Festiva progression thread

[lanemeyer14]

Yeah, until I took the car to get inspected today, and failed HORRIBLY! Lets go through a list of stuff I now have to fix to pass inspection...
1. Need 4 new tires
2. Remove illegal tint from windows
3. Tail lights need red or orange turn signals
4. Need a tag light
5. Need an exhaust
Most of this stuff is an easy fix. Just gotta wire up the tag light, remove the window tint, swap out tail lights or bulbs maybe. The big thing is getting new tires...I priced some cheap ones and that's still gonna be $300+, and I'm not getting my exhaust put on til the end of the month! I need this stuff done so my car won't get towed from my apt. complex. Hulk mad!!

[batstiva]

Looking Good!! :thumbright:
Does that fact that you're showing the Hulk some love mean you are over the whole notion of getting rid of him??

BTW, the correct answer to that question is "Hell Yes!!!!!!!"

[lanemeyer14]

Did you just cut off a portion on the back end? They look very slick, I might have to try to find a set of these for my car.

Yeah, a portion of one of them was all smashed up and torn already so I ALMOST didn't get them because of that. I figured out I was gonna have to cut off even more so it would work out anyway. Even though I cut off a good bit, both ends still have that nice bulge at the bottom. The only problem is the ends near the rear don't have caps to keep stuff from gettting inside, but that will be fixed later

[pr0nst4r]

Nice looking skirts Cody I think they look better than the SVT ones would have for sure.

I also chuckled a little inside because I put the sport package on the GL (Contour) that I had. Irony.

[chrisofna]

Did you just cut off a portion on the back end? They look very slick, I might have to try to find a set of these for my car.

[lanemeyer14]

Did you have to modify them to fit?

All I had to do was cut them to size and use the mounting brackets that were on the contour. This was the only set I could find at the jy and one of them was ripped at the end (luckily I needed to cut that portion off anyway). You also have to drill some holes in the festy to mount the brackets, otherwise they won't be secure at the top

[brickdog2000]

Did you have to modify them to fit?

[lanemeyer14]

covers something up too. I like them

Haha, yeah, that huge dent that I didn't bother with on the front driver's side! I also like the fact that it covers that pinch weld/jack lip that I think is so ugly!

[eurotiva]

covers something up too. I like them

[lanemeyer14]

Nice.....What they from?

Ford contour sport

[hofficergrover]

Nice.....What they from?

[lanemeyer14]

Notice anything different??...Kinda hard to see in the pics, but I finally found some sideskirts!

[lanemeyer14]

I just did the bottom of my car with this method, I screwed up and didn't put hardener in the first two coats, you don't have to if you wait 24 hours between, but I only waited 4 hours, I didn't wet sand between any of the coats. The third coat I added hardener and it dried in about 4 hours. It still looks pretty good, it is a little orange peely, but not bad at all. I am not going to change it cause it is on the bottom part of the car and isn't that noticable. The upper sections though, I am going to wet sand and hardener to every coat. Are you using the foam rollers, cause that definately makes it go on smoother. I used a 4 inch roller and was the perfect size.

Yeah, I used 4 inch foam rollers, wetsanded between every 2 coats and it came out great. I didn't use any hardener though....mixed my paint about 50/50 with mineral spirits and it would set fast enough to where I was doing 2 coats a day

[Breedlove]

Ok, since this is my first experience with this $50 paint job stuff, I'm a little curious...How much do I need to wetsand in between every other coat to make the paint look good? I'm pretty happy with the way it's looking without wetsanding, so I wonder if it's really worth the effort? This is in NO WAY going to be a show car, so it doesn't need to be perfect. I wetsanded one of the fenders and put another coat of paint on it, I'm just not sure I wetsanded it enough. If anyone has any idea please help me out!

Edit: I also put another coat on part of the car that I didn't wetsand at all and I can definitely notice a difference. Still not sure I wetsanded the fender enough before I put that other coat on, but it does look better than the other part of the car

I just did the bottom of my car with this method, I screwed up and didn't put hardener in the first two coats, you don't have to if you wait 24 hours between, but I only waited 4 hours, I didn't wet sand between any of the coats. The third coat I added hardener and it dried in about 4 hours. It still looks pretty good, it is a little orange peely, but not bad at all. I am not going to change it cause it is on the bottom part of the car and isn't that noticable. The upper sections though, I am going to wet sand and hardener to every coat. Are you using the foam rollers, cause that definately makes it go on smoother. I used a 4 inch roller and was the perfect size.

[lanemeyer14]

thanks lane i was gonna put a few coats of hi temp paint under the bronze first anyway

No problem. I'm gonna try a new color on the wheels when the weather gets warm enough to paint....the bronze looks good, but it doesn't have enough "kick" for me