooler/heat exchanger. The Z150 (SA fram/filpro ph2979a) is standard fitment on another F engine with exactly the same journal sizing and oil pump setup and thus perfect for this application according to both the OEM and myself.





I had enough trouble getting a Z148 (not Z148x which is small and [shizzle]ty) on there as it's fairly tight even with at 120mm long, let alone the nice big 150x80 unit.

That will be arriving in the same box with the cam gears :-) I can't wait!

Fred.

[fredio54]

My van has been at it again...

YouTube - Freds Freda fries

How irresponsible of me!

Fred.

[fredio54]

Flight is booked, I'm coming home!

[mjreissig]

awesome fred!!! I bet you miss doing burnouts in your ute.

[fredio54]

Tonight a bit of history was made that could influence the future of this project (top secret for now). Additionally, I rebooked my ticket to stay in the USA for another week. For those that didn't know I was here in the USA, I'm still heading down the east coast (Madison Wisconsin right now) and will spend a little time in LA before leaving, maybe SD too.

Tomorrow will be exactly a month before I leave the US and just a little more till I arrive home to start work on poluting the sky with thick white smoke. Yippee, this day has taken a long time to come, as has the one in a month.

Fred.

[monoxidechild]

glad to hear everything is still going ok. your only at your half way point of your adventure now. was a pleasure to meet you fred.