I've got it!

[crazyrog17]

Or...take a trip to cali and pick up a complete set of doors and hatch with no rust! That would also take care of most of the flowers

That sounds like an awesome idea! Maybe a few are tolerable...

Here is a link for a center cap
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Ford-...Q5fAccessories

Thanks, I appreciate that! I think I'll press my luck at the junkyard or hope for a better deal.

[drddan]

You look so happy you got that car! Look at the smile on your face! Ha ha!

Haha, I just can't keep them. They lower my testosterone level.

lol yeah, they gotta go.

[htchbck]

Thanks, I appreciate that! I think I'll press my luck at the junkyard or hope for a better deal.

PM sent.

[crazyrog17]

You look so happy you got that car! Look at the smile on your face! Ha ha!.

Hahaha, my mom was laughing too hard at the flowers so I was getting impatient and put on an extra cheesy smile :cheese:

[bravekozak]

Fom

Enter it in Festiva of the month with the flowers and see if it wins. You'll have my vote for sure!

[crazyrog17]

I looked over the whole car today. A little more rust than I'd noticed before. It's starting in front of the driver's rear wheel. There's a rusty ding in the driver's fender as well.

A lot of the car is just plain amazing. It's so simple, like an oversized go-kart, haha. I like that.

I found the jack and spare tire in good condition in the back. Out of place and surely used a few times but it's there with the carpet panel on top.

I'm missing the decklid from the hatch. I can see wear markings indicating that it had one at some point. Maybe I can find one soon, but as I understand, they're kind of rare too.

As I found out yesterday, I've got 50/50 split folding rear seats, matching front seats and door panels from an 88-89 LX. They're cloth/vynil and in pretty decent shape. I remembered about the fold totally flat trick and tried it. Pretty cool, but it doesn't look too comfortable to sleep on, haha. It'd be great for long cargo.

The seat belts are worn and disgusting. The driver's side belt has frayed stitches at the automatic track end. The passenger's side is held in with a knot at that point. I'll need new ones soon.

Then I checked under the hood. I put the intake back together and looked through all of the wiring and hoses to check for shorts and leaks. The timing belt is really oily and previously flung oil onto the hood above it. The timing cover is in the back seat. Otherwise, everything looks pretty good. Kind of messy and a bit zip-tie happy from the P.O. but I decided to see if I could start her up.

I cranked it and it turned over and gave me a put-put. Cool!

Cranked it and gave it a little gas and she shook to life. It really seems like a timing issue so I'm going to have to look up a timing belt how-to. The distributor, cap, rotor, wires and coil all appear newer and fine but that belt was pretty easy to move side to side with my fingers. I'll have to clean it all up and get a new belt in there.

Too bad it's 20 some degrees out there! I'd be knee deep in grease by now if it was nice out.

[Safety Guy]

Best to get a shop manual (any from 1990 to 1993 will do fine covering FI Festivas) or at least a Haynes manual while you wait out the cold.

Karl

[blkfordsedan]

DUDE FLOWER POWER dont get rid of the flowers they rock ( this coming from the guy in the CAMO LOOKS LIKE A TANK FESTIVA ) ya gotta be different an have fun with it

X2 Leave the flowers and swap in a B6T. The only thing more embarrassing to a Ricer than getting smoked by a Festiva is by a Festiva with flowers on it. Just tell them they were out of the oriental dragon vinyl set so they subbed in the flower set.

[stdsmt22]

sure thing... flowers gotta go bro. I say go with the BP turbo and a nice flame job. Talk about a mancart. yahoooooo

[Safety Guy]

That's it...just add some flames to the flowers!

FLAMING DAISIES!

Karl

[mattman]

i think flaming flowers adds like 20 HP

[crazyrog17]

:flower: FLAMING DASIES!

Hahaha, we'll see...

[Charlie1717]

Not gonna lie, B6t Flaming daisies, pretty freaking sweet. Talk about a sleeper!

[TominMO]

keep the "love" on the rear glass..

Yeah, and add some kittens and bunnies!!!

And as for the rear-seat trick being comfortable, it is very comfortable. I put some pillows along the seats to even everything out, and slept very well in a sleeping bag.

[crazyrog17]

Found a timing belt how to.

http://www.fordfestiva.com/forums/showthread.php?t=210

I'm going to try it tomorrow with the existing belt to see if I can even get it running right. If so, I'll clean it all up and install a new belt.

The P.O. took off the timing belt and pulleys already so I can start at step 9, hahaha.