What have you done to your Festiva today!?

[Gomez]

...till we can get something to cut the bolts on both sides of the shock.

Yeah I did that a couple times. We get used to that in Ohio lol. I didn't have a sawzall at that time so I used a cutoff wheel and a grinder. It SUCKED.

[muleskinner]

Went over to a friends Friday to replace the struts on Blue. Front struts were replaced with no problem, but the rear struts wouldn't come off. The bottom bolts were frozen in the shock so when we were taking the bolts out they stayed in and broke the welds on the nuts. I had to leave Blue at my friends till we can get something to cut the bolts on both sides of the shock.

[muleskinner]

What do you mean rewired the headlight wire? My headlight connector tab broke, so I popped the terminals out of a junkyard connector and my bad one, Dremel wire wheeled them, and popped them back in.
I hope you didn't cut the wire.

When I first got Shadow. The person who owned it before me re-wired it from the battery to a switch he put on the dash. Well I ran the wire back to the switch on the steering column, but didn't fix the connection on the battery.
Well I put in a better connection with an inline fuse the other day.
Sorry I didn't explain that.

[geoacuraisuzu]

Oh and best part is I paid less then $90 for everything lol

[geoacuraisuzu]

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[geoacuraisuzu]

I went to a local junkyard here in El Paso and got an 89 festiva grill, an aspire rear axle, newer valve cover and fuel pressure regulator for my BP and a few other odds and ends plus the speedometer housing I needed for my 82 toyota cressida 20140503_120123.jpg 20140503_110629.jpg

[bravekozak]

What do you mean rewired the headlight wire? My headlight connector tab broke, so I popped the terminals out of a junkyard connector and my bad one, Dremel wire wheeled them, and popped them back in.
I hope you didn't cut the wire.

[muleskinner]

Tuned up Shadow today. New spark plugs, wires, cap, and rotor. It has been stalling out a lot lately & running to low on the idle. It runs like a champ again.

I also re-wired the headlight wire. My Headlights were turning off on there own while I was driving.

[Flyin4stroke]

Put another speedo cable in mine. Skimsucka hooked it up! Thanks Rj.

[Tommychu]

Yeah this thing is just a plastic plate the same size as a Mazda dizzy with a fingertip-sized nub in it for the pickup, and two wires coming out. The holes aren't slotted like DIS Miata sensor either, since timing is 100% computer controlled anyway.

[sketchman]

^Even the Japs used that design. The Miata uses a CAS in the dizzy hole. It outs the same CAS signal as the EFI Festiva dizzy plus another one for the ECU to pick which coil to fire.

EDIT: Sorry. Different design. I assumed.

[Tommychu]

Laughed at the Chris/Gary drama
Then I picked my FE head up from the machine shop. Uuuuugh, labor was only a couple C-notes short of a new one from Kia. Oh well it was still cheaper and now I've got a tiny bit higher CR.
Also, despite having a longitudinal layout and a much bigger engine bay, pulling the head is significantly harder than in a Festiva. The heater pipe runs across the intake side on the Sportage F-block instead of the exhaust side (which like the B is wiiiiide open) and they piled the battery, charcoal can, washer reservoir and main fusebox all into a somewhat small area, which also happens to be the area my arm needs to occupy to get at the lower intake bolts. And access to those are blocked by that heater pipe which is held on by, you guessed it, the very same intake bolts.
At least I'll know my way around this engine really well when I go to pile it into the Festy.
A neat thing I didn't know, these things use the same cam for dizzyless and dizzy ignition, they just get use the pin that would have spun the rotor as a tone ring for the CPS pickup. Every bit as smart and cheap as a Japanese design reverse-engineered by Koreans should be.

[Damkid]

Let it go man, Damkid can't help being a jerk....

Nope I can't, thanks for noticing

[Aaronbrook37]

Sold my old daily driver, which was a bone stock 89 LX Automatic. Driving the B6T full-time again for now.

[defprun]

How do you go about testing the ICM?

I threw mine in the garbage and got a msd blaster coil lol