What have you done to your Festiva today!?

[sketchman]

Ordered these and these for Blue.

For those considering racing steelies, the Circle Racing ones from Summit are available in 4x100 and a 6" width at 12.5lbs and use normal 60 seat lugs instead of the specialty 45s that others use. Also come in a more comfortable backspace/offset (if you want a 6" wheel) than Bassett's do and come out the same price after you add in shipping from Bassett.

Now hopefully somebody in this stuck-in-the-past coal town can balance lug centric wheels.

[TorqueEffect]

Ordered some new Dorman lower control arms from Rockauto. My passenger side one had a bit of play in it.

[navdoc101]

Installed my New Climair Vent visors, Thanks to fordFestiva

[TorqueEffect]

Did a compression test today. Forgot to do WOT when testing the first 3 cylinders. lol but after retesting all of em, I get 150s acrossed the board, 150 being the lowest, and 158 being the highest.

So the engine has good compression.

[bravekozak]

I have no idea which screw to adjust on an EFI. I do know the highest vacuum will give you the highest efficiency and the most power. I use my vacuum gauge to tune under the hood. It's easy to watch as you fine tune. I don't have a vacuum gauge in my car. Once it's tuned, there isn't much reason to look at it very much.

[TorqueEffect]

You are supposed to power tune your car for the highest possible vacuum reading at idle. Start tuning. Set your timing, then adjust your fuel ratio first and see what happens. As long as the vacuum increases, then you are good. If it starts to go down, then stop.

Air/Fuel ratio screw is the screw on the top on the intake correct?

Also I filled up the tank today. With about just under half the tank going to highway driving, I averaged 35.5 MPG.

I also grabbed a compression tester from work and will be doing that tomorrow since I have never tested this engine yet.

[bravekozak]

You are supposed to power tune your car for the highest possible vacuum reading at idle. Start tuning. Set your timing, then adjust your fuel ratio first and see what happens. As long as the vacuum increases, then you are good. If it starts to go down, then stop.

[TorqueEffect]

I now noticed something else. During the first 5 min of driving after a cold start, there is no jumpy needle at all, but still low readings on idle, about 12 inches of vacuum. Could it be timing? I still haven't timed the engine since changing the water pump and timing belt.

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[TorqueEffect]

I do have a thick walled, non-collapsable hose, it came with the gauge.

[bravekozak]

You need thick-walled, non-collapsable hose that is designed for vacuum. Ferrules would be required for a good connection.

[TorqueEffect]

Torque...how did you route your air line? i messed mine up and it just ran lower than normal going up and down some as the nylon kinked. its an autometer, it didnt do what yours does at all.

I passed it through next to the speedo cable.

[getnpsi]

Torque...how did you route your air line? i messed mine up and it just ran lower than normal going up and down some as the nylon kinked. its an autometer, it didnt do what yours does at all.

[Gomez]

Almost got the engine tranny pulled. gettin close to mocking up some mounts.

[scitzz]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPVVFryvhAA

Sorry for the shaky camera.

Oh, one of THOSE gauges! LOL! I am betting it needs to be returned.

I was thinking along the lines of one of these, which wouldn't be bad to calibrate yours...

http://www.secondchancegarage.com/public/186.cfm

[jawbraeka]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPVVFryvhAA

Sorry for the shaky camera.

You could do a harlem shake video for this gauge.

sent from the depths of hell.