My first engine swap build thread

[freshtiva]

^ Thanks, I painted all the panels to match. Im happy with the way they turned out.

[freshtiva]

I wish you guys could drive this car. I been taking it to work and doing some minor tweaking on stuff. It seems to be getting better all the time. Im really liking it now. I bought a blue grill and have also found a blue hood and hatch to swap from FFC members. Didnt trust my alignment so I took it to an alignment shop. It was off some. It will track hands off with the speedo buried now. Had a air whistle around the drivers door. Grabbed the top of the window frame with the window down and bent it in slightly and fixed that problem. Before you could see a gap, not now. Its turning out better than expected, wish you could drive it. It makes all the effort worth while. Once I swap out the body parts I think its done except for the minor upgrades/improvements I find here and there. Ill drive it to the next meet I attend if I can find an insurance company that will carry six festivas on a policy. Progressive wont.

I went to get my car Freshtiva inspected yesterday( for its 17th and 18th year) and pulling out of the inspection bay ahead of me was a festiva. The driver was the guy who caught this project car on fire. I was going to go talk to him but after remembering all the problems he caused me with this car I really didnt feel like it. Some pics of his attemped wire splice repair below

[Evan80]

Wow that's some truly heinous work there. How many hours did it take for you to correct it?

[freshtiva]

Just the wire harness swap took me most of a day, probably a good eight hours working by myself.

Here is the link to the wire harness swap. The wire harness swap was just the beginning to correcting the damage from the fire. Everything on the drivers side of the engine bay had to be replaced.

http://www.fordfestiva.com/forums/showthread.php?t=18898&highlight=wire+harness+swap

[Evan80]

Wow I definitely missed that thread. You must be extremely proud of yourself what with resurrecting/heavy modding your nice festie, it looks like all the work was top notch and it's probably a nice peppy daily driver. Kudos to you Fresh, Kudos.

[ejp2fast]

^^^^buncha wires!!! AHHH!

[freshtiva]

Wow I definitely missed that thread. You must be extremely proud of yourself what with resurrecting/heavy modding your nice festie, it looks like all the work was top notch and it's probably a nice peppy daily driver. Kudos to you Fresh, Kudos.

Thanks evan !! I showed the car to a couple of my nonfestiva buddies and the usual response is ...."huh " No appreciation at all !! Its good to have festiva buds !

[Biglay5150]

^^^Yes it is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sasquatch]

Thanks evan !! I showed the car to a couple of my nonfestiva buddies and the usual response is ...."huh " No appreciation at all !! Its good to have festiva buds !

thats what i get ALL the time.... huh...

its great to have festiva buds!

[Damkid]

thats what i get ALL the time.... huh...

its great to have festiva buds!

me too, the only reason i get any respect with my festiva is because its turbo'd

[sasquatch]

me too, the only reason i get any respect with my festiva is because its turbo'd

the only thing that people notice about mine is the light rack lol... maby when i can beat my friend in a burn-out then it will get some respect and thats a hard thing to do... a b6t with lots of mods should do it

[Biglay5150]

Even when its fast you wont get any respect. I was downtown the other night hanging out with a bunch of Honda guys and a friend pulled up in another Festiva. I hear someone in the croud say "whats with all the stuped Festivas" I just laughed.

[festivaWES]

^^ Not true. Just by me bringing Red to work i managed to get three people into festivas....2 of them already purchasing multiple festivas.

Be glad festivas are different, and not your cookie-cutter honduh. I'll give more respect to a person with a b6 festiva over any swapped honda d-b-k series.

[eurotiva]

^^^ true to that!! I get a little respect in mine.

[Biglay5150]

Ya once you show them whats up they might give a little respect but most just see a stupid Festiva. Not that I realy care what they see.