What have you done to your Festiva today!?

[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.)

[defprun]

Did you get a two stage thermostat Torque?

[90fastiva]

mine seems to have instant heat.. I thought this was weird

[TorqueEffect]

Drove it to work, and back, getting real tired of freezing to death before the heater starts to work.

Seriously I have tried everything, these cars just have the absolute worst warm up time I have every seen in a car. A 5 mile drive though stop and go traffic should have the temps up further than the lowest mark of the normal range.

[navdoc101]

Better lay off those wheaties before your next wheel swap.

I guess. I have/had the same studs on all 4 of my stock wheels. Has to be a bad batch.

[Flyin4stroke]

Better lay off those wheaties before your next wheel swap.

[navdoc101]

I bought studs to replace the lug-studs on the Aspire swap on the front suspensoin. As I was tightning the lug nuts I snapped one of the studs. I was useing my hands & a lug wench. Bought a butane tourch & Reverse drellbits/broken bolt removal set. Removed it today & put the Lugnut back, & broke another stud. Remove it & the other 2 studs, & replaced them all with the oem lugstuds. I'm 65 & not a weight lifter & I broke both of these by hand, Didn't use air wrench & was not useing my feet/legs to tighten them. The studs were from EMPI & were for off road raceing. I had used them before with no problrms. They seemed to be hollow, maybe miscased. I'll return them Monday to the VW Buggy shop. Be careful out there, it would hve been fun if they had snapped as I was zipping around a courner.

[greywolf200]

Visited my local PAP and saved some Festi parts from the crusher. A couple of headlights, a tilt column w/inter-wipers and cruise control, a hatch with heated glass and wiper, a disty, thermostat housing, 2 gray-2 tan rear speaker housings, and a really nice B3 head off a '93. Don't need the head, but figured someone would. Be on the lookout, I've got to sell some stuff to pay for this.

[scitzz]

Ehrmagherd! What is the compression on those?

[Chobobulous]

It's obviously an awesome shot glass for that crown. Look it even has a handle and a convenient place to drink from.

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[Hot_Wheels]

Are those stock b6t pistons? Thet look really dished. My 9.5/1 has no dish just valve pocketts.

[Advancedynamix]

[frankenfester]

I founded the spacer!! It was middle of the crappy bearing peaces.
Now I rechanged teh bearing, and also right side.

But now just need to know the torque for hubnut... Tried to use the search, but can't find there, too much different topics & posts...

As far as I remember the torque for the front is 120-145pounds.
I just usually tighten them with an air gun and then turn the rotor while the cars out of gear to set the bearing in place then tighten it with a 24" bar with the weight of my front arm and partial body weight. I don't ever stake them so I can reuse them. But they'll stay on with the air gun only.

-James

[Gomez]

There are a couple ways to get a small camber adjustment other than with the tophat. As with caster too. Although both are more time consuming than a simple turning of a bolt.

[Maikel]

And now I'm little bit worried how long it will last, 'cos noticed that the spacer from the middle is missing...

I founded the spacer!! It was middle of the crappy bearing peaces.
Now I rechanged teh bearing, and also right side.

But now just need to know the torque for hubnut... Tried to use the search, but can't find there, too much different topics & posts...