What have you done to your Festiva today!?

[Oren09]

I bought an impact wrench to get the stupid torque converter bolts off my old engine. No amount of leverage or persons could budge them.
I succeeded in removing three of four. The forth bolt is now completely round. It was slightly damaged from a socket wrench coming off it, then the impact spun on it. And my gator grip socket chewed it up.

So.... If I can't get the bolt out, I have no torque converter for my new engine. I freaking hate automatics!
At this rate I'm going to put the new engine in my crappy parts car and scrap the GL auto.

[bravekozak]

got Skippy, my GL project running (the one i've been doing the head work to).

Is that the one you are going to do what I think you are going to do?

[FestYboy]

got Skippy, my GL project running (the one i've been doing the head work to).

[DriverOne]

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

It was. Everyone seems to want to go grey with their interiors. I'm actually growing to like the beige interior, after what I saw with Rakfint's Honda.

[Twistiva]

Props for going beige! I can't wait to see the pics!

Uhh....if your comment was meant for me, all I can say is, car had brown interior when I bought it almost 24 yrs ago and am trying to keep it as it was. Although, buying tan/brown interior parts is a bugger. I swear the ratio of gray to tan Festys must be about 4 to 1.

Getting it professionally repainted in January. Can't wait!

And, as far as "what did I do today" goes.....received my 89,000 mile 5-spd transmission today. :thumbs_up:

[DriverOne]

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

Props for going beige! I can't wait to see the pics!

[Twistiva]

Bought a brown interior door latch release handle on e-Bay....the rectangular ones you pull to open the door.

[deathrace2000]

I pieced together some new rear coilovers.

[DriverOne]

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

What's worse is that they won't use something else. There were several cars made with our size pipe that they could use. Maybe even in stainless!

[Twistiva]

Walker makes a quiet flow stainless muffler for $55.
You would still have to get it custom installed.

"Quiet flow"?

Is that a line of Walker mufflers? A type of muffler? Sorry, not fully tracking on that.....

$55.....OK, I'll consider stainless. Guess my "free" muffler isn't really "free" if I have to drive 160 miles round trip to get it put on.

[DriverOne]

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

I usually hear people talk of finding used mufflers at the junkyards for less than $20, and even welded on for that price. Otherwise I'd say just pick up a Thrush turbo muffler for the same price, buy a pipe size adapter, and go from there...

[bravekozak]

Walker makes a quiet flow stainless muffler for $55.
You would still have to get it custom installed.

[Twistiva]

Put on an aftermarket stainless muffler and never replace it again.

Sounds nice but "under warranty" = "free".

But....the guy at Midas said the same thing: "We don't carry many mufflers any more because most new cars have stainless steel mufflers and so we only replace them if they're damaged in accidents."

However......how much do they generally run for Festivas?

[bravekozak]

Put on an aftermarket stainless muffler and never replace it again.

[Twistiva]

Tried to get a new muffler put on mine today. Drove all the way to Oklahoma City to get it done (got a warranty for lifetime mufflers from Midas for my Festy clear back in 1993).

No dice. :nono:

Didn't have any that would fit in stock. They do in Wichita, KS but not in Oklahoma City. Will have to ship it from Wichita to OKC.

Nuts. More time and gas to get it swapped out....