Festiva progression thread

[sodikartracer]

Lane, IMO you have the best looking festiva on here i love it!

[lanemeyer14]

Hey there lane...
I just got me sum of the daisy on my kar...was wonderin how u painted yurs? Interested in painting mine for $$$ or trade yurs for mine n some $ for you to do the purple....let me kno

Sending you a PM now...

Car looks awesome. Maybe this sounds ricer or somethin', but I saw some carbon-fiber look automotive tape that maybe you could put on your hood and fool people. Thought about doin' it with mine, but if time is money, I'm flat broke.

Haha, I'm diggin the flat black look of the hood now. The only reason I didn't paint the hood green too is because I went in on the group buy of fiberglass/carbon fiber hoods from FestivaWes, and I'll paint that one green.

[DriverOne]

Car looks awesome. Maybe this sounds ricer or somethin', but I saw some carbon-fiber look automotive tape that maybe you could put on your hood and fool people. Thought about doin' it with mine, but if time is money, I'm flat broke.

[KR3AM]

Hey there lane...
I just got me sum of the daisy on my kar...was wonderin how u painted yurs? Interested in painting mine for $$$ or trade yurs for mine n some $ for you to do the purple....let me kno

[CHills]

drool Thank you! drool

Awww, I can't wait to get a new windshield.

Looks Awesome.

[V8Festiva]

Just for you CHills....Couple of quick pics to show off that nice new windshield!


On a side note, I'm thinking of painting the bronze part of my wheels purple....think it will make them pop a little more, but mainly because the Hulk had purple pants!

Lane,

Hope you have this car over at Will's at Thanksgiving.

Dean

[lanemeyer14]

Let's see the new Shield!

Just for you CHills....Couple of quick pics to show off that nice new windshield!


On a side note, I'm thinking of painting the bronze part of my wheels purple....think it will make them pop a little more, but mainly because the Hulk had purple pants!

[DriverOne]

Hey, I saw a Toyota ECHO with a set of stock sideskirts... Looked plastic. Definitely trimmable, but I dunno the wheelbase in comparison with the Festiva. Maybe check the JY for one of those. Looked like the only thing on the car that made it anything more than a kiddie-drawn ride.

[lanemeyer14]

Car looks amazing!! Just a few questions, maybe dumb but I don't have a lot of experience with the festiva. 1. What are the wheels on your car and what size tires do you have on them? 2. Did you require any spacers to get them to fit? 3. How much did you cut your springs and do you have any rubbing issues? Thanks for any answers you can give. Again the car looks AWESOME and I can only hope mine will look that good some day.

Bob

The wheels are off early mazda miatas....most people refer to them as the "daisy" wheels. Don't need spacers to fit them, but you do need the aspire swap since the bolt pattern is 4x100. Tires are 185/60r14 I believe, and I do rub every now and then in the back over large bumps. I cut two coils outta all the springs. I've got brand new kyb shocks and FMS springs to go on it, but I just wanted to try cutting the springs before I put all that on.

woah woah woah.. stop the train.. awesome looking car, but where are the engine shots?! lol

Haha, nothing special about the engine yet. Still trying to track down a B8 to drop into her!

Let's see the new Shield!

Man, it's so nice! I do need to get some new pics now that she doesn't look all beat up.

[CHills]

Let's see the new Shield!

[91blufestiva]

woah woah woah.. stop the train.. awesome looking car, but where are the engine shots?! lol

[FestiHauler]

Car looks amazing!! Just a few questions, maybe dumb but I don't have a lot of experience with the festiva. 1. What are the wheels on your car and what size tires do you have on them? 2. Did you require any spacers to get them to fit? 3. How much did you cut your springs and do you have any rubbing issues? Thanks for any answers you can give. Again the car looks AWESOME and I can only hope mine will look that good some day.

Bob

[Pocket_Rocket]

^ T'étais passé ou toi ? Ça fais un méchant bout qu'on t'as pas vu. T'as surement manqué le thread des hood en fibre de carbon et fibre de verre il sont super j'ai hâte d'avoir le mien.

Sorry for the French off topic

Retour aux études + refaire le body de la Festiva= manque de temps loll!!!

Like Maxtiva said, I haven't been here for a while...The reason, simply put, is:

back to school (taking a carpenter's class)+ bodywork on the ol' Festy (last winter left his marks, or should I say, holes...) = busy schedule!!!

[lanemeyer14]

Man that car turned out great!!! I haven't been on this site a lot lately, and looks like I missed a lot. I just read this whole thread after I saw your new signature pic ( I thought you got a new Festy and wanted to read about it) and man, I couldn't believe how far it has come! You've got skills man!

Thanks a lot! Some people don't appreciate the work we put into these little cars, they just don't know how fun they are.

And about side skirts, have you checked those from '89-'94 Swift GTi's? That would look good IMO, although it would require a lot of modification...

I haven't looked into the swift gti's, but I'll keep that in mind now!

[Maxtiva]

^ T'étais passé ou toi ? Ça fais un méchant bout qu'on t'as pas vu. T'as surement manqué le thread des hood en fibre de carbon et fibre de verre il sont super j'ai hâte d'avoir le mien.

Sorry for the French off topic