What have you done to your Festiva today!?

[jason_]

Going to have to try and dismantle this power window assembly from ebay, motor is good, but the cable catches in many different places, and it just started one day after I got in the car and tried to roll the window down.

And of course being ebay, and a cheap ass seller, only a 30 day warranty.

Reason I haven't bought a cheap an oil plate adapter for block to have a remote send/receive to a cooler..... Cheap eBay deals. ..

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[zoe60]

Mine moved. I posted in the arena about it so I could cuss. If yours are not moving, I guess it isn't anything to worry about. I have come to the conclusion that YMMV, I know others with the same experience and some who have had no problems. I cut the brackets to pieces, and threw them in the quarry next to my house.

Those brackets do seem way too flimsy for the job they are doing. I used a 1/4" backing plate and they haven't moved yet but I should probably reshape them and use the original brackets. I do like how they quieted down my front end. Thanks a lot for the heads up!

[TorqueEffect]

Going to have to try and dismantle this power window assembly from ebay, motor is good, but the cable catches in many different places, and it just started one day after I got in the car and tried to roll the window down.

And of course being ebay, and a cheap ass seller, only a 30 day warranty.

[scitzz]

This is the sway bar mount mod that's been on here for a while?

Not sure, I used an Aspire swaybar flipped upside down, Energy Suspension bushings with their universal brackets, a 1/8 inch steel backing plate for the flat topside of the bushing, Moog control arms and bushings. The brackets moved, and destroyed my control arms by pulling their bushing out where it connects to the frame. Elongated the mounting hole at the frame on the drivers side.

I was actually able to save the one control arm by mounting it in a vice, with a large socket on one side, and push the bushing back into place, but the other side was too damaged to trust, warrantied it out. Everything in my front end was new in late June. I did the energy suspension upgrade when I did my clutch a few weeks ago.

I kept the bushings themselves, but the brackets have been cut up and thrown into the quarry next door to rust away, not even sold as scrap metal. When it comes to car rules, rule number one is if it hurts baby car, it dies.


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[frankenfester]

105 is the top speed in a healthy stock 4 speed festy. 113 in 5th.

That reminds me of that video floating around of the high speed chase in a festiva where "I swear he got that thing over 100"

-James

[greywolf200]

Mine moved. I posted in the arena about it so I could cuss. If yours are not moving, I guess it isn't anything to worry about. I have come to the conclusion that YMMV, I know others with the same experience and some who have had no problems. I cut the brackets to pieces, and threw them in the quarry next to my house.

This is the sway bar mount mod that's been on here for a while?

[frankenfester]

Today i received my carbon fiber film from ebay that im going to hit my grey replacement glove box with for practice tonight...Then im going to see how forgiving this junk is on multiple bumps and angles like on top of cluster and around the vin plate and defrost holes. If not completely terrible it will be what is used to finish off the project when i cut a 7x7 hole to try and implement my dash cooler storage area idea(s). sun faded tan interior that is turning grey, and sun faded grey pieces turning tan...cant make it worse other than cracking them like i have been anyway.

Make sure you clear coat it or something. I had the "high quality German" stuff on my hood. And in the summer it decided to bubble up something terrible.

-James

[scitzz]

Why do they suck? You're scaring me.

Mine moved. I posted in the arena about it so I could cuss. If yours are not moving, I guess it isn't anything to worry about. I have come to the conclusion that YMMV, I know others with the same experience and some who have had no problems. I cut the brackets to pieces, and threw them in the quarry next to my house.

[jdm19942]

Finally got around to getting my interior back in the car, and have everything except the back seat in. Only to find that i still have two extra screws that for the life of me I can't figure out where they go.

[zoe60]

Found out why Energy Suspension bushings suck.

Why do they suck? You're scaring me.

[neanderpaul]

105 is the top speed in a healthy stock 4 speed festy. 113 in 5th.

[jason_]

Pushed the 90% stock 1.3 to 105mph. Couldn't used OD. Had to use 4th. Not enough ballz.

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[1990new]

Jess -

What was the brand/model number of the sprayer you bought? Need to install a new one in mine since the painter I used last Spring broke mine getting it out. :gritteeth:

Carefully removed one with 4 sprayer holes from one at the junk yard to replace the one hole fan type that was in Trixie.

[scitzz]

Found out why Energy Suspension bushings suck.

[Twistiva]

Replaced the old single hole windshield sprayer with one that spays four jets on Trixie. Works much better now.

Jess -

What was the brand/model number of the sprayer you bought? Need to install a new one in mine since the painter I used last Spring broke mine getting it out. :gritteeth: