What have you done to your Festiva today!?

[ckiesman]

Or visit this place, lol. They offer gas with no ethanol, lol http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Fr...et/67774713209

[bravekozak]

From now on only fill up with non ethanol gas that doesn't absorb water. Probably super.

[Sagermeister]

I dropped my gas tank, needless to say it had to be done.
I looked inside and found there was a ton of rust and gunk inside the tank.
I ordered a new one and soon enough my 89 Festy will be on the road soon enough.

[ckiesman]

Are you certain it's not just a burned out bulb?

100% positive. Its working now. There were 2 wires with plugs in that area. One was a blueish color and one was white with a red stripe. Not sure if those were the wires I needed, but neither one had power. I just ran a wire in under the ceiling from the continuously hot wire going to the dome light, than dropped it down and hid it under the belt trim and down the plastic by the rear seat and to the back. Worked well.

[Movin]

Going to put a new alternator belt on today. Plus I bought a set of 2000 Ranger headlights off ebay, Projector style with halo rings and euro blackout. Can't wait to get those in.

Need pics !!

[shadetree]

Going to put a new alternator belt on today. Plus I bought a set of 2000 Ranger headlights off ebay, Projector style with halo rings and euro blackout. Can't wait to get those in.

Got the same ones today ! Wondering about if there legal or not ?

[bravekozak]

Are you certain it's not just a burned out bulb?

[ckiesman]

Just came in from hooking up my hatch area light. Of course it has to be snowing, but I figured it's been in there since I bought the car last april, I might as well get it working.

[Spike]

FINALLY got around to flushing the coolant.. it's been brown for a long while.

Emptied, Dawn dishsoap water, empty, more dawn, empty, clean water, empty, clean overflow tank (took it out and washed it in the kitchen sink lol).. put in coolant. Now it's almost clean, still a tad dirty.. figure I'll flush it again in a 1000 miles or so.

Then there's the bad part..

My car's been bucking when shifting more than usual (has that dreaded, no-replacement-part auto trans mount out), and there's been a bit of a clunk..

Finally warm enough to look under there, and.. lo and behold..

My rad supports are gone. Rusted OFF (hanging a good inch) beside both bolts, where the bottom engine mount connects to the support. Ugh. So that's what I get to do next weekend..

~Joe

[ckiesman]

New windshield finally. I gotta get it ready for inspection. The only thing left i think i need to do is patch the fist sized hole in my lower rocker infront of the tire. The snow is sorta preventing that from happening though.

[NTRCOOL]

Going to put a new alternator belt on today. Plus I bought a set of 2000 Ranger headlights off ebay, Projector style with halo rings and euro blackout. Can't wait to get those in.

[DriverOne]

Re: What have you done to your Festiva today!?

Mazda MPV alternator. 80-amps. Plug and play.

[standard235]

I have a single 12" JL Audio driven by a 300W RMS 600W Max @ 2Ohms amp and the alternator handles it fine. A little bit of light dimming at idle if I have it cranked up. I've though about installing a capacitor but have never got around to it.

Don't bother with a capacitor. They're good to filter the power (alternator converts AC to DC but isn't perfect, ripple increases under load) and they're good for SQ and keep the amp running healthily. However, it is hardly enough to keep voltage from dropping below charging voltage. You'd need something similar to a batcap and even then, if you're really straining the system, you are just putting another piece in the line for the alternator to charge once it's depleted. You need to create power, not store it. I can't seem to find anyone with a HO alternator for these. Even 100-120A that I took for granted on the Mustang would be nice lol.

[koRnhead]

Cleaned the snow off of it. Damn Wisconsin winter

[greywolf200]

There is a big difference between feedback and non-feedback carbs.
I prefer non-feedback carbs over FI. Besides the fact that they look cool in pairs. No computer control.

That is a really neat setup. What are the details on it, I'm a carb fan.

Thanks,