What have you done to your Festiva today!?

[bravekozak]

I finally got around to doing a magic eraser test on oxidized TPO (gray bumpers). It's a lot better than before. I would say it looks to be about 15 years younger.
I will post some pictures tomorrow. You have to use a lot of elbow grease and the magic erasers take a beating. Plan on using four per bumper. I am not a fan of painting plastic with non heat-catalyzed paint.

[crazyrog17]

Haha, last ditch effort but I knew I had no chance. Awesome cars this month!

Yep, they're tomatoes. I don't know the for sure the types but I know the beefsteaks didn't take, the romas are doing well and the cherry tomatoes are getting out of hand. Too good at their jobs!

There are some marigolds and sunflowers over there too, one sunflower is taller than the wall. You can see it peeking over my hood! Dad calls it Hydra.

[1990new]

Got the engine all unhooked, ready to pull the axles and pluck the drivetrain tomorrow! Another F3A going in

Shameless plug for FOTM. Go to the home page, bottom left corner is the poll. Vote for me!

All depends on the competition at the time... but I'd say you are well on your way to making it.
Looks like you hood strut is working great.
Are those tomatoes in the background in pots?...looks like there are producing well. What variety are they?

[1990new]

Almost finished my first steering knuckle rebuild. With the help of the excellent instructions on the forum, it wasn't all that difficult.

Hope someone who has had this problem before can help me. I probably should have pulled out the rope that I used to push in
the rear grease seal before I tightened the nut so much when pressing in the bearing. But too late now.

Can someone tell me the easiest way to get the rope out now?

[1990new]

Got the engine all unhooked, ready to pull the axles and pluck the drivetrain tomorrow! Another F3A going in

Shameless plug for FOTM. Go to the home page, bottom left corner is the poll. Vote for me!

All depends on the competition at the time... but I'd say you are well on your way to making it.
Looks like you hood strut is working great.
Are those tomatoes in the background in pots?...looks like there are producing well. What variety are they?

[crazyrog17]

What have you done to your Festiva today!?



Got the engine all unhooked, ready to pull the axles and pluck the drivetrain tomorrow! Another F3A going in

Shameless plug for FOTM. Go to the home page, bottom left corner is the poll. Vote for me!

[johnmt]

I'm doing some reconstructive surgery on the radiator support on my 88LX. Pulled it out for a clutch replacement, The back bolts came out, looked like the front were but the impact was just winding up some of the sheet metal with the captive nuts. Got the parts made and tacked the new lower radiator mounts on. Next car I work on,, I'll drill some access holes to get some Kroil on those bolts before I start.

[Christ]

John bless you my child, I am positive you didn't. Just don't so that again, mmmk? You can get a 3" to 2.5" reducer easily enough, and that might be a good thing to do, instead of getting the whole pipe. Others, chime in, wouldn't that be better for flow?

Nope. Zero effect, except at higher velocity the angular flow will restrict the inlet to some extent, causing decreased pressure behind the vortex it creates. Injen had a solution to this when they created teh filter cone with a cap that was also a filter, because air could easily be pulled in from the top. It created another set of problems with internal vortices, though.

[greywolf200]

Jack that motor is NOT a B3. It's a BP. I'm sure that makes it a little louder. It's still a lot quieter than my B3 with glasspacks.

Mine will be a hopped up B6 SOHC and am hoping for a nice mellow sound.

[scitzz]

Got the axles in, I got a rad hose coming in tomorrow at NAPA, it runs! I started it and ran it or like 30-45seconds with NO OIL! I was a complete idiot and forgot to fill it. Hopefully I didn't kill it. I have to order a new intake tube from ebay because the one I got is a 3incher, and it takes a 2.5 incher, so I cinched down the pipe, but it didn't idle for crap. I hope to sweet lord jesus I didn't kill it.

John bless you my child, I am positive you didn't. Just don't so that again, mmmk? You can get a 3" to 2.5" reducer easily enough, and that might be a good thing to do, instead of getting the whole pipe. Others, chime in, wouldn't that be better for flow?

[Spike]

Installed a Weber + Rocketman adapter on the '89LX! Runs nice!

(Technically yesterday and today lol).

-Joe

[TorqueEffect]

I don't know about your gps, but mine also states the speed limit and it is wrong a lot!

Yeah Same here. These are wrong allot too. It's all down to the whoever is supposed to update these systems.

Yeah, there is no way to tell what the GPS speed limits are unless I am using my phone.
I found using Trapster on my phone gives me the GPS posted speed limits. Like I75 in some areas it is now up to 70mph, but the GPS still reads 65mph. There is another stretch of road where it reads that it is 45mph even though it is posted as 55mph.

Nothing more embarrassing then being passed by a 18-wheeler on a back road, because you have to go under the speed limit.

[kellen302]

Got the axles in, I got a rad hose coming in tomorrow at NAPA, it runs! I started it and ran it or like 30-45seconds with NO OIL! I was a complete idiot and forgot to fill it. Hopefully I didn't kill it. I have to order a new intake tube from ebay because the one I got is a 3incher, and it takes a 2.5 incher, so I cinched down the pipe, but it didn't idle for crap. I hope to sweet lord jesus I didn't kill it.

[navdoc101]

Did you tell the boss that? I would.

Oh, yeah, I invited him to ride with me. He declined.

[Zanzer]

^^ Kiitos for the pics...looks great!