What have you done to your Festiva today!?

[bravekozak]

Wear the gloves you were supposed to wear for painting, to Thanksgiving dinner. That way they won't see your hands. Buy a mechanic's worksuit on eBay like me.

[TorqueEffect]

Painted the car below the side trim with truck bed coating, and it looks pretty damn good if I do say so myself.
Also painted the rear bumper glossy black because the old bumper specific matte paint peeled off in allot of places.

Pics to come after I paint the front bumper. Also learned not to paint big things in the cold, the paint will run like a mofo, luckily the runs are not to bad, was mostly able to hide them with another coat over top.

I Also ruined my jacket, and possibly a pair of pants. I didn't realize how messy that truck bed coating is. Also I am going to be showing up to thanksgiving dinner with allot of it on my hands because I can't get it out.

[sc72]

sc72, your box is full. Gimme a little room........

Ok i'll get on it right away.

[bravekozak]

Installed a set of Moog Aspire tie rod ends.
Normally $48 each. I got two for a whole lot less.

[Nerd Racing]

Truck horn FTW.

Dual horns like on my 64 Cuda! Almost sounds like a train.

[DriverOne]

added a louder horn to Skippy saturday, now he sounds angry when the horn blows, not happy (it's a good thing).

Truck horn FTW.

[FestYboy]

added a louder horn to Skippy saturday, now he sounds angry when the horn blows, not happy (it's a good thing).

[greywolf200]

sc72, your box is full. Gimme a little room........

[scitzz]

Running around outside the asylum again with my tappy talky appy

[TorqueEffect]

Did you reverse flush the heater core to ensure it isn't partially blocked?

Nah, I will have to do that. Luckily I have new hose clamps on there, so it would be a pain getting them off.

[bravekozak]

I have the fourth one to make the set complete.

[greywolf200]

I forgot to mention, when I was at the Winston-Salem PAP yesterday scoring parts, the '93 Festiva has 3 OE 13" alloys with caps. Someone score them before they're scrapped.

[bravekozak]

Did you reverse flush the heater core to ensure it isn't partially blocked?

[getnpsi]

You should get one of those laser guided temp scanners from harbor freight. For giggles shoot the two hoses on your firewall and compare. If those arent new maybe they are gunked up?

[TorqueEffect]

Did you get a two stage thermostat Torque?

I had a two stage stat meant for a 323, didn't make a bit of difference.

I have tried like 4 different stats, fixed the leak on the freeze plug, have flushed the cooling system with Cascade, pulled out the dash to clean the heatercore. (should have nothing to do with warm-up times, but I thought it should be cleaned anyway.)