Twin charged bp

[Advancedynamix]

Just wanted to add a little note.
Building a FWD drag car is a pretty simple formula, and a Festiva is about as perfect of a car to start with as anything. It's lighter than A CRX and we all know a CRX can lay down a 10 sec quarter with the right grocery list of junkyard mods and a good driver. The problem is that these cars are good for so much more and to build a dedicated festiva to only have fun for 1320ft is kind of pointless in the grand scheme of things. I think this is why we haven't seen anything in the 10 second field. You'll need a roll cage if you're running it at an NHRA sanctioned track and while your at it, you may as well just use the cage as a structure and get rid of half the metal in the car. Now you've got some serious time and money invested in a car that is uncomfortable and only really good at going straight for 10 seconds.
Drag racing is fun, and cheap until you get to the point of no return. Then it consumes just as much money and time as road racing. The NHRA knows that after 11.5 seconds, you are addicted and its only a matter of time until you're spending more money on alchyhawl and wrankle walls than you are on groceries and home maintenance. Before you know it, you're covered in tattoos and selling your children to buy a bigger race trailer. The garage is full of fiberglass bodies and drums of Nitro and you are missing work to travel the country with the top fuel circus. I've seen it happen a hundred times. This old shop is littered with dusty old wally statues and the crusty old souls that gave up everything for them. It all started the same way my friend…. "I'll beat that damn mustang if it takes everything I got". There will always be a faster mustang.

[bhazard]

That's why you have many many festivas to fill all the roles

[Advancedynamix]

That's why you have many many festivas to fill all the roles

Spoken like a true junkie. :p

[bhazard]

Haha in all actuality I really just want two right now. My BP-auto will be turbo'd and will have my Jim-built trans. Obviously it will be more of a straight-line car. Though I'd like to keep it reasonably comfortable and have a decent interior.

Then there will be a certain "top secret" festy for everything else (*coughawdpickupcoughcough*)

[ZephTheChef]

It's not an old Shelby. It's a new one. Coyote engine and tvs supercharger

I didn't realize those had the 5.0 vs the 5.8. He's got a ford racing whipple though, not the TVS.


While I agree, it normally would not take obscene amounts of power to beat one in a Festiva, what some of you guys probably don't realize not knowing Bryan personally, is that he is every bit of 340lbs of muscle, which would add 10% to the weight of a Festiva over your average 170-lb dude. 200hp or even 250 is probably not gonna cut it.

[bhearts]

I didn't realize those had the 5.0 vs the 5.8. He's got a ford racing whipple though, not the TVS.


While I agree, it normally would not take obscene amounts of power to beat one in a Festiva, what some of you guys probably don't realize not knowing Bryan personally, is that he is every bit of 340lbs of muscle, which would add 10% to the weight of a Festiva over your average 170-lb dude. 200hp or even 250 is probably not gonna cut it.

here is proof. Gosh I love festivas though. Best car ever made

[Gomez]

Greg said once that 40# in a Festiva is a tenth. If he's a buck forty, 200 more lbs is half a second. That alone would take Gregs car back into the 12's at best. So working from a car that hasn't been there yet is a whole different story. I like seeing people go for the challenge whatever the goal or whatever the outcome. It's the fight that is fun. That's why FESTIVA !!!!! ftw

If there was a way to put all that brute in front of the wheels. Traction!!!!

[bhazard]

Greg's like 80 lbs soaked. That's why he goes fast.

[Gomez]

compared to me Brad, you are 80 lbs soaked. That's why you go fast

[Damkid]

I like seeing people go for the challenge whatever the goal or whatever the outcome. It's the fight that is fun.

Best quote I've heard in a long time!!

[Advancedynamix]

340lbs of driver is substantial in a Festy. You may want to hire Greg to race the car.

[jason_]

That blows into the turbo with a roots style blower and a diverter/bypass valve, exactly as I stated. I wouldn't take advice on supercharging from VW, need I bring up the G-lader?
This system would work better with a centrifugal charger for our cars. VW has a multimillion dollar engineering budget to get the tuning correct on that to make it a boring fuel efficient family car engine.

Sorry to jump into this and off topic. But I just went Dpf delete and Malone tune stage 2, and holy sheet, . It's far from a family car now. Smokes tires through 3rd every time. I can tease breaking them loose without clutch, just pour more fuel and once boost gets up there it comes to life.



Extremely impressive once you let exhaust escape and tell ecm to dump more juice. No other mods.

Mileage went up since it doesn't shoot fuel on exhaust stroke to encourage regens.

[Advancedynamix]

Sorry to jump into this and off topic. But I just went Dpf delete and Malone tune stage 2, and holy sheet, . It's far from a family car now. Smokes tires through 3rd every time. I can tease breaking them loose without clutch, just pour more fuel and once boost gets up there it comes to life.



Extremely impressive once you let exhaust escape and tell ecm to dump more juice. No other mods.

Mileage went up since it doesn't shoot fuel on exhaust stroke to encourage regens.

Wheel spin is not fast. Do you have a golf or polo?

[jason_]

Better then what it was. $400 for the pipe with 4 bungs in it that look like a headache, and 500 got flash. Or $4k for the filter that needed to be replaced.

I took the more fun and cheaper route.

Wagon. Same money more car.

[Advancedynamix]

$4k filter? Do you mean the catalytic converter?