Pedro the Festiva's build thread.

[bhearts]

You milled your head 20? Cool! Take it back off and do another 50, so you can run e85 and make some serious na power. That's just what I'd do. Prove all the ethanol nay sayers wrong about ethanol and fuel economy

[Advancedynamix]

Oh. Well, this is an early 88 so it could have the close ratio tranny. If so this could be a potential NA festy contender for "fastest festiva" drag time. hmm. I put a balancer from an Mx3 with the b6d on this car, and the festy flywheel is very close to the weight of an NA miata flywheel so I'm thinking this car won't be real hard on trannies. It's not always the TQ that kills transmissions, more often than not it's the harmonics. This car will have the softest mounts I can use without wheel hop. A lot of tranny killing cars are BP with lightened flywheels and no balancer or the wrong balancer pulley and solid motor mounts. That is a recipe for tranny destruction.

[bhazard]

I think I read on here that very early 4-speeds had shorter ratios than most other 4-speeds. I guess when you blow that one up maybe pull the gears and count the teeth?

[Advancedynamix]

You should assume it will not stay stock for long I assume. Lol

It's already a little modded. lol. I did some port work (mild street port) and had the head milled .020" to bump the compression up to 9.9:1. It's got ACL race bearings in it and ARP head studs. Plus, the Gates Racing timing belt has gotta be worth at least 15hp :p

[Advancedynamix]

Your 4 speed will love that b6d.
Mine dose! But I did go from 38 average with the 5sped to 36.
You do amazing work and I'm looking forward to seeing how this all turns out .

Thanks! I'm going to do what I can to squeeze every last MPG out of this.

I don't see how the 4 speed would be any different than a 5 speed besides screaming on the highway

I think the 4 speed has different gear ratios, not just one less gear. Either way, I really liked driving Babe (carb'd 89 4 speed) but wanted fuel injection and a little more than the b3 could give me. I never did the swap to Babe because that car ran so good and I couldn't justify it. Pedro's B3 had a bad crank, so it was a good excuse to toss the B3 for this low mileage JDM B6ze.

Something more expensive then heroin

A festiva race car is cheap, but the tires are still pretty expensive.

So clean! very nice work!

Thanks!

[Hot_Wheels]

So clean! very nice work!

[Damkid]

What is a racecar?

Something more expensive then heroin

[bhearts]

You should assume it will not stay stock for long I assume. Lol

[bhazard]

I don't see how the 4 speed would be any different than a 5 speed besides screaming on the highway

[william]

Your 4 speed will love that b6d.
Mine dose! But I did go from 38 average with the 5sped to 36.
You do amazing work and I'm looking forward to seeing how this all turns out .

[Advancedynamix]

Looking outstanding! That poor little e-series is going to hate it's life!

4 speeds of fury! Lol. Every time I drove Babe, I couldn't help but think, "I bet this old 4 speed would be fun with a sportier engine bolted to it"

From the looks of it, you've never built a racecar before ;-)

What is a racecar?

[bhearts]

From the looks of it, you've never built a racecar before ;-)

[sketchman]

sweeeet.

[skeeters_keeper]

Looking outstanding! That poor little e-series is going to hate it's life!

[greywolf200]

Looking awesome as always Charlie!!

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