What have you done to your Festiva today!?

[navdoc101]

Just got back from getting my Aspire swap. $150.00 & they pulled it. Nice lookin Blue Aspire hit from the rear. Looks like someone took good care of it , Front breaks look fairly new, all ithe pins & parts still shiney. Good looking seats & motor not to dirty on the exterior. He's gonna keep it for awhile to part out. Troyt's Auto. in Tampa, 6120 Jensen Rd.

[greywolf200]

I removed this:






And replaced it with this:




That's a booster and master cylinder from a 2000 Miata. The brakes are wayyyy better now :mrgreen: Best 50 bucks I've spent on brakes so far. After driving the car a few miles, I now wish I had done it sooner.


*I wanna give a big shoutout to Charlie (AdvanceDynamix) for planting the seed to try this swap.* :thumbup:

Veeery nice.

[kumalaba]

great improvement!

[Zanzer]

EDIT - You only have to plug one port on the NA, not 2. And it does have a line that feeds from each side instead of both on the right.


I got mine from a guy on Ebay in Arizona and the parts looked as clean and new as if you had bought them at the parts store. Gotta love the rust free Southwest

[getnpsi]

Cool deal there are Miata part out all over the place in Southern California spinout makes part out I guess

[Zanzer]

^^ Charlie used an NA (89-98 ) for his and mine is off an NB series (98-05). Either should work as long as it's non-ABS, just a slight difference in the lines coming off the MC. On the NA you have to plug 2 extra holes and with the NB it's only one. I'm not sure about using a NC setup because I didn't really research if that series would work since there are so many NA and NB booster/mc setups for sale on Ebay.

I think the NB is more of a direct swap since it has line locations like the Festiva. I think the NA ones may have a line coming from each side instead of both on the right.

[getnpsi]

I removed this:






And replaced it with this:




That's a booster and master cylinder from a 2000 Miata. The brakes are wayyyy better now :mrgreen: Best 50 bucks I've spent on brakes so far. After driving the car a few miles, I now wish I had done it sooner.


*I wanna give a big shoutout to Charlie (AdvanceDynamix) for planting the seed to try this swap.* :thumbup:

What is the year range does it start with your 2000 or it is back in a few years as well

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[getnpsi]

Attempted to wetsand off the clear really carefully. Turned her into a strong 20 footer from a 50 footer

[Zanzer]

I removed this:






And replaced it with this:




That's a booster and master cylinder from a 2000 Miata. The brakes are wayyyy better now :mrgreen: Best 50 bucks I've spent on brakes so far. After driving the car a few miles, I now wish I had done it sooner.


*I wanna give a big shoutout to Charlie (AdvanceDynamix) for planting the seed to try this swap.* :thumbup:

[greywolf200]

:laughing7:

:laughing7:

Just for the record, I responded to Bravekozak's response to my post about the wiper motor. Don't know how it got connected to the stat post.

[RENESISFD]

I install the escort GT master cylinder. Haven't driven the car yet though.

[Prafeston]

I was going to try an use this fix... http://www.fordfestiva.com/forums/sh...pie+Mirror+Fix

[bravekozak]

The mirror is held in place under tension by a single pin from behind the plastic power mirror motor housing. If it were me, I would operate and get a Protege mirror from the junk yard. Do you want to buy just a mirror with the pivot from me? or do you want to send the mirror to me for a rebuild?

[Prafeston]

Prafeston, you really need Festiva sail plates.

...then I guess I can swap the plate from the broken driver mirror I have. Are the really that different?

[ted88]

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getting my stock carb cleaned and rebuilt.