My AutoX project thread. Vol.1

[Advancedynamix]

It's awesome how well mannered a properly set up Festiva can be. I can't find a better street legal go kart. The Atom and Crossbow are more gocartish, but forget a trip to home depot or a trip to the ski resort. Lotus Exige is fun, but again, no room and they are very fragile. Many wouldn't consider the Festiva to be in the same realm as those cars. I beg to differ.
I'm glad to see you back in the game. Any plans for a track day?

[Biglay5150]

Wow its been a long time. Just to update this car won EP class champ in my local club in 2009 then was parted and scrapped. Wish I nrever did that. I used to love driving this thing on the streets :-)

[tripod808]

The Idea is to widen the track width (not by much) and give me better camber for cornering. Toe in and toe out wont be a problem. Im also going to use the power steering from the Aspire.
Like Damkid said this is a race car and will not be driven on the street. I will keep everyone posted on how everything works.

I was wondering how the aspire power rack worked out for you. What are your impressions of its performance?

[mikeycar500]

what r u runing for tires size and brand i am just getting it to the auto x racing and my stock festiva ran great looking for a better tire now thanks

[Biglay5150]

[Biglay5150]

More recent pics!

[quaddawg]

ROCK ON!

Keep on with it... Festys are surprising autox cars!

[Biglay5150]

[Biglay5150]

The above pics are from yesterday. I had a blast and ran realy good times. Its a little stiff as this track was bumpy. I think Im goint to soften up the suspension and add a couple custom sway bars. Ill post pics of them soon. The car is already on jack stands and the rear is in pieces. The plan is to mount a sway bar on top of my rear beam. I will be at the j/y with a tape tomorow measuring swaybars. Stay tuned!

[Biglay5150]

Let us know how that works, I would think it would throw everything out of alignment.

I works great Ive race it twice and havnt had any problems. I got the camber I wanted and havnt had any axle problems.

[Biglay5150]

[Biglay5150]

For some reason there is a problem when I imbed pics from my site over to here but when I use image shack they work fine. I could see them before. Weard Ill try to figure it out.

[Festiva_Fred]

^I can see them now, Car looks good!

[Biglay5150]

How about now?

[Festiva_Fred]

Your kidding right. I see them and there in you quote!

No, I'm not kidding I'm not seeing any..