What have you done to your Festiva today!?

[XFSE71]

I backed #30 out of the garage and smelled smoke ... burning electrical wiring ... shut it off bailed pulled the neg batt cable (I leave it loose). Now I have no MIL and no throttle kicker. Car won't idle AC on and falters with any electrical load. Now I'm looking at the wiring to the ECA for where the damage is .... hope it's not in the ECA itself. I see no burned insulation.

Update: Yes the ECA was the source of smoke. I pulled it out and apart. A chip has severely burned (let the smoke out).
Now I'm in the process of identifying the causal part. Pin by pin looking for high current flow into ECA.

[rmoltis]

Decided to go mount my long tube today.
Took out my current header and put the oher one on for fitment.
And to our suprise it didn't fit because there was a yet to be seen variable.
An undiscovered beast lurking to stop you from modifying your car lol.

On the 96-97 aspires there is a housing where the lower radiator hose connects to the block.
And it prevented me from installing the header.





Called up Matt-D-Meyer and sent him some pics and apparently this is only obdII equipped vehicles.
So I drained my coolant and removed the header to get to the housing.
Took the housing off and mailed it to matt for some (chop/shorten/weld back together) action.
So that there will be no more fitment issues.

He said next time he does an obdII aspire he will move the number one primary over about .5"-1"
So there will be no issues. I am the test mule.

So now my car is sitting out front with no header,coolant, and paper towel filled holes for the time being.

I am working on making 02 sensor and air fuel sensor extensions
so hopefully I don't have to chop any wiring.
Just plug and play.
I have the 2 connectors for the HO2S to make one.
But I am missing the 1 wire female connector with wire from the harness side
To complete the extension.
I would buy premade extensions if possible but I'm having a hard time finding any.

I have an appointment for the exhaust shop on July 8.
Gonna get a 2" mandrel bent stainless bent up
along with the ss magnaflow muffler, resonator, and catalytic converter.
And new O2 sensor down stream and upstream.

So close now!

Now I just need to find a new home for my old header.

[frankenfester]

I love the way that grille looks. Do it white and chop out that middle bar and add some mesh. She'll be sexxxaaayyyy

-James

[WeDefyU]

Kia Pride conversion, park/turn conversion, and fog lights. Oh moved the plate too.
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[gurry624]

Awesome. Post pics when she's all done!

-James

I post everything I do in my build thread.

[frankenfester]

Haven't drivin it yet, but I am going to support it. Along with making a frame support for the car

Awesome. Post pics when she's all done!

-James

[gurry624]

Haven't drivin it yet, but I am going to support it. Along with making a frame support for the car

[frankenfester]

Oh nothin much, just cut my roof off....

Does the windscreen support nit bend backwards under pressure when driving? Do you have plans to support it?

-James

[gurry624]

Oh nothin much, just cut my roof off....

[WeDefyU]

Apologies if I offend anyone.
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[frankenfester]

That mirror looks familiar!

:thumbup:

-James

[Prafeston]

That mirror looks familiar!

[Powerstiva]

Same thing happened to me with my e-brake when i swapped over but i wasnt as lucky =( but fortunately i have a good aspire one now for my brake swap this weekend/next week

[Gomez]

Car was an auto so the e-brake never got used and froze solid with no engagement. Put a 5 speed in last week and realized "no e-brake". spent a few minutes to free it all up. It actually works sweet now.

[frankenfester]

Took mine and the new formozas for a spin in the monsoon.
This was the only shot I got of the rain. But it dumped so I decided to go try the tires.
They cut through puddles and standing water like better. No hydroplane, none of that jerk steering you get from splashing through puddles. Tires are great around corners (wet and dry) and even noticed the crosswind doesn't push me across the road like on the stock steelies. Also decided to fart around with an old man in a Camaro


-James