Pedro the Festiva's build thread.

[rmoltis]

It is always nice to have tunes while your cruising.
next step is to sound deaden the interior.
to help eliminate all that freeaway noise.

[Advancedynamix]

I'll spray the panels. If I can get the head liner out of Virginia without ruining it, I'll spray the roof. That'll make a huge difference. If I can't get the headliner out in good shape than I won't touch Pedro's because it looks nice now. I'm not putting a back seat in Pedro, and I'm removing the seat supports for more room. I'm going to make panels for the back and I'll have it bed lined with grey bedliner.

[Advancedynamix]

Lots of updates here.
Last weekend I drove Pedro for the first time in nearly 2 years. It's hard to remember back that far, but I do remember the car felt very solid and stable for a nearly all original 88 festy. I think it's got Monroe rear shocks, but I'm pretty certain the fronts are original to the car. I threw on the best set of stock 12" steelies have with the least deteriorated kuhmo155/80-12 tires.

Impression: hahahahahaha! If you don't push on the gas pedal much then it's a really a pleasant little car. It is like driving a very smooth and tight b3. Butt, over half throttle and it's like driving a cartoon car. The front of the car raises up what feels like a foot and the back squats down and it spins instantly. No noticeable tq steer with the dry old 12" tires, but it spins pretty easily in first and second gear. It doesn't take any effort to light these things up.

So, I bought some 155/65-13 Sunny tires off eBay to replace these dry old 12's and had them mounted to a set of old Hyundai Excel 13x5 alloys that I had. Much better traction, but I blew a hole in the stock exhaust. So I put it up on the lift last night and cut the old exhaust out. I then chopped up a stock exhaust from a 2015 mustang to get some nice stainless mandrel bends and I'm going to build a 2.25" system today for the car. Here is where Pedro slept last night. Can you see the excitement in his headlights? He's digging on that 500whp MK5 in front of him and tickled by the S5 on air under his belly. Haha.

[kumalaba]

very nice! diggin that 500hp ride also

[Advancedynamix]

Here is Pedro's new 2.25" exhaust. I only made it with stainless from the e brake back, because I'm going to replace that front part after the car goes through smog.

[bhazard]

Very pretty. What muffler?

[Advancedynamix]

I used a Dynomax. It has a little to much of a buzzy tone right now, but that should disappear with a good resonator. The piping was made from a 2015 mustang 2.3 exhaust that I cut up. It's .049" wall 409. Pretty light weight.

[jhntu]

Thats exactly what I did with the harness!

Looking great.

Next time i ever do one though, pulling the whole front loom and doing it all proper like.

Just a question, is there a place to order new loom grommets for the chassis?

Need one for my project.

[Advancedynamix]

I used the grommet I got from the Capri at the salvage yard.

[Advancedynamix]

I spent the day down in Tucson, hanging out with Dragonhealer (Ryal). 2 b6d swapped festies.

Here is Pedro's completed b6d Capri conversion.

[jhntu]

She's gorgeous

[Gomez]

Awesome!!!

[TominMO]

Man that is nice. How does it even run? Looks like 1/3 of the engine bay parts are missing......

[bravekozak]

No A/C?
Please post a vid of the engine running.
I like no rust. I can look at that all day long. Nice.

[rmoltis]

That is nice, very clean.