Voting For April FOTM

[Damkid]

Sorry for being a couple days late starting the voting for April FOTM, i've forgotten with everything i have going on at the moment around home

This month we have a record number of entries making the total number of 8 entries!! way to go guys thats what we like to see, good competition!!

the 8 entries are from:

kartracer46
mikeycar500
92festie
Joe_Dirt
perucho
slacka_6
darrenryall
1988redfordfestiva


Here are all the entries again starting with kartracer46

Ok, I didn't make March so maybe April? Here are the most recent pics. If not I will try another entry after the weather warms up and I can get my paint job completed. Then I will have a unique tiva. Sorry, it's not a modded up tiva yet. But it will look decent by october for the fall meet.

[Damkid]

mikeycar500's entry

ok so the story well frist thing this is now my 4th festiva.
my frist one was my frict car i payed 250 for it and it was a roll over.
so me and my dad worked on the car and drank booze every weekend till it was done. i drov that car for 4 years was the most fun i had in a car.
the 2 festiva was a friend ov mines i showed up a day bfor he was going to scrap it so got it for 110. but it was to bad to put on the road could not get the wheel studs out.so that ended up being a track car where ppl could not bleave how good that little car did and got the name redneck racecar lol.
my 3 festiva is the one i am driving now (the one in the pics)it aint pretty right now but it is cheap 250 cheap and all it needed was a cluch.
and the new on number 4 i payed more for it then the one i drive but it is in awsome shape and i hope to do a motor swap to that one at sometime.
anyway hope u like my little putt putt
thanks mike





sorry about all the post boxes but i had to show u guys this.
this is the key to my car. i had a friend make it up and it looks like i stole the car. it is just a kool little, i guess u could call it a upgrade lol
enjoy

[Damkid]

92festie's entry

ok well heres my entrie. I got this car for $1500 (too much IMHO, but i needed a car). Virtually rust free. It is an auto but will be a 5 spd in the very near future. I'm doing a B8 swap, along with a clutch swap, to it at the moment. I got the B8 out of a Mazda Protege, I will be using the tranny from the Protege as well. Thats about it for now, so hopefully you guys like it!!



thanks

tony







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[Damkid]

Joe_Dirt's entry

Hey why not!
1991 L 5 speed

I got this car through a buddy of mine.He purchased it to do a B6-me swap i talked him out of it and eventually obtained the car from him with alot of haggling back and forth I got it for 500.00 SO i brought it home! It's had a rough life possibly been a previous swap car at one point in the past It used to have a tach and pillar gauges as evidenced by drilled holes in the pillar and dash would be interesting to know its history.It feels awfull quick for a 62 h/p motor so who knows what has been done internal. got a few "kills" under it's belt havent been outran yet absolute blast to drive

My goal
To have a fun,good gas mileage car to commute in possibly autoX in the future .

Current Mods
2" full exhaust w/no cat and "fart can"
Cone air filter,air tube baffle removed
syntheic oil
bumped timing,indexed and back clipped NGK plugs
"ebay 5" tach"
rear seat removed
Shifter linkage modded
APC civic short shifter

Future plans
B8 swap
Coil overs
suspension mods

[Damkid]

perucho's entry

Here it goes: So I bought this 92 GL with 173k miles on the clock locally for $400. The previous owner had problems with the engine overheating and didn't want to try to fix it. He also tried to smog it and it failed (which he also failed to tell me). Anyway, replaced the radiator and no more overheating! Changed the plugs, wires, cap and rotor and passed smog. So I had a pretty clean Festiva running and registered for under $600. The idea was to have a daily driver that looked cool as was fun to drive to keep the "better" cars in the garage. Since then I've tried to put as little money into fixing it as possible. I replaced the gauge cluster with an orange tach gauge and also replaced the a/c-heater controls face with an orange one. The steering wheel was replaced with a new Momo Pilota 2 that I had laying in the garage from a previous project that was never finished. The stereo was replaced with an Alpine headunit with ipod controls, an Eclipse 5 channel amp, Focal 3-way components in front, Focal 2-way components in back, and an 8" kicker sub (had all that stuff too so no money spent there either). I found a pair of very clean Prelude seats on CL for $40 and what a difference! If anyone wants stock seats in very good condition, let me know I also got a center console to dress it up a bit.
The struts are KYB GR2s with Aspire springs in front with 2 coils cut off, and the rear springs are FMS reds. The front and rear brakes came from an automatic Aspire including the trailing arm. The wheels are American Racing AR24s painted bronze. And the spoiler was gracefully sold to me by someone that got it a local junkyard probably 2 minutes before I got there (he was still trying to remove it from the hatch when we met). I also have a BP that I'm hoping to rebuild soon to replace the 1.3. Finally, the side decals came off a 1974 Celica GT project that I got bored with and had these stickers left. Anyway, here are some photos showing some of the progression:

The next day I got it, after replacing the head unit:











New steering wheel and gauge cluster:




Front speakers and amp:




Installing the rear speakers:




Waves Maxxbass controller:




Installing the front speakers:




Cut the springs and painted the steelies:






Picking up the BP:




New wheels, tires, and old crusty decals





Prelude seats:




And finally, a stock spoiler:





Hope you like it!

