lil more power

[grantjp]

Jus curious, new to the festy world, I gotta 91 L mod fully stock. What would be the easiest first thing I could do to enhance my existing engine. 170,000 miles NO problems. Should I even worry?
All I'm doing now is paint job ( pics soon) and need some audio help.

[Damkid]

Majority of the people (myself included) will tell you that swapping the engine will get your more power for a lot less money then upgrading the stock B3

[Gomez]

What kind of audio help are you looking for?

[bhearts]

motor swap!

[Bert]

If the engine is running well and you are already blessed with a manual tranny version then I'd suggest leaving it alone while gradually scoping around for some version of an EFI B6 engine to drop in there. They range from 84 horsepower 8 valve (easiest swap) all the way to OEM 140 hp with twin cam and from 5500 redline to 7500. You can go B8 versions but then the motor starts taking up a good chunk of useable space under the hood.

[grantjp]

All four speakers were shot
Put four new in.
Factory radio turns on changes stations but no sound, only a slight pop when I switch on the ignition.
Try to keep it in before throwin more money for a CD player. I don't even listen to CDs

[grantjp]

Motor runs top notch and its had a four speed put in by previous owners.
You can't even hardly hear it running.
Only thing I thought was a few dents above rear tires so I tried popin them out but along the way discovered the whole dagum car is bondo! So paint job taken me a lil further than I wanted to go.
So I guess IMA leave the motor alone for now.

[TominMO]

All four speakers were shot
Put four new in.
Factory radio turns on changes stations but no sound, only a slight pop when I switch on the ignition.
Try to keep it in before throwin more money for a CD player. I don't even listen to CDs

I'm thinking the speakers are wired backwards.

[grantjp]

I'm on vacation now but IMA try to switch wire

[bhearts]

Speaker polarity is only for a reference

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[Gomez]

Speaker polarity IS VERY IMPORTANT for sound quality, not just for reference. BUT Wrong polarity will not make funny noises. If a speaker is in reverse polarity (i.e. + wire hooked to - and the - wire hooked to +) it will play 180* out of phase to any speaker that is wired properly. This will effectively cancel out most, if not all, low frequency tunes. Higher frequency notes aren't effected in the same way and are not as noticeable to most people.

I would pull the radio and check the plugs to make sure all is connected good, but it sounds to me like the radio is fried.

[F3BZ]

a loaded question. but i'm going to say if you can find a hotter cam. that's usually a bolt-on that you can actually feel a difference. but then that starts the whole process of headers, exhaust, muffler, CAI, etc.

[wisconstiva]

one thing you can do is exhaust but you pretty much have to do it all custom yourself another trick that me and my brother have did is finding a 2.2 mazda or ford vein flow meter and swapping the festivas into the bigger meter theres a tiny bit of sodering u have to do but that makes i possible to put a cone filter adapter on and you get more air flow via the bigger vein flow meter and the cone filter.I suppose you could use any ford or mazda meter also

[wisconstiva]

I should have specified you take the internals from the festivas vein flow meter and put them in the larger vein flow meter,its just a chip board inside

[bhearts]

That sounds like a terrible amount of work for 2hp. Id think that running solid aluminum intake pipe to the vaf would be more effective. That stock intake piece has ridges which isn't any different than using a wrinkle bent exhaust pipe instead of mandrel bend

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