Not a good day at the track. Festiva Down.

[rmoltis]

Some crx's have a 1.3 liter engine.

[WTFestiva]

Yeah thats a bit rough. Something we did to tighten our front end from such collisions is add that light bar on the front, in my sig you can see the 2 posts sticking up, Right through the bumper there's a spot for some welds you can put in. We added some DOM tubing up there and made it a removable light bar, something i didnt intend when we hit a tree at 40mph was that our light bar was in front of our radiator, and the bar blocked the impact on the front end. Cheap mod if you can bend the pipes, adds some front end impact rigid-ity. Good luck with the fix

[jemartin144]

I don't know how patient I can be waiting for another festiva and obviously my luck aint so good. Hopefully I can get it straight enough to get out on the track again. If it came down to buying another festiva to turn into a racecar, I would probably not do it. For a little more money than prepping a new one I can just by something that I can actually race in class, like a spec miata or formula 500.

Racing the CRX was a lot of fun and we both where leaving lots of time out there, so it was only gonna get more fun.

[BUSTIVA]

Leave it like that, track rat missile status omg jdm! lol Hope you get it sorted out.

[Icedawg]

I crumpled one corner of my ice racer somewhat less than yours, and we pulled it out with chains and immovable objects as other are recommending. But when it folded in a second time we replaced a diagonal section of the clip. I wrote it up and posted it on the site. Here is the thread, and here is one picture from that thread. If you can weld, or know someone who will weld thin-like-tissue Festiva-metal for you, like I did, then it is far less work than building a new race car. And even a rusty donor can give you nice sheet metal in the section you have to fix. It is hard to say from your photo, but it looks like a diagonal cut and weld could work for you. We could work from the front of the strut tower, but from where the driver's side wheel sits it looks like you would have to cut further back on that side.
The thread: http://www.fordfestiva.com/forums/sh...ip-Replacement
One pic from the thread


Later I rolled that chassis and twisted the frame front to back in a way that I could not fix, and the frame shop refused to try, saying the cage would stop them from pulling out the twist. So I bought another race car already prepared. But I hit a spun out VW right in front of me in February and toasted that one. We looked hard at doing another front end grafting but on this one we would have to start the cut and replacement from back behind the firewall, and it looks like just as much work as a new build.