[Damkid]

slacka_6's entry

This is my 93 Festiva L 120k my daily driver!

well lets see got my car about a year ago with 98k on it for $150 running has rebuilt and plainned head because previous owner stripped out three outta four spark plug holes! traded a buddy a tool cart and the $150! drives great! its so much fun to drive! sounds good too with the flowmaster and 2.25" exhaust!

for a bit more of a story i'll tell you about the planned upgrades. full aspire brake swap, aspire swaybar with prothane red bushings, new festy cv shafts, aspire lower control arms, jetta mkiii 14" five stars with falken ziex 512 185/60/R14, kyb gr2 struts all around civic dropzone coilovers springs with adjusters, interior all black even carpet, foil backed auto insulation and rubberized undercoating the whole inside under the trim and carpet and such, tint all three rear windows, new fenders and hood, now for the paint scuffed and the rott fixed primered and blocked out so its smooth, everything above the bottom of the window painted jet black and the rest of the car paint with urathane base coat clear coat pewter silver metallic! paint the bumpers and the rims black as well...
and after i get a truck or if i find a deal a turbo motor to liven it up a bit.. not sure which one yet nothin to radical bpt or b6t... use to have a lancer ralliart and a subaru wrx turbo man i miss those turbo pulls! love workin on cars, auto tech by trade! turbo swap +tranny should be within the realm of my abillity! lol

[Damkid]

darrenryall's entry

I'll give it a go as well, posted this all up for March, and then noticed that March's was over.

This is the first shot I think I took every of the car... we'll use this as the starting point..


Had the Festiva for about 7 weeks now, and she was pressed into DD status before she was really ready. Still haven't gotten a name for the car, but I'm narrowing down towards "Farmstiva" or "Stiv" based off what's left of the Festiva decal I have still..


The car is a "farmer's field special" where the car had lived for about two years. Three previous owners ago appeared to be a mom or something, then a local guy bought (or got) the car, who gave it to his brother-in-law to fix up for his wife. Had a five speed in it originally I believe, but it's sort of been converted over to auto by him because the wife doesn't do standard. In the end, she decided not to drive Festiva either, so the plywood "For SAle" sign went up.

Saw her at the same time as the station wagon, and made arrangements to get both, with the Festiva being eyed as a DD for me for the 90 mile commute. Became imperative to drive it when the brakes failed on my minivan (and it got traded in towards the new truck for the wife) and the station wagon came off the road.

Came with a few quirks (my dash is in metric btw so I'm doing just below 60mph on a flat road with no traffic, and that is the key from the ignition.. fixed now):


Turns out that the key I got for the car was for a Suburu, and when the lock managed to get locked, all of a sudden I couldn't drive the car. Got a new one cut. Drivers side window was so bound up that the handle crank nub is busted off.. passengers side is okay.

The car doesn't like cold temperatures very much.. and I'm getting surging and issues when the temp gauge drops below minimum normal range. But I coax it to and from work in a 180km/111 mile daily commute.

Until I can get the drivers side lock graphited, I'm still using the farmers latch to keep the door locked in the city..


Missing the radio


But it's starting to clean up well!



plus the new Red LED tailights are in..


So there you go.. my work in progress..

[Damkid]

1988redfordfestiva's entry

hi i would like to enter but my car is a work in progress

here are some pics of before and after right now its gona get repainted but leaving the top red and painting the bottom dark blue













well the main thing i have done to this car was rebuilding the engine new head gasket and new exhaust cut the glass pack and replaced with a red after market has a new clutch new heater core new fan and sensors interiour missing radio but all new speakers body rot driver side door and bootom just finished the repairs on the driverside now fixing the passanger side well hope that enough car has 125,000 orignal miles would like to drive itt but still need to hook up 5 vaccum lines then i can see if it drives nice also has all new brakes and front axles plus rims where painted flame red found a can of the paint used on some of the cat even the gas cap was painted red with some fire flame plastic stickers...

[bhazard]

If only I could just get mine done... maybe May.

[darrenryall]

Mine's not nearly done at all... it's a WIP. Have my eye on some upgrades for it and some basic fixes (radio).

Should've entered anyways.

[batstiva]

Hmmm. Interesting field this month. I'll be kind of curious how all of these looks (and run) by this time next year. Kind of liking the fact that the work in progress cars are being entered.

[festymick]

Voted! Some nice rides this month!

[Damkid]

Kind of liking the fact that the work in progress cars are being entered.

Same here!!

[NovaSS]

Hmmm. Interesting field this month. I'll be kind of curious how all of these looks (and run) by this time next year. Kind of liking the fact that the work in progress cars are being entered.

If you drive a festiva its always a work in progress !

[wybnrml]

Alot of good entries this month.