What have you done to your Festiva today!?

[mastadamn]

Replaced the brake pads. Found out I don't even have to remove the calipers, and I can compress the piston with my foot. Haha. Going to replace the exhaust tomorrow.

[crazyrog17]

My guess would be a bobcat diesel.

[greywolf200]

I'm pretty sure I'd like to see a plug & play diesel swap, personally. Especially if it were something on order of 150HP.

Oh, wait. That's what I'm working on now. Silly me...

[Disclaimer - Mine won't be anything near 150hp, and it's still using the same E-series trans that came with the car... but I'll have a plug and play kit ready to go when it's done for a very common engine that you can get anywhere in the country for cheap and they're easily upgraded to make better power numbers without ultimately sacrificing cruise economy]

...I keep saying things like this and people are going to have an easy guess at which engine I'm using before I even tell them... :/

You're such a tease.....:nono:

[TorqueEffect]

It's not the filter. It's how clean the gas is that you are using. Any filter will stay clean without being plugged up by rust from the gas tank and lines from cheap ethanol gas.

Yeah I guess that is true, when I pulled the old gas tank out it had little to no grime or dirt in the tank. So you are probably right, it was run on clean, non-ethanol fuel for its whole life.

I do know I never go for the crappy looking gas stations, I only put Speedway, BP, or Kroger (Local Grocery Store Chain) I make exceptions when it doesn't look like a cheap, or run down gas station. Only station I avoid completely is Sunoco, one time we gassed up at one in our 01 Windstar, and almost immediately the van started sputtering and the Check Engine Light came on, and ran like that until the tank was refilled with clean gas, then it ran just fine.

[bravekozak]

It's not the filter. It's how clean the gas is that you are using. Any filter will stay clean without being plugged up by rust from the gas tank and lines from cheap ethanol gas.

[TorqueEffect]

Changed the Fuel Filter, and the air filter.

I yanked that old fuel filter out of there, the tightening bolt for the thing that wraps around the filter sheered off with little effort.

Pulling the hoses off took the longest out of the whole thing. Once I got it out, I noticed it was a Motorcraft filter, and it had quite a bit of oxidation, and rust on it. Could this filter really have been in there for 311k miles? If it was, that is one damn good filter, I only changed it because I was fairly certain that it was in there way longer than 60k miles, and was hoping to get some power back from changing it.

[Christ]

I'm pretty sure I'd like to see a plug & play diesel swap, personally. Especially if it were something on order of 150HP.

Oh, wait. That's what I'm working on now. Silly me...

[Disclaimer - Mine won't be anything near 150hp, and it's still using the same E-series trans that came with the car... but I'll have a plug and play kit ready to go when it's done for a very common engine that you can get anywhere in the country for cheap and they're easily upgraded to make better power numbers without ultimately sacrificing cruise economy]

...I keep saying things like this and people are going to have an easy guess at which engine I'm using before I even tell them... :/

[getnpsi]

In a perfect world where everyone loved festivas take it a step further and have preassembled OEM BP+g25's front clips with plug and play harnesses. can you imagine whole subframe and drivetrains on furniture dollies lined up in some guys shop for 2 grand out the door all day long. Most of you can buy an engine and get a BP car going for a grand, but time is money for every party involved.

[Christ]

Look at how they build train engines that are huge two-stroke diesels... sleeve and piston/rod/pin/rings all pop out at once, they're called 'power units'. They rarely get rebuilt, usually sold to a core rebuilder or another train yard that will use them on mules or on their trains if they're still serviceable.

Kinda wish our engines were something like that in cars/trucks. Drop a piston, remove that whole unit and replace and it'd be the same amount of work as replacing a head gasket, basically.

[jason_]

For the cost, I think I'll just go with a little more displacement and a little more compression ratio. Thanks though.

Yeah, it's an alternative. It's meant for larger blocks that are worth thousands. Or pistons of size cost $300 each. That way you buy one piston, one ring set, one sleeve, no not upset the rest of the block.

Doing it on these throwaway cheap paperweights wouldn't be feasible unless you're really bored and wanted to give something an experiment.


I sleeved an int'l, I think it was $70 for the stock? , cut to length. $200 piston and set of rings, Better then a $6000 rebuild kit,

Many ways to skin a cat.

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[greywolf200]

We might need to talk realz soon!

PM me when you're ready....nthego:

[QUOTE=jason_;616029]Sleeve it! Call Melling, they have decent prices on sleeve stock.

For the cost, I think I'll just go with a little more displacement and a little more compression ratio. Thanks though.

[getnpsi]

Today I learned that the black center vents snap into the outside vent locations directly! Kind of a cool free mod, the brown ones were not up to par and i have extra center bezels.
Took on the identity of weightweenie and found that changing my floormats to some out of my other car was worth almost 2 pounds savings.
Took some 000 steel wool to the glass headlights and my windshield, i was parked under something sticky and it really was annoying driving into the sun.
Hit the top of car with "softscrub." Im going to plasti dip the roof and put on a rack with basket anyway, i just wanted to see how uniform the paint still was.
Timing is now advanced and I run 91 octane only. Once I purchase mpg cam and fiddle with fuel pressure ill settle back in dedicated for savings.

[TorqueEffect]

Painted my Metro steelies gloss black, and installed the aspire idler pulley and bracket.
By eye, it looks like it lines up perfectly with the compressor, and crank pulleys from the rare P/S and A/C Festy.

[Flyin4stroke]

I dropped my head off Tuesday picked up a new turbo yesterday. Hopefully I'll have it back together in a week or two. New turbo has internal adjustable waste gate. Gotta order some pieces still. Vj5 vs garrett tb03

[navdoc101]

Cleaned up the Aspire rear torshion beam, wire wheeled the brake drums & painted them black with caliper paint. Gettin' close to the swap.