Voting For February FOTM

[Damkid]

This month we have 3 entries and they are from

FastivaB6TG25MR
Charlie1717
skimsucka

Here are the entries again

FastivaB6TG25MR's entry

where my festiva obsession began... so my friend bought his first festy 4 years ago...at first i did not like the car cause well...it was slow...like really slow... so one day he decided to bp swap it... i built the the front mount and did the wiring as well as some general fab work. we got it running and on that first test drive around the block taking 4 hours and 200 or so miles i fell in love. so last year when my same freind and now roommate came across a b6t for dirt cheap i got excited. i had just blown my second d15 motor(rod out the block) so i was in need of a car to get to and from work and since work was slow i could work out the little bugs and make minor repairs while i borrowed it...but after a week of driving it money changed hands and i had my very first festy!!! the car was bought swapped b6t with a stock everything and tons of problems. the first time at the track i ran a 15.2 i was crushed... when checking for reasons for such pitiful times i found the guy had the intake AND exhaust cams 3 teeth off! during this i also made a mandral(sp?) bent 2.5" turbo back exhaust with high flow cat and cherry bomb muffler...with my new found power i found stock brakes were horrible... so on with the aspire brakes... and it was way too tall so on lowering springs it went... it lasted a month or so running 14.2's with a slipping clutch... but since the trans was out any ways the g25mr went on... along with a new capri pressure plate an 1.8V6 mx3 disc... with everything out already i also used this time to install my mitsu sterion intercooler...then it was to a 13.8... then i replaced the stock intake with a 2.5" from vaf to the turbo with the stock air box and also replaced the "funnel" intake with 2.5" pipe... 13.7 @ 14 psi... i found the stock turbo does not like 14psi when you dive a car like you stole it... so 4 turbos later(the one that came on the car, the one off the parts car and 2 as a gift from a local turbo shop) i decided i wanted more. so i built an exhaust manifold out of a old miata header and fitted a 14b tdo5 to it and connected it to my 2.5" exhaust with a custom down pipe i also built. bigger turbo needed bigger intake so i put a 3" adaper on the vaf to a 90* and an ams oil filter with a built in velocity stack in the drivers fender well, as well as 3" to the turbo ending in a velocity stack that goes straight into the inlet, more intake meant more fuel is needed so i put 330cc ford probe GT 2.2T injectors in, i aslo added a 1990 civic sir mid wing to my hatch as well as modified camery/maxima shocks to my suspension, honda prelude seats, rear mounted battery and some 13" enkei wheels. im planning on putting some 16" wheels that i just bought on it very soon, some kind of fuel management system maybe a standalone, as well as cleaning up some of the engine wiring and hose routing to make it a bit more appealing under the hood.

everyone loves my car... i try to race everybody... so far i have beaten:
C6 corvette
a few C5 corvettes
tons of mustangs
have only lost to one honda(my friends h2b swapped hatch low 13sec car)
sti's
evo's
BMW's get really mad when i stomp them
audi's S4's get just about as mad as the BMW guys
ive tried to race people that refuse cause the have "hred of my car and dont wanna lose" im very happy about that... and i think im still in the top 10 fastest festiva's on this forum

so now on with the pics!!!!











the pictures and the wing possible because of this guy

his 90 civic hatch went off a cliff on 10/23/09(he is doin fine now)... so i got my true JDM civic SiR wing off his car... his camera was also in the car when ihe crashed... i found it last weekend still at the bottom of the cliff under the bolder he hit(i was looking for parts for his gsxr600 that were in the car on that night and are still missing)

i took the side moulding off and finnished my top wing...

[Damkid]

Charlie1717's entry

Well Here I go. I finally got some pictures of my Festy!
I guess I will start back when I first got my license. I started out driving a 1997 Mercury Mountaineer V8 5.0 It wasn't my ideal choice but my dad wanted me to have a safe vehicle since I drove my younger brother where he needed to go. So I kept my mountaineer until I was in college then sold it because I was sick of 15MPG and I couldn't afford to come home haha. I ended up selling it for almost 3,000 which was awesome but I ended up giving about 2,500 of it to my dad because he is a realtor (that should explain everything ha) So I got a 1996 plymouth neon with 96,000 miles for 500 bucks. It got the job done and got me to work and back. I couldn't afford to fix the things it needed so I fixed what I could and sold it for 700 6 months later. So I now had 700 bucks and I wasn't really looking for a car. I always checked craigslist for cheap cars though. So one day I saw a festiva drive by and I knew that was my next car. I started researching like crazy. Found this site and knew I wanted a Festiva. So I started searching. I wanted one that didn't need much and for cheap. I eventually found my Festiva. I bought it 3 months ago in Sydney Ohio for $700. Drove it 3 hours home and it cost me less than 10 dollars.

I've always wanted a festiva and now I have one! My girlfriend was ticked because I didn't tell her I got it. Now she loves it. All my friends love it. I've never done a motor swap but I hope that this will be my first. But I can't bring myself to pull out a 93,000 mile stock motor. It's to new!

So here are the facts!
1991 L model
93,000 miles!
4 speed manual

Here is what I've done. I'm poor so I haven't done to much yet but I can't wait for the summer to get some money and fix her up.

I got new seats
New stereo/speakers
Put in escort dome light
Cleaned it 100 times
Repainted all the interior panels
Put 13's on with four brand new tires
Replaced breaks (When I bought it the guy put a nail in the line since one break pad was toast so I only had the one break)
and a tune up

Here are the pictures!













I don't have any before pictures but basically this car was just dirty all the carpet was just dirt brown. The seats were all ripped up and it was a stock stereo with two blown computer speakers sitting in the back seat.

and here are the panels before I painted them


Well there it is! My Festy. Sorry the images aren't the best I used my cell phone.

