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This was a very very close race this month but there has to be a winner and that is............
gorgonheimer!!!! Congratulations
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i got the itch to build a festy when i saw on sitting in my friends junk yard. i promptly went home and searched and found this site. then all the dreams started flooding in and i decided to build a bp with a turbo. i told the people at the yard that i wanted "the little red car in the back." he was like "ok" but the next time i went to look at it the owners had let the local fire dept practice with the jaws of life on it. i was bummed.
so off to craigs list i go. find one for 1350. kinda steep considering the condition so i was able to talk him down to 550 cash. drive off and what is this?! no forth gear. ran it out of gas on the way home cause the gauge said 1/4 of a tank. so i got this car. im stoked. needs lots of work. interior is all molded cause the taillights leak(and the windows)
so i strip the interior
then as i am driving the festy in to the shop(WHERE I WORK) for some work i get pulled over. this results in a ticket for no insurance, no inspection, and no registration, and it is towed. bummer!!
so i get it out of car jail. now i have 2 weeks to get it registered, inspected and insured. and fix all the safety stuff, and emissions.
so...
aspire swap.
wheels and tires
ok they are steel wheels but they are 15" and have good tires, cooper zeon zpt 195/50/15
head lights and wipers and seat belts. oh yeah my seats!!!
seats stolen from a cavalier
after barely passing emissions with a stuck injector on my b3 i drove it like that for 3 or 4 months, collecting parts for the bp swap. got the motor for 300 and the next week i get a whole protege for 100! (minus tranny) get the tranny.
then i start cleaning and painting and replacing gaskets and stuff on the bp
then i put it all together:
old motor and trans out
frame notch and patch
bp in
radiator mounted in "custom" location with upper support removed and new piece made from angle iron, works really well and only takes like 5 min to remove radiator and fan and both hoses, oh and lower hose is only like 4 inches long
finished
93 festy gl
Bp swap with hydrolic g tranny/ clutch=bp pressure plate+v6 probe disc
ghetto shorty ram intake
2.5 in exhaust from motor to back (built by me) using high flow cat and a magnaflow muffler
18deg base ignition timing
bronzeoil shifter bushings from corksport
power mirrors
grant gt wheel
future mod:
turbo using ct26 from a supra
coilovers with agx shocks
full cage and...
paintjob
Thanks to everyone
i got the itch to build a festy when i saw on sitting in my friends junk yard. i promptly went home and searched and found this site. then all the dreams started flooding in and i decided to build a bp with a turbo. i told the people at the yard that i wanted "the little red car in the back." he was like "ok" but the next time i went to look at it the owners had let the local fire dept practice with the jaws of life on it. i was bummed.
so off to craigs list i go. find one for 1350. kinda steep considering the condition so i was able to talk him down to 550 cash. drive off and what is this?! no forth gear. ran it out of gas on the way home cause the gauge said 1/4 of a tank. so i got this car. im stoked. needs lots of work. interior is all molded cause the taillights leak(and the windows)
so i strip the interior
then as i am driving the festy in to the shop(WHERE I WORK) for some work i get pulled over. this results in a ticket for no insurance, no inspection, and no registration, and it is towed. bummer!!
so i get it out of car jail. now i have 2 weeks to get it registered, inspected and insured. and fix all the safety stuff, and emissions.
so...
aspire swap.
wheels and tires
ok they are steel wheels but they are 15" and have good tires, cooper zeon zpt 195/50/15
head lights and wipers and seat belts. oh yeah my seats!!!
seats stolen from a cavalier
after barely passing emissions with a stuck injector on my b3 i drove it like that for 3 or 4 months, collecting parts for the bp swap. got the motor for 300 and the next week i get a whole protege for 100! (minus tranny) get the tranny.
then i start cleaning and painting and replacing gaskets and stuff on the bp
then i put it all together:
old motor and trans out
frame notch and patch
bp in
radiator mounted in "custom" location with upper support removed and new piece made from angle iron, works really well and only takes like 5 min to remove radiator and fan and both hoses, oh and lower hose is only like 4 inches long
finished
93 festy gl
Bp swap with hydrolic g tranny/ clutch=bp pressure plate+v6 probe disc
ghetto shorty ram intake
2.5 in exhaust from motor to back (built by me) using high flow cat and a magnaflow muffler
18deg base ignition timing
bronzeoil shifter bushings from corksport
power mirrors
grant gt wheel
future mod:
turbo using ct26 from a supra
coilovers with agx shocks
full cage and...
paintjob
Thanks to everyone
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