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My Entry- 93' L
Here is my entry, it's a 93' L. I had first seen this car and the 90' L+ that I also bought a while back sitting outside a shop with weeds growing around them. I wrote down the name of the shop and asked the owner about them, and he said that they were a customer's cars and that they weren't for sale. Fast forward about six months and they were still there so we talked to the shop owner again, and he said the guy who owned the festivas owed money on repair work on them and some other vehicles and wasn't paying it. Then he said he would try to get a lien on them so he could sell them, the owner of the cars said that if the festivas didn't sell that he would scrap them. About a month later the shop owner got a lien on them and we bought the cars, we also bought a 3rd one at the same time as a parts car that was owned by the shop owners neighbor or something.
Well anyway here's the 3 we bought:
89' Parts car-
90' L+
93' L-
festivaWES and I hauled all the cars to my house on the same day that he got Old Red from me. Big thanks to him for helping me out there!
Wes leaving with Old Red (my first festiva)
Here's a shot of when I owned 5 festivas for a shot period of time
Back to the story of the car, originally I had no plans to fix up the 93' I had planned on selling it or trading it for parts to build the 90' L+, but then about halfway through the summer my parents were getting kinda mad at me for not having a running car to drive yet, and thats when work stopped on the L+. My parents gave me the 89' but I couldn't drive it yet since my mom needed something to drive to work, so one day I asked my dad if it would be okay if I let them keep the 89' and I fix up the 93' and he agreed to it. So thats the story of how I started building this car.
A bunch of work has gone into this car, so I'll make a list of all the mods at the end of my entry, and put up some pics of the highlights of the build.
Wes installed a aspire cyl. head w/80k on it
Aspire swap and honda VX's courtesy of festivaWES
New water and oil pump, thanks again to Wes for helping me out there.
Here is how it sits now.
Latest addition to the car is the FMS strut brace
I have learned alot from building this car, a big thanks goes out to festivaWES for everything that he helped out with! Aspire swap, cylinder head install, honda VX wheels, water and oil pump install, etc..
And thanks to other forum members whose parts were put to use on this car, the trans on the car is from Marcus's (freshtivas) blue B6 car before he did the ATX to MTX swap, and the strut brace I bought from Kyle (silv3rbull3t)
Here's the list of everything that I can think of thats been done to the car so far:
-Completely stripped the interior and replaced it with a L+ interior
-Fixed some rust problems in front of both rear wheels
-Added a spoiler
-Custom grill
-painted bumpers
-Tach cluster
-Rear defrost
-Aspire swap
-Honda VX wheels
-New struts/shocks
-New LCA's
-New sway bar bushings
-Aspire front sway bar
-Lowered w/cut stock springs 2 1/2 coils front, 2 coils back
-Aspire cylinder head
-New water pump
-New oil pump
-Aspire intake tube
-MTX to ATX swap
Thats my entry, hope you like it If you want to see the whole build from the start to now most of it is covered in this thread- http://www.fordfestiva.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=22582
-Fred
Here is my entry, it's a 93' L. I had first seen this car and the 90' L+ that I also bought a while back sitting outside a shop with weeds growing around them. I wrote down the name of the shop and asked the owner about them, and he said that they were a customer's cars and that they weren't for sale. Fast forward about six months and they were still there so we talked to the shop owner again, and he said the guy who owned the festivas owed money on repair work on them and some other vehicles and wasn't paying it. Then he said he would try to get a lien on them so he could sell them, the owner of the cars said that if the festivas didn't sell that he would scrap them. About a month later the shop owner got a lien on them and we bought the cars, we also bought a 3rd one at the same time as a parts car that was owned by the shop owners neighbor or something.
Well anyway here's the 3 we bought:
89' Parts car-
90' L+
93' L-
festivaWES and I hauled all the cars to my house on the same day that he got Old Red from me. Big thanks to him for helping me out there!
Wes leaving with Old Red (my first festiva)
Here's a shot of when I owned 5 festivas for a shot period of time
Back to the story of the car, originally I had no plans to fix up the 93' I had planned on selling it or trading it for parts to build the 90' L+, but then about halfway through the summer my parents were getting kinda mad at me for not having a running car to drive yet, and thats when work stopped on the L+. My parents gave me the 89' but I couldn't drive it yet since my mom needed something to drive to work, so one day I asked my dad if it would be okay if I let them keep the 89' and I fix up the 93' and he agreed to it. So thats the story of how I started building this car.
A bunch of work has gone into this car, so I'll make a list of all the mods at the end of my entry, and put up some pics of the highlights of the build.
Wes installed a aspire cyl. head w/80k on it
Aspire swap and honda VX's courtesy of festivaWES
New water and oil pump, thanks again to Wes for helping me out there.
Here is how it sits now.
Latest addition to the car is the FMS strut brace
I have learned alot from building this car, a big thanks goes out to festivaWES for everything that he helped out with! Aspire swap, cylinder head install, honda VX wheels, water and oil pump install, etc..
And thanks to other forum members whose parts were put to use on this car, the trans on the car is from Marcus's (freshtivas) blue B6 car before he did the ATX to MTX swap, and the strut brace I bought from Kyle (silv3rbull3t)
Here's the list of everything that I can think of thats been done to the car so far:
-Completely stripped the interior and replaced it with a L+ interior
-Fixed some rust problems in front of both rear wheels
-Added a spoiler
-Custom grill
-painted bumpers
-Tach cluster
-Rear defrost
-Aspire swap
-Honda VX wheels
-New struts/shocks
-New LCA's
-New sway bar bushings
-Aspire front sway bar
-Lowered w/cut stock springs 2 1/2 coils front, 2 coils back
-Aspire cylinder head
-New water pump
-New oil pump
-Aspire intake tube
-MTX to ATX swap
Thats my entry, hope you like it
If you want to see the whole build from the start to now most of it is covered in this thread- http://www.fordfestiva.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=22582-Fred
& how do You Know I Like Yellow? lol:laughing6::laughing6::laughing6:
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