Festiva shooting for the 9s

[citizen caine]

Thanks..headed outside now to see if the ol escort & wench will pull the Festiva to the garage..did I mention I hate snow?

[Damkid]

Lol looking forward to some progress

[bhazard]

How much snow you guys get up there?

Sorry I never actually got around to selling you my 8.8. I suck at getting stuff done.

[citizen caine]

We just got 3" yesterday ..

The Festiva is now in the garage.

[drddan]

I have this vision ....of a Festiva ....with a 468 sticking out from the hood :eeeeeek:
Cut out the windshield and the firewall, stick that in there! That'll hold the wheels down. :p

[sc72]

Festiva project

I picked up a 8.8 rear end for my project.
Just curious, why not just slip in a narrowed 9"

[citizen caine]

468?? thats chevy talk.

We are going with a 351 set back a few inches. basically going to be driving from the back seat.

[citizen caine]

I picked up a 8.8 rear end for my project.
Just curious, why not just slip in a narrowed 9"

We build alot of mustangs at the shop.
We use 8.8 for all of our cars. We got a few 7 sec stangs running 8.8s.
With the aftermarket parts available this rear end is definitely strong enough.
The 8.8 is lighter & for dragracing we have no need to do a quick gear swap like the circle track cars do.

Plus we have stacks of parts for a 8.8 laying around.

[Coffinator6]

Just saw this thread. My vote was for a big turbo 2.3 as I used to have one in my 92 coupe. Loved that car. Saw your going with a 351, is it going to stay 351 or get strocked to 363, 408, 427 etc? Can't wait to see this build. Wheelie bars on a festiva is going to look sick.

[citizen caine]

Just saw this thread. My vote was for a big turbo 2.3 as I used to have one in my 92 coupe. Loved that car. Saw your going with a 351, is it going to stay 351 or get strocked to 363, 408, 427 etc? Can't wait to see this build. Wheelie bars on a festiva is going to look sick.

I wanted to do a 302 because of the size of the motor.
But the 351 will hold the power we want to make. Just sucks its wider than the 302.

The 23. turbo would have been cool, But we have so many parts for the 351 I cant beet the price for the used parts.

We will call it a 351, but we all know its much more than that

[blkfordsedan]

468?? thats chevy talk.

We are going with a 351 set back a few inches. basically going to be driving from the back seat.

:hello1:

[Basement_Modder]

Really looking forward to this!

[Damkid]

This thread needs more pics

[drddan]

468?? thats chevy talk.

Sorry :p I just had a flash of that 468 from the S-10 sitting in a Festiva!
It is almost as big as the car :eeeeeek: lol
I'll be watching this thread ...and you do need to post pics!

[citizen caine]

How about some pics tomorrow?
I will have a pile-o-crap sitting in the garage of everything i rip out tonight.