[Damkid]

skimsucka's entry

Hello all Im RJ a 21 yr old full time electronics engineering student working 2 jobs - Pizza delivery and terrazzo/marble floor restoration

CAR 88 LX
B8-ME(Eurotivas motor)
Cat Delete pipe
traction bar
festy 5spd tranny
suzuki swift 4 puck clutch
stainless oval muffler
mallory inline fuel pump wired to stock efi relay moutned with protege fuel filter mount
sabb single din cup/coin holder in origional radio location
Kicker ds40 to replace all stock speakers
Kicker shallow 10 under passenger seat (Hidden)
Kicker kx 400.1 amp under driver (Hidden)
Jensen vm9411 7in single din dvd ipod flip out
KYBs all around
Ground Control Coilovers
FMS hi durom mounts all around
13 American Racing estrellas wrapped in Summito 195/60/13s
walmart Fog lights
Cruise control
int. wiper/cruise stalk
A/C
Rear wiper
split rear seat
pwr mirror
limo tint all around
Tilt steering
cargo light w/switch
escort dome light
Dash clock


My Festiva story

I became very interested in saving gas and low emissions naturally caring about the environment being a surfer right when gas was sky high I got motivated and started looking into all the small cars out there geos , tracers and such but a Festivas character, open roominess and Mpg were a combo others didn't seem to have . Making my decision on a car I started to look on craigslist eBay classifieds.... nothing. On my way to work one morning I was passing through an intersection and a small car caught my peripherals and I thought no way one right here under my nose. It had only been the second day I was looking for one and I went to work all day thinking about it. I got off and went to the home and found it was an 88lx and left a note at the owners door. I had to go back the next day to try again to contact the owner and they were home a Latin couple that didn't speak much English after debates and figuring things out about the car i came the next day and picked it up for my ripoff price of 700$ I know I rushed it I just wanted a festiva bad ahaha. I brought it home and went through the bucket of bolts and small parts that it came with(just wonderful) the tranny cross member was also hanging and a fuel leak, also I was told a clutch was put in and tranny needed to be bolted back. Anyhow that night figuring out where everything went and doing basic tune up on liquids the car was running at 1:00 am in my garage ! this was only the beginning , I worked on the car for the next month repairing frame rust behind fenders passenger and driver as well as removing the windsheild and installing a new cowel and front seats 4 hrs each of resolve and bissel machine ! I then proceeded to do my first body and paint job with spray paint and it came out great for 45$ as youll see below . Things became much easier after finding FF.com and got me more addicted or should I say infected with the festiva sickness. I had tried to contact some close florida members with no luck, one day i got a pm from Eurotiva asking if i was down to meet up with him at local drag strip i was more then ready to meet another festiva owner . After meeting greg he encouraged me and others to go to FM3 which i was nervous because my car had carb motor with 350,000 miles on it ! As most of you know his encouraging words lead to the successful FL convoy of 8 round trip to FM3. After FM3 and driving gregs car i had my mind set on a swap and dilligently began to search for a swap canidate and i came to the B8-ME for its plug and play no modification bolt in type capability. After months of serching for a complete protege dx with no luck and much frustration talks between me and greg lead to me purchasing his comlete motor tranny clutch set up! this was only one piece to my puzzle because i was swapping a carb car sooooo... greg let me steal the efi "auto" harness wiper tank and efi dash off the betty boop car we scored in miami and i got some here and there pieces froma local junkyard, as well as my inline fuel pump from hofficergrove. Over the past week and a half with work and school I completed my first engine harness swap with no major complications. If you want power and an easy swap B8 all dayy I love my car and get many compliments and looks frequently

Also the latin couple I despise now completely played me I found out and talked to there neighbor that GAVE THEM THE CAR !! ahhhhhh- he had use it to tow behind his Rv and guy before him lived in Melbourne fl and used as dd for couple months and before that my festy was towed behind a school bus for a company that delivered them based in PA , four guys would drive four buses and tow festy behind one and then pile in the festy and drive back to base.

Thanks to all i have bought parts from and or have answered my questions along the way

Eurotiva
Levitan
Hot_Wheels
ejptofast

and every one on FF.com...........................................E njoy all the pics cya all that Sunshine meet











































oops Boat was behind me lol



Before all suspenion stuff





After suspension and B8 swap sorry its dirty no time to wash































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Fuel pump and bracket


Clearence ac compressor and waterpump pulleys


Motor mount





MUFFLER oval














Turbo COMING VERY SOON!

[Flyin4stroke]

aww maaan.

This is too hard.

[pr0nst4r]

Three good candidates. Definitely a tough decision.

[batstiva]

Very tough voting. Best of luck to all!!
BTW Skimsucka, you really should rattle can the underside of that hood.:p

Kidding, 3 sweet rides. :thumbleft:

[skimsucka]

paint and body coming soon getting a quote this week and just got some sweet srt4 seats thanks bat

[MONSOON]

Whew! Tough choice again.

[wybnrml]

The past couple months have been hard to choose which car to pick.

[eurotiva]

Nice cars everybody. RJ that motor looks familiar.

Good Job too all. Tough vote.

[Sparky]

I gotta say, we've got some REAL talent on this site! These last few months have been amazingly tough to pick!

[rallytiva71]

Great rides good luck to all!!

[JPT]

eeny... meeny... miney... moe...

How else are you supposed to choose?

[eurotiva]

^ Pick your favorite color?

[Charlie1717]

Here comes my comeback!
I guess voting for skimsucka didn't help my chances