May get a festiva again.

[Americanclassicg]

Hi there. I joined here a good while back when I was planning on getting a festiva. Ended up buying something else, (71 VW beetle) but I in the market for a car again. Considering a festiva.

My question is are there any ways to make them a little peppier without swapping engines? It will be my DD so I dont want to do anything quite that major.

Thanks for looking.

[resuwrecked]

i turbocharged the 1.3 in two festivas, that made the stock engine peppier.

You can make sure its all tuned up right, get a msd box, and make a cold air intake.

Not much to do to the b3 to give it much pep.

[sasquatch]

cold air intake, header (if you can find one, or make one), fms cam, maby an aspire trans swap... and if you want a bit more pep at times but not all the time maby some nitrous... but i dont think thats a good idea lol...

[Americanclassicg]

Kinda what I figured. Thanks.

[JPT]

Bump the timing up by 5 degrees, Get some cold (outside the engine compartment) air to the motor and add a low restriction exhaust. You'll need to run higher octane gas.

An Aspire transmission will definitely make the car accelerate better, but will cost about 2 MPG and first gear will be really short.