1989 Festiva L Build

[Festiva_Fred]

Today's progress.















-"New" er LCA's
-New sway bar bushings
-Aspire sway bar swap
-Replaced some parts here and there on the inside and cleaned it up some.

[Festiva_Fred]

Few more things done..

Drivers seat back had seen better days, luckily I had one that was a exact match and not torn so I swapped it out.




Found some spark plug wire retainers I had in my parts stash, that made things look how they're supposed to again




Put a full size spare in, because space savers are a joke




And swapped out the drivers taillight for a ribbed one so it matches the pass side for now. Gonna find another smoothie or get some non-us taillights at some point, just wanted it to not be mismatched for now.

[tls_zx3]

does your aspire sway bar not hit the front trans mount? i put mine on before the bp swap and it wouldnt fit cause it was hitting the mount.

[Festiva_Fred]

does your aspire sway bar not hit the front trans mount? i put mine on before the bp swap and it wouldnt fit cause it was hitting the mount.

Just barely comes in contact with the front trans mount but everything went together fine. Never had a issue running the aspire bar this way.

[Festiva_Fred]

Progress.

Well, switched engines this weekend.. B3 for B3. Got a good used one from sc72 last weekend, thanks again The one that used to be in it was on it's last leg so it had to go! Was leaking oil like a siv and running on 3 cyl's, rings shot on one so it would just keep fouling plugs.

Bye bye old!


Old flywheel... that pilot bearing was locked up solid on it :shock:

Clutch disk had seen better days too...






Didn't take a finished pic.. nothing special to see, just a carbed b3 Festiva.

Runs good now! Nice to have a good engine and decent clutch! Just did this to keep it reliable for daily driving purposes. Next I'm going to start building the cars real engine!

And a random shot of the car I like..

[zoom zoom]

is that a sunroof ^.^

I don't know how you guys swap out motors so fast, I must just be slow!

[Festiva_Fred]

is that a sunroof ^.^

I don't know how you guys swap out motors so fast, I must just be slow!

Yessir it is! Festivas are easy!

[Festiva_Fred]

Well car as back in my hands as some of you might know by now, haven't changed too much yet.. Just took off the springs that Kingfish put on and replaced them with FMS ones.