W4RKRY's '91 Build

[w4rkry]

That's probably the best place, since it is specific info for people going to the meet.

Ok, will do. Thanks for the free bushings!

[TominMO]

Post them in the Carlyle meet thread?

That's probably the best place, since it is specific info for people going to the meet.

[w4rkry]

Put up a list of parts you want to purchase from people who are coming to the Carlyle meet, come to the meet, buy parts. I'll toss in free shifter bushings.

Post them in the Carlyle meet thread?

[TominMO]

Put up a list of parts you want to purchase from people who are coming to the Carlyle meet, come to the meet, buy parts. I'll toss in free shifter bushings.

[Team Lightning]

Depending on your wheels upgrade in the future, I'd go ahead with the Aspire swap. Use the aspire master cylinder and booster. They really help on the brake system.

[w4rkry]

I will be keeping a running Imgur Gallery folder with Festiva pics for anyone that is interested.
Festiva Album

[w4rkry]

This is my first Festiva!
A little background on the purchase can be found here:Just bought my first Festiva

So I'm starting this thread to document the condition I recieved the car in and to keep track of all the changes I make.

THE BAD

The car currently has a bunch of little problems. First, it pulls to the left on acceleration/right on decel. I read up on it and have decided to swap in new moog sway bar to LCA bushings. They should arrive tomorrow so I will be updating this when the time comes.

Anything from the ground up to 10 inches is super rusted. All my brake lines/body panels/hubs/frame. The PO covered the bottom of the body with truck bed liner but didn't actually remove the rust first, just sprayed over it. Not much I can do about that.

The PO replaced the front pads and rotors, and the drive shafts.

The rear brake assembly has been removed from the hub. All rear brake lines have been snipped and the parking brake is therefore not functional. I am considering the aspire swap to fix this.
The parking brake lever does not stay down, so the light is always on in the dash.

The dome light doesnt work. I still need to trouble shoot that one.

The seats are torn up, will be swapping those eventually.

The windows love to come off the tracks.

The shifter is super loose, I will be doing those bushings sometime, maybe even a short shifter.

Owner before the PO was a heavy smoker, there are a couple burns on the carpet. The headliner and seatbelt rail covers are super tan from smoke.

PO covered the interior rear panels in bedliner (WHY??)'

PO put in broken fog lights, used wayy to much wire. THe switch was duct taped to the steering column and he spliced power from the cigarette lighter.

Front windshield is craked

Exhaust is held on with garbage flex-pipe

Tailgate latch is broken, must be opened from the inside by fiddling with the mechanism

THE GOOD

The gauges all work

The headlights/tailights/markers all work

The dash is not cracked

The carpets are in good shape

Came with spare tire & jack & wrench

The engine and trans are working perfectly

The PO just put on a brand new tint job (You can see where his priorities were)

Wipers work

Has a long Cherry Bomb glasspack muffler

THE BUILD & FIXES

So the first thing I had to do was put in a radio. Some of you may think that rear brakes or suspension is important, but the exhaust drone would have driven me insane. I got a nice pioneer head unit with bluetooth and kicker 4" in the stock front location. I skipped the rear speakers. I then removed the rear seats and put 2 12" kicker subs and amp in the back. The sub box kept sliding around so I made up some brackets to hold it down. These go into the holes where the rear seatbelts were mounted (See Pics).

So far this is all I done. If there are any parts of the car you all would like information/pics on before I change them, let me know!
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