Accepting Entries For July FOTM

[phyaz91]

trying to put together a post for this...

[89newb]

Monstiva's Entry for Team White

I have never heard about festiva's untill a couple months ago. My father in law was doing an engine rebuild on my wifes cousins festiva. After this she had beat it into the ground. It ended up on my father in laws yard once again and sat for a year and a half. Recently he had made me an offer. Money grew tight and to make a long story short we had moved in with my wifes parents again. I was driving a 1998 Chevy Blazer from Ickesburg to York everyday for work. For people unfirmiliar with Pennsylvania, thats about 120 miles a day and in the Blazer, a quarter tank of gas a day. He new somebody that only ever stayed local and was in desperate need of a vehicle so the deal was that I gave them my blazer and he'd give me the festiva. I was scepticle at first but the gas efficiency has proved to be great.

It took a little time to get used to the manual steering but I have fell in love with this festiva and now im working on making it my own. Before it could be mine the head gaskets, head bolts, intake gasket, valve cover gaskets, actually every gasket on the motor needed to be replaced. This was done and it was legal and driveable. Every time I got in it more ideas kept crossing my head so I joined FordFestiva.com to learn more. Now, with the help and ideas from all of you, my Festiva projects has begun.

It has been a long coming but I had hit a huge speed bump with her. I did a valve cover gasket and cam seal gasket about 2.5 months ago and she hasnt ran yet. Festyboy and I covered almost everything. Now that shes time she cranks good and wants to start. sometimes monstiva will start but shut off with much agility. fuel pumps are coming from Hofficergrover. and hopefully this will get her running.

I really cant express my love for this car in words so here is some pics of what i have done and the LITTLE progress made since February.

the day i knew she was mine
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dirty engine bay


bad, ugly concept for paint


dash torn out for paint


no backseat


pile of interior parts for paint


dash for paint


back seat with painted trim


redneck cup holder lol


DR side paint


PS side paint


even the littliest details


I NOW PRESENT TO YOU FOR TEAM WHITE!

[phyaz91]

Aforcetiva

OKAY so here goes nothing.It all began in 2009 when I sold my 99 eclipse to my sis.(insurance for a n/a eclipse is insane when your 18) and went carless for almost a year.after searching and searching I could find anything in my budget (not MUCH) while still being good on gas and not looking too bad… so I then started looking for good milage and didn’t care for looks to much….. R.J. skimsucka told me about his festiva(R.I.P. Black 88LX). After riding in his I decided why not try it… so we immediately proceded to look for my future car…..searching craigslist I found my future festy red 91 L With no rust. But a bad tranny for $275(same as 1 insurance payment for my clipse) seemed like a good price to me…it was 3 hrs away… but that didn’t matter the only problem was getting a dolly to get it back home…. Finally I dropped the dough to rent one from uhaul and the next weekend I found myself and R.J.’s Brother riding in my friends,dads tundra across state to pick up my future festy. When we got to Inverness fl… the car was on a full trailor. The guy said he got the car from the original owners widow… he had passed away and she just signed the title over to him. Walking around the car it seemed in good visual shape.. and we asked him if he would start it up… he then got the keys and popped the hood and of course to my surprise he turned it over and then engine came to life… with a nice quiet purr.
And with a smile I handed over $280 dollars and he handed me the title. I actually was able to drive the car up the street… but the throwout bearing was bad… and the tranny made a crazy grinding noise and 4th gear was nonexistent….



3 hrs later I was unloading it in my driveway…. And immediately started washing and clearing the inside of debris.. then began the search for a tranny…. But that didn’t last long as r.j. knew there were 2 festy’s at a local jy… took me a while with my limited tools to pull said tranny …but soon thereafter I was putting the tranny in……the front crossmember nut heads spun so I did the through bolt mod. And soon I had a running driving festy….


JY Tranny



The front seats were torn…

Found a replacement for those from a 2009 Hyundai Tiburon 
Custom seat brackets and this is the turnout

Car didn’t have a radio so for $200

20%tint

30k HID kit ….aimed them low and right so im not blindin everybody….

After rolling steelies for a month I bought alloys off rj for 100 then I kept getting bubbles in tires…. So I found these…

In tampa and on the trip to rescue r.j.’s $75 dollar festy we snatched em up… dual pattern 13”
i had a sloppy shifter... so we took that all apart and found some bronzeoil bushing at homedepot that needed slight cutting and reaming to fit while we had it apart we cut underneath the pivot ball of the shifterand welded to lengthen under that to basically make a STS .. cant seem to find those pictures
I also bought an untested dealer a/c system off of sandm49 cleaned all the parts installed it with all new seals and charged it and click the compressor came on and the air blew cold 
Ive replaced all the bearings. Both axles the front brakes brake booster. Crank seal.
Belt, plugs, wires. Cleaned the rotor. Added a tach cluster that was only off by 3k .
CAI style air filter
And done tons of oil changes and cleared the cooling system.
Also added these


Removed the back seat and added 2 kicker comp 12’s for a little boom boom…
Ive now added a sticker to kinda give it personality… since im currently awaiting my ship date to leave for basic training for the AirForce

As she sits now...nice and lowwww


Tint looks nice and dark


Glamour shot


eventually funds willng i plan a B6t swap with 14" rims and up the boost a little

I DUB THEEE
AFORCETIVA

[Larry Hampton]

So I have 5 days to find a white one?!? Sheesh!!!

[ladyblaster]

Hello All,

Here is my white '91 GL auto. I have driven a festiva for a long time.The teachers at my sons school use to call it a clown car because when they thought no more kids where getting out of it three more kids would . but still i didnt really fall in love with these little cars until i went to my first meet in ohio . after that i was hooked . We bought her in 2009 with a blown engine and in desperate need of TLC. She was in the sticks , near the N.C & Tenn. border with no cell phone service, no gps , and no road signs .But when i saw her I had to have her .Body was in good shape , interior was in bad need of lovinging and cleaning ..
We started by putting a used engine in it ,and cleaning and trying to get it fine tuned . after that we put a new muffler on it . Then we did an aspire swap and put ford escort rims on it .Then a spoiler and changed out the front turner signal covers with clear ones and the we put smothie brake lights on it and power mirrors . I have a push start button installed and Thanks to bebandit, I rewired my tack light so that no it is neon blue straight light .
I started with painting trim pieces and then I customized my door panels by tracing out my design and then stitching it . then I added seat covers. .I 'am in the process of rebuilding a b6 engine to be put in soon . Also drawing up designs for the paint . I have side skirts but havent been able to put them on yet .... We just finished making the cover plate for the back of the car . and Iam in so its the process of customizing my center console
The funniest time i remember is when , and my hubby meet after work to go see a movie both of our cars looked just alike. But his has a turbo engine and is really fast I had a ediot riding my bumper and bright lighting me ,He refused to go around me or back off. So will had me come around him and head home , The guy started riding his bumper and bright lighting him ,when i was far enough away will gunned it and left the Honda sitting . I loved it ....I love it when someone pulls up and starts laughing and then when the light turns green and we leave them at the light they won't pull up next to us again. I guess they had second thoughts of laughing at our little cars.


escort rims going on it.
new blue light just installed
me and my car at madness last year
ol glory at nc meet .

[Zanzer]

^^ I think your Photobucket account is still being difficult

[ladyblaster]

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^^ I think your Photobucket account is still being difficult

i agree i just sen the photos to one the adm. maybe he will have better luck

[Zanzer]

I you want, you can send them to me and I'll host them on my account. I have tons of pics and they're all still working fine.

[freshtiva]

Very patriotic July entry ladyblaster !! :salute::salute:

[resuwrecked]

Very patriotic July entry ladyblaster !! :salute::salute:

I agree. Can I paint your car at the madness meet? Lol. I have a good idea...

[kumalaba]

nice

[TaylorDFW]

Red, White, and Blue

Drooool...

drooldrooldrooldrooldrooldrooldrooldrooldrooldrool drool

[ladyblaster]

I agree. Can I paint your car at the madness meet? Lol. I have a good idea...

LOVE IT
is this your festiva ? I like the design alot i just want the top blue with stars too . and darker blue .. let me know how much you'll charge me and what kind and how much paint you'll need . LOL

[resuwrecked]

I did it for fotm last july. Its just krylon spraypaint but it turned out really well. Ended up costing around $60 and 5-6 hours lol. You buy the paint and I'll take care of the rest haha.

[ladyblaster]

I did it for fotm last july. Its just krylon spraypaint but it turned out really well. Ended up costing around $60 and 5-6 hours lol. You buy the paint and I'll take care of the rest haha.

how many cans of each do i need and for spray paint you kicked butt heheh