$460 festiva to run in Lemons

[russian]

So Jim has fabricated a sweet bracket for us



this fits inside the wheel with 20mm spacers but I've decided to take some material off the caliper body (it is like 1/2 inch thick I am sure it would survive this) so that only 10mm of spacing is needed:

[ERK1990]

Nice cage!!! ....lots of time in a cage. I've decided have a shop do mine (and that shop does pretty much all the cages for the track I'm racing at..so they know what to do to make it legal with their rules) ...great job.

[russian]

Damn it, rear axle mounting bolts pattern is different between Festiva and Aspire! And I have made my caliper bracket for Aspire axle

Good news wheel bearings are the same part number so hopefully Aspire drum I have machined into a hub would work on Festiva axle.

[Hot_Wheels]

it so happends i have a aspire axle on my festiva! if you want to sell the brackets let me know!

[russian]

it so happends i have a aspire axle on my festiva! if you want to sell the brackets let me know!

Eventually I would love to sell a couple of these, but only after I race them once. Which should be August 20-21

Another surprise - my best pair of rear calipers which I _know_ I have unscrewed from an e-gt turned to be from something else... Probably mx-3, will try mx-3 pads on it tomorrow.

[russian]

I am so greedy, I can carry 'with my hands' six brake calipers, four spindles, three brake rotors, two strut upper mounts and one brake booster for six feets if they let me have all this for $49. Love Victory Auto Wreckers special events

[russian]

That's like the seventh design, but finally an MX-3 caliper mounted with a 1/4" steel plate...

[russian]

Finally done!



more info

[Hot_Wheels]

where you able to get the parking brake to work? looks good!

[russian]

where you able to get the parking brake to work? looks good!

to be honest I did not really try... this car does not need them

[russian]

more info http://www.fordfestiva.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=44465

[russian]

putting a link to my sway bar write-up (chromoly tubing - not the threaded bar mod)

http://www.fordfestiva.com/forums/showthread.php?t=43326

[Hot_Wheels]

Looks good, did you run the stock sway bar up front? what struts are you running up front?

[russian]

stock sway bar up front - they say we do not need thicker to do road racing, we were fighting under steer so needed to stiffen the rear (i am just repeating, have no idea why and how this works - but it helped)

mazda 323 kyb struts there.

[Uhuzit]

to be honest I did not really try... this car does not need them

wheel chocks