What did you do to your Festiva this week?

[festymick]

Drove it out of the garage and worked a little on the interior.
Feels so much nicer to drive it with seats instead of an upturned empty bucket!!!!

[boostiva]

dynoed it, changed the exhaust camshaft, dynoed it, then weighed it

[quaddawg]

dynoed it, changed the exhaust camshaft, dynoed it, then weighed it

RESULTS!!!!

[quaddawg]

Skeeter... did you just tie in the tops of the rear shocks? Don't you think you should tie in the towers?... I want to make one too, but haven't totally decided how to do it yet...

[deathegg]

Just tracked down a weird rattle coming from the cargo area, I think it was just the spare tire not bolted down correctly.. we'll see when I drive it tomorrrow.

Hey Skeeters_Keeper......what wheels and tires do you have on your car? And a related question, is the suspension stock or the aspire conversion?

[KingFish]

Finished body work on right f/fender./ Painted both outside door handles ( mirrors to follow)/ failed at tinting windows/
This week I will install new LCA's and inner and outer tie rods(hopefully, cuz i bought the wrong ones EDIT:they are the wrong ones and will not work darn) new pads and final reassembly and then out to the shop to be aligned.

[festyxfi]

Installed new speakers. Bolted on the roof rack. Switched over to summer tires, then gave it a big wet, sloppy kiss for giving me 45mpg...

My little carby!

Brenton

[ivsito]

I just replaced my snapped e-brake with a new one, and put on my new rear brake shoes with new spring kit from autozone.

[b8kedbeans]

Picked up virtually new tires from the pick and pull, installed them. Thought I had a bad tie rod end due to massive steering shake and tire wear at 60mph but tracked down and fixed the problem which turned out to be a loose bolt on the steering column shaft where it meets the steering rack (under the big rubber boot). Changed the oil after running 3k miles with motor-rx flush. Degreased the engine and tested out the recommendation of no touch tire cleaner/shine as a cosmetic engine bay treatment - I am not convinced that it is worth the expense and/or good for the components, belts and hoses FWIW.

[gdawgs]

Added a quart of oil again this week. But who hasn't.

Me. In the 300,000 + miles I've logged in Festivas, I have never had to add oil between oil changes.

As far as what I've done. I drove mine. And I need to put gas in it today.

[packrat427]

Just drove it everyday ..and used it as a pick up truck .

But I did use it to haul home a new pre hung steel door and a new screen door , and some brick molding and 15 pieces of 10 ft. long interior trim .

I did get a bunch of looks and laughs with that , driving home with the hatch open and the doors hanging out the back . :lol:

[skeeters_keeper]

Quad - I just tied in to the top of the struts. I've seen others do this, not sure what the pro's/cons are, but it only took me like 20mins to make. After a test drive i took it off b/c it was rattling somewhere in the rear, but it wasn't the bar, something is wrong on the drivers side rear, it sits lower than the right even though i have the adjustor's set at the same height. I think maybe the frame is bent a little there (was in a rear end accident sometime before i got it), so i'm going to adjust it up a little on that side when i have time and see if the rattle goes away.

Deathegg - i have stock aspire steel wheels (13") with 175/70/13 all seasons. Aspire brake swap, coilovers lowered about 1-1.25" in the front and raised about .25-.5" in the rear, when i cut the perches off the rear struts (i didn't want to do that till i was sure i was happy w/ the coilovers) i'll bring the rear down about an inch so it doesn't have as much of a stance.

[festivaWES]

I haven't done anythign to mine in quite a while....i have just been buying new parts left and right. I really need a 60 gallon or more air compressor. My dads won't keep up with my new IR DA.

[FestYboy]

bought another one and hoping for 2 more which would bring the total to 6

Nate, where'd you get your coil adjusters? and what size/rate are those springs?

[skeeters_keeper]

Festy - everything (springs, bodys, KYB's) were bought on e-bay.

springs are 150/125lb, 10" long. i got the adjustors in a kit someone was selling for .01 +25 SH, i bougth the kit (with springs) just to use the adjustors, the springs that came w/ teh kit are 6" 500/400 springs.

I'll post a thread w/ pics and info sometime next week i hope when i have a lil more time.