Pedro the Festiva's build thread.

[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

[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]

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.

[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

[Festiva_Fred]

Fantastic work as always!

[Advancedynamix]

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

Nah, this is just a replacement for the clunky carb'd b3. I plan to take some very long road trips in this car and E85 is not easy to come by on the open road. I've got plans for an E85 build, but not this car. 9.9:1 should be fine for the 91 octane we have in our pumps.

[kumalaba]

nice work charlie! hope you make madness this year

[bhearts]

Nah, this is just a replacement for the clunky carb'd b3. I plan to take some very long road trips in this car and E85 is not easy to come by on the open road. I've got plans for an E85 build, but not this car. 9.9:1 should be fine for the 91 octane we have in our pumps.

I hate that, having to plan around fill ups

[Advancedynamix]

Fantastic work as always!

nice work charlie! hope you make madness this year

Thanks guys! I hope I make madness too.

[Advancedynamix]

Made a little more progress over the weekend. I'm using the Capri intake and air box. This gives plenty of hood clearance. I'll need to fabricate some brackets to hold the air box in, and move the battery to the other side of the engine bay.

[niklid05]

Is that an engine bay or a surgical table? Damn thats clean.

[fastivaca]

Charlie, did you use the stock Festiva lower rad hose/bypass? I believe I read somewhere in another thread that it could be used and would free up some room and add a bit of clearance for an A/C compressor mount.

Ian

[Advancedynamix]

Charlie, did you use the stock Festiva lower rad hose/bypass? I believe I read somewhere in another thread that it could be used and would free up some room and add a bit of clearance for an A/C compressor mount.

Ian

I did. It's a nice piece and I don't need any custom hoses. Stock festiva hoses will work. The b6d has all the same holes in the block as the b3, and everything fits from the b3 to the b6d. This is a really easy swap. Pedro never had AC, but it would be easy to keep the AC with this setup, if the car had it to begin with.

[fastivaca]

I did. It's a nice piece and I don't need any custom hoses. Stock festiva hoses will work. The b6d has all the same holes in the block as the b3, and everything fits from the b3 to the b6d. This is a really easy swap. Pedro never had AC, but it would be easy to keep the AC with this setup, if the car had it to begin with.

That is very good to know indeed! Just have to rig up the idler pulley bracket with spacers to clear the water pump housing.

[Advancedynamix]

Yeah. That's been done by a bunch of people. Pretty simple. Have you thought about running power steering?