No, ECU's are different ECU of K8DE is the same like KLDE

i dont like your car mate.it looks so shittt.....why you did that to it?

Thomas, your opinion is fine, but the owner last posted nearly year ago, is not the point

his car, he likes it, thats what counts

no need

Should of gone to Specsavers

Thomas – saying something is shit is fine, if you back it up by saying why its so.

Perhaps a ‘WOW, don’t like that’ or ‘its not up my street’ of a comment

thomas14111983, Thankyou, im sure your 1.5 vehicle is amazing aswell Hate on looser.

Yeah spec savers would have worked a treat on the motorway! Reason why i wasnt looking at my instrument cluster is because it was a motorway, crusing... at 110kmph... had it been street driving i would have noticed long before.

People. really. Warriors

Anywhoo. Long time no post.

I still have my 323, im currently performing and engine swap.
Going from kfde to kfze type r motor.

sourced another hardtop which i pulled the motor from, now im in the process of swapping a few things over like gaskets etc. My astina is looking a bit sad atm... but she will be all sorted when new motor is in...













Also have a set of Yellowspeed coilovers that will be installed in the next couple of months.. as well as a set of Mazdaspeed MS-01F

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I didn't mean you should've gone to Specsavers, I mean't thomas14111983 who couldn't see what a nice BA you have.

nice work Duke. I see you got the MS-01's from Rup off astina gt.... he has some amazing stuff just wish he was closer to us lot over here lol

Yeppp, rupe has a lot of gems!

He's like a mazda specialised crack dealer!

hahaha indeed he is

This frikken rear mount is doing my head in though... cant get to the bolts to replace it...

really? are the bolts tightened from inside the car meaning all the dash needs to come out?

the rear engine mount? no.. its just real awkwardly wedges between the firewall and the steering rack... cant fit anything in there to loosen it free.

BillyBoy, Cheers mate.
Apologies for the assumption!

It would appear from removal of all my components, the contributor to the excessive water loss and overheating was caused by the radiator as it has splits all down the side tanks and a lot of residue from coolant. Not to worry as the hardtop has a new radiator in it though Which is excellent.

So!

Ordered some more bits for the astina...

Can tick off
rear engine mount
drivers side mount
front mount
steering tie rod ends (don't like to keep thread on removal apparently)

Out of both cars only the gearbox side mount was salvageable... everything else was showing signs of wear, cracking or just completely f'ed. (i.e rear mounts and drivers mount)

My garage looks like hiroshima in the 40's. Sht everywhere. Cant figure out how that happened... but it did!

Also struggling something fierce to get my old rear mount out of the bay... will have to rearrange my car stands.. looks like i need to drop the subframe to get to the bolts... agghhhh. Worst positioned engine mount ever...

Ill share some pics shortly will some general pictures/mess.

Some of the working area... suppose im lucky to have the space!

I love it mate!!!! Keep up the good work!!!! Looking forward for updates!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cheers! Appreciate it!

So today got the rear engine mount done! f*** yes... such a pain in the a**e!

Not long to go now...

Looking a bit fresher...

Painted rocker covers, cleaned intake, clean block, head and gearbox, redid rocker cover gaskets!

Rims arrive next week!

motor is looking really good and what rims have you bought?

The ms-01f's arrive next week

Ahhhh yes.... lol that was a silly comment by me lol

Haha all good. Got the motor in after work last night, mounted up. Need to start putting everything together again now...

So my shifter bush set arrived in the mail from Qford today.

Should be able to get everything together tonight, hopefully get it running, have all the bits and pieces to make her work, a mate coming round a bit later this arvo and hopefully all smiles!

Only issue with the whole thing is that the compressor for AC is different from the hardtop to my hatch, so the AC lines in the hatch dont match up and fit the new motor... rather then switch the compressor (because the on my astina was rooted) im going to just get the lines sorted when i eventually take the car to get a regas.

Left in the wake of the swap, ill need to get the guards rolled, car fully aligned, the car detailed, my tyres swapped, and some coilovers in the not too distant future till i can sit back with a bev and be happy!

really looking forward to seeing this all done

Me too mate, me too... so close

Just tried to crank it then, got a burble and a pop, but the battery died! argh!
Can taste victory

hahaha... well if the engine runs right you should be very happy with the performance upgrade from the DE

Its been a really slow week of progress, lots of hiccups but she runs, she's blended, and the last thing to do before wheel alignment is to change the drive shaft seal passenger side, as it was damaged in the process of removing the cv's from the hardtop.

anywhos, got some more things sorted, car currently looking like this... guards getting rolled on thursday... in dire need of it unless i feel like ripping my tyres/guards apart

Wow car is looking so great