What have you done to your Festiva today!?

[ryanprins13]

I bought the car from a Tow company that kept the car because the owner couldn't pay the tow fees from when it broke down. There was check stubs for 2 different guys in the glove box but I feel kinda bad that they lost their car... The tag was still on it and everything, I even found a Galaxy S3 in the passenger seat.

Man that would suck.


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[Shin Hayata]

Good suggestion, zoe60. Thanks.

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A parts order just came in from Amazon, so I finished the day by installing:

-Bosch 09211 plug wires (to complement the Autolite 64 plugs installed ~2 weeks ago)
-Standard Motor Products ignition cap JH144
-Standard Motor Products ignition rotor JR163

The new cap and rotor have brass contacts; the old parts did not (and there was a bit of carbon scoring evident.)

Parts for job.jpgNew and old cap.jpgOld and new rotor.jpg

[zoe60]

You could swap it over to an OEM Festy AM FM radio and keep the stock appearance. Beware they come in orange or white lettering so stipulate witch one you need if you try to buy one.

[firebush357]

Do you have the name of the person who owned it before? Find them on facebook and post on their page that they left some stuff in the car you bought and attach the photos

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I bought the car from a Tow company that kept the car because the owner couldn't pay the tow fees from when it broke down. There was check stubs for 2 different guys in the glove box but I feel kinda bad that they lost their car... The tag was still on it and everything, I even found a Galaxy S3 in the passenger seat.

[Shin Hayata]

The sound is just ok. The head unit is the factory original AM radio. Said differently, the speakers can only process the quality of the signal that they receive. It seems that I'm only able to receive talk radio, so when I'm not shifting, I'm shaking my fist. ha

I'd like to keep the car stock in appearance and function; that's my "build". My sole concession to modernity is a USB charging plug.

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[ryanprins13]

The 29 year old original dash speakers in my 88L sounded awful. When I removed the plastic grilles, paper from the speaker cones fell out on to the floor mats. Complete disintegration. I was surprised they produced any sound at all.

I shopped quite a few brand-name replacement speakers, but the integrated tweeter projections would have fouled reinstallation of the plastic grille covers. I knew that AutoZone sold a pair of inexpensive, low profile 4" speakers that were labeled as direct replacements (click here). And they were. I simply cut off the factory harnesses on the old speakers and used them to connect the new ones. Done.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]20398[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]20399[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]20400[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]20401[/ATTACH]

Sweet. How does it sound now?

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[Shin Hayata]

The 29 year old original dash speakers in my 88L sounded awful. When I removed the plastic grilles, paper from the speaker cones fell out on to the floor mats. Complete disintegration. I was surprised they produced any sound at all.

I shopped quite a few brand-name replacement speakers, but the integrated tweeter projections would have fouled reinstallation of the plastic grille covers. I knew that AutoZone sold a pair of inexpensive, low profile 4" speakers that were labeled as direct replacements (click here). And they were. I simply cut off the factory harnesses on the old speakers and used them to connect the new ones. Done.

Old and new dash speakers.jpgOld and new dash speakers 2.jpgDisintegration of orig dash spkr.jpgNew dash speaker in situ.jpg

[ryanprins13]

Do you have the name of the person who owned it before? Find them on facebook and post on their page that they left some stuff in the car you bought and attach the photos

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[firebush357]

I started cleaning out my XR2 to slowly get it ready to strip everything out of. The top was damaged and had been rain in before I got it so everything inside was pretty gross so I just cut the top off to make everything easier to get to because it would not fully collapse. In the process of taking off Door Panels and Removing seats I found about 30 Condoms in the door pocket and under the passenger seat...

There were more that I threw away before I took this photo...

And then when I removed the Driver seat found a bottle of Astro Glide...


I put gloves on to clean up the trash after finding this lol.

I also cut off the front bumper and started labeling connectors to get ready for the swap because I don't know how long it is going to take and I am nervous since this is my first swap and I don't want to misplace wires.

[Festiver]

always be living the poke life lol

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[ryanprins13]

Very short video, but it sounds nice. Man those tires stick out a long ways!

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[Festiver]

https://vimeo.com/197771529 I like the deepness of it, it's just a bit ricey lol when I go turbo it'll fix that

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[ryanprins13]

Lol nice man but yeah its massive I was hoping I would have a very clean sound but the BP had other plans I like it but it could be better

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Whats the sound like?

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[Festiver]

Wow, that is one huge resonater!
I welded this one in my car off a civic and thought it hung low!

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Lol nice man but yeah its massive I was hoping I would have a very clean sound but the BP had other plans I like it but it could be better

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[ryanprins13]

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Wow, that is one huge resonater!
I welded this one in my car off a civic and thought it hung low!

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