1989 L Revistited- Build Thread

[Festiva_Fred]

Some progress..

Removed the rear suspension beam, need to redo the brakes and replace the pass side spindle.



Going to get this beam sandblasted and then repainted, and reassemble it all.


Good news! the 6 bolts that bolt the beam to the body came out easily and the car is nice and solid at the mounting points




Also removing this crappy exhaust thats on it right now.




And I've been removing some more of the A/C stuff

[Festiva_Fred]

Update!

Old exhaust is removed now, along with the front suspension, and within the next week or 2 the car will get a aspire swap installed, a new radiator, and a few other things.

Today I removed the stock front suspension/brakes from the car.




Goodbye!

[Festiva_Fred]

Got a little bit done today, but got sidetracked with some other things so I didn't get to work on it as much as I wanted to, and then it started to rain, but progress is progress..

"New" wheels/tires for the 89'



A sad festiva..



The aspire swap (has 80 something k miles on it), and LCA's, sway bar bushings, struts, tie rod ends that are being swapped over.. (only have 1200 miles on them)




On the 89'... drivers side is partway done, still have to swap over the tie rod ends, and I'm also swapping the aspire swaybar onto the 89'




Thats all for today.

[91blufestiva]

Fred, you confuse me lol, I dont see why you would give up on the 93... you had such a good lookin car. Dont worry, I still like the looks of the 89, but jzz!! lol, good luck on the build Fred.

[Festiva_Fred]

Fred, you confuse me lol, I dont see why you would give up on the 93... you had such a good lookin car. Dont worry, I still like the looks of the 89, but jzz!! lol, good luck on the build Fred.

lol.. just wait I'll have a better looking car when the 89' is done.. The plan of attack is to put all my good stuff into one Festiva (The 89') and then sell or trade the 93'. Also going to scrap my two parts cars, and sell alot of my parts off. Decided to cut back to one since I'm gonna be going off to college in the next year and need to have one, good, reliable car to drive.. the 93' has been anything but reliable so far and I got burnt out on the list of things to fix growing bigger everyweek I drove it pretty much :lol: Chose the 89' also because I want to do a B6-E swap on it.. and the 89' FI set-up is perfect for that, and this car has more sentimental value to me.. it was the first festiva I ever drove out on the highway

[91blufestiva]

Well, nice work on the car Fred, if you end up selling the tach out of the green one... let me know :lol: (mine dont work worth ____)

[Festiva_Fred]

Well, nice work on the car Fred, if you end up selling the tach out of the green one... let me know :lol: (mine dont work worth ____)

Have a orange tach? I'll trade you if you do..

[Festiva_Fred]

Front brake swap is done except for swapping out the tie rod ends and hooking the brake hoses up



Still up on jackstands..




Back on the ground, starting to look sweet I think







Can't wait to get the back brakes swapped, and see how the car looks then. After that I'll be able to move it out of the barn and onto the concrete parking spot by the garage that'll make working on it alot easier..

[Festiva_Fred]

Woo!! It moves again!!

How it looked this afternoon...



And here she is after I worked on it for a bit, and one of my friend unexpectedly stopped by and helped wrench on it too I feel accomplished, I wanted to get it rolling again by the end of the weekend and I already did that Next week is the start of my easter break so I'll have a ton of free time to spend on the car then! Anyway here's the after pics:

Finally out of the barn again.









..And in the garage now




I'm loving how this thing is turning out so far, the red calipers and drums look sweet with the red hockey stripe, and the wheels look nice like always. Gonna look way nicer than the green one did IMO.. and white festy's are one of my favorite colors.

[91blufestiva]

Fred, it's looking sweet!! Hopefully I'll be able to see it in person here within a month

[Festiva_Fred]

Fred, it's looking sweet!! Hopefully I'll be able to see it in person here within a month

Thanks Josh! Yeah that would be cool!

[freshtiva]

Welcome back to the WFWRHS Mafia. We knew youd be back, once you're in, you're in for life.

[JPT]

Welcome back to the WFWRHS Mafia. We knew youd be back, once you're in, you're in for life.

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Let me guess...

White Festiva With Red Hockeystick Stripe?

[Festiva_Fred]

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Let me guess...

White Festiva With Red Hockeystick Stripe?

Yes.

[Festiva_Fred]

Today's work..

"New" exhaust ready to be installed


Installed



Ready to start reassembling the interior







Put some mirrors on it.