Festiva progression thread

[monasterio_drums]

Haha, thanks! All I did was walk around the junkyard looking at different bumpers that I liked and that I thought would fit. If there was something I liked and the junkyard also had a festiva I would test fit the bumpers while I was there to see how much work would need to be done

luck finding yours ... just the nicest bumper forum!
estimate, which is your angle calculation to know that bumper is as far?

I do not want to buy to buy, want to go to secure the purchase ..
not spare the money to go buy a bumper all day ........
Finally thanks for all your help and advice I have been very useful ......

thanks thank you very much ...

[lanemeyer14]

The bumper of the Subaru Impreza is not like me ......
has no class, which gives .... yours is wonderful ... why my idea is to find a bumper that looks pretty to yours ..........

Haha, thanks! All I did was walk around the junkyard looking at different bumpers that I liked and that I thought would fit. If there was something I liked and the junkyard also had a festiva I would test fit the bumpers while I was there to see how much work would need to be done

[monasterio_drums]

Lot's of other bumpers can be made to fit. There are guys on here with civic and crx bumpers and one guy that has a subaru impreza bumper(http://www.fordfestiva.com/forums/sh...=subaru&page=2 ninth post down for pics). It all depends on how much work you're willing to do

The bumper of the Subaru Impreza is not like me ......
has no class, which gives .... yours is wonderful ... why my idea is to find a bumper that looks pretty to yours ..........

[lanemeyer14]

if it was exactly what I was wondering .......
shame that in Chile is very little isuzu stylus, you have an idea of some bumper that looks like the isuzu stylus and to make my ford festiva?

Lot's of other bumpers can be made to fit. There are guys on here with civic and crx bumpers and one guy that has a subaru impreza bumper(http://www.fordfestiva.com/forums/sh...=subaru&page=2 ninth post down for pics). It all depends on how much work you're willing to do

[monasterio_drums]

I think you're asking what car I got the front and rear bumpers off of....if so, they are from an Isuzu stylus 90-93. It requires a bit of modification to fit

if it was exactly what I was wondering .......
shame that in Chile is very little isuzu stylus, you have some notion of some bumper that looks like the isuzu stylus and to make my ford festiva?

[lanemeyer14]

hello again
I wanted to see, that specific car .. did you get that bumper that is fabulous, and I would love to have him in my ford festiva .. if you could be kind enough to provide the information ....

in advance thank you very much!

I think you're asking what car I got the front and rear bumpers off of....if so, they are from an Isuzu stylus 90-93. It requires a bit of modification to fit

[monasterio_drums]

Another small update. Went to the JY today looking for anything cool. Stumbled on a car that had a pretty nice front bumper that kinda reminded me of the ATH kit. I decided to get it, and spent the day making it fit the festy. Took me all day, but I think it turned out awesome! I still need to make some brackets or something, but it fits great and I was even able to use the lower mounting brackets. Not sure what I'm gonna do about the bumper signals. One of them was missing but they wouldn't fit properly anyway due to the festy bumper support being in the way. I think I'll stop back by the yard tomorrow and pick up the rear bumper too. They should look really good when painted. Also test fitted my clear kia pride corner lights, they still need to be wired up though. Enjoy!

hello again
I wanted to see, that specific car .. did you get that bumper that is fabulous, and I would love to have him in my ford festiva .. if you could be kind enough to provide the information ....

in advance thank you very much!

[sasquatch]

^^ It's never a good sign when the compression from cylinders #2 and #3 are pushing water out the top of the radiator and cylinder #4 only has 90psi

my friend blew the head gasket so bad in the v8 quad we built that after sitting for a bit all the water was gone in the rad... then we fill it up and we could slowly watch it go down... then we try to crank it over and it goes VERY VERY VERY slooooooow... we couldnt figgure out what was wrong untill water started pouring out the turbo!!! LOL.... we had a made a v8 water pump lol...

[Zanzer]

^^ It's never a good sign when the compression from cylinders #2 and #3 are pushing water out the top of the radiator and cylinder #4 only has 90psi

We've got our fingers crossed that you find a good B8. Brad and I have been talking about how cool it will be to do a swap

[lanemeyer14]

congratulations!
The Ford Festiva is of great ... what year is the car? has 4 or 5-speed

greetings!

Haha, thanks! It's a 91 5spd. Guess I should update this thread while I'm at it. Met up with Mark (Zanzer) and Brad (Sensei) over the weekend. They put brand new tires on my new wheels, put in new rear wheel bearings, new brake shoes and brake cylinders too. We were going to meet up the next day to work on the exhaust but disaster struck on my way home. Blew the head gasket! Mark was awesome enough to pick me up and take me the rest of the way home and he also went back later to tow the car to his house. I'm now looking for a b8 to swap into it because we think there may be more wrong than just a blown head gasket.

[monasterio_drums]

congratulations!
The Ford Festiva is of great ... what year is the car? has 4 or 5-speed

greetings!

[lanemeyer14]

Well I think I've got the inspection taken care of for now. I do need to get some better tires on this thing though.

[getnpsi]

Well looks good how you have it so far. Makes it pop and matches the front and rear better. And you were gonna sell this thing? No way! Get a CHEAP exhaust on it and go find your BP. Cheap because with the new engine you'll change it anyway! Maybe you can borrow a local festy exhaust that bolts on and off?

[lanemeyer14]

On the drivers side you only cut on one side? It looks very smooth up at the front wheel in the pic. Did you sand them and repaint them with satin paint or sopmething? This info should go into that "what non-festiva stuff fits my car" thread.

Yeah, I only cut the rear off of each side. So now I don't have that finished "end cap" portion on the rears, only on the fronts. I could have cut them in the middle and grafted them together to keep both end caps, but one of them was already torn on one end, so I made them work best I could. I'll probably just fiberglass some end caps on them soon. I also sanded them down and slapped on some flat black paint to match the front and rear lips

[getnpsi]

On the drivers side you only cut on one side? It looks very smooth up at the front wheel in the pic. Did you sand them and repaint them with satin paint or sopmething? This info should go into that "what non-festiva stuff fits my car" thread.