casper

[hamburglar]

So I know casper has quite a history in the festiva world. I was wondering what previous owners are on the forum that used to own the little guy?
I know Eurostiva (duh)
TominMO

I would like to contact everyone that used to own casper and see what they did and problems that they had with the car while owning it.

[Pu241]

I think if your going to ask for information, its only fair that we do the same.

Starting with your location.

You can add your location to your profile as below:
Go to User CP (top of the Page in the blue bar)
Control Panel(left side of screen)
Edit Profile-scroll to bottom of page to location.

Previous Casper owners:
Eurotiva
TominMO
SimonTuffguy
DJ
Prior to this the vehicle was not named Casper and might have been owned by a person in New Mexico, IIRC.

[eurotiva]

When you wash it you can see (word?) auto parts down the side under the rear windows.

[hamburglar]

well i want to take casper and start autocrossing with it.
I wanted a full parts list if possible. I know the ad that euro had up, but I wanted to see everything about the car. Im taking it to a friend and getting it tuned this summer (if he can squeeze any more out of the car) and getting the little quirks the car has worked out

[eurotiva]

^ you can put some timing back into it. I forgot to do that after I un-installed the nitrous. You should be able to advance it about 4-5 degrees.

[SimonTuffGuy]

I owned it after DJ passed away... DJ bought it from the original guy that built it on the forums. You can search and find it with the right keywords in the F/S section. The original owner had it built by a shop and was pretty rough on it.

When I had it... I didn't do all that much to it. At least, nothing that went along when Tom bought it.

I had HID's in, full bodykit, Tenzo racing seats and harnesses, strut bar, etc, etc.... A lot of that came off in the mix of going back to a stock, sleeper look, and then I sold it to Tom.

Unfortunately, when I got it from DJ's wife, she couldn't find the folder of receipts and stuff that DJ got from the original owner. I know he said he had almost $1500 in receipts for engine work in it.

[eurotiva]

It now has a suzuki swift (ACT) 4 puck, sprung hub clutch with modified flywheel.

[25Horseplay]

Prior to this the vehicle was not named Casper and might have been owned by a person in New Mexico, IIRC.

Arizona.

[mattswabb]

I doubt it can be searched in the FS section. It doesn't look like they go back that far. The original owner was from Arizona or New Mexico. I tried to search but can't find the threads.

[mattswabb]

found him:

http://www.fordfestiva.com/forums/member.php?u=5384

[SimonTuffGuy]

Thanks Matt. Looks like that FS thread was purged. Sorry.....

If you find MY post in the FS thread, it posts a lot of the specs from when I had it.