What have you done to your Festiva today!?

[bravekozak]

Picked up my Avella dust covers today. Sexy red polyester powder. Strange that they come unpainted from the factory. Hot Wheels, what did you do with your dust covers?

[greywolf200]

Removed the head from my B6 and disassembled it in preparation for porting it. The little 130K looks beautiful inside and the valves and seats are in great shape.

[jason_]

Removed the head from my B6 and dissembled it in preparation for porting it. The little 130K looks beautiful inside and the valves and seats are in great shape.

When I tear a head that far, I bump the faces/seats anyways, then a quick lap.

You can never beat crisp valves.

My new game on exhaust valves is 44* on faces, 45* on seats, seating dead center, 1/32" or so.

I've bought 5 1.3 with a burnt valve, reason so cheap. And I've done 300k on these last 2 builds and burned a valve both times.

So, as of 1500miles ago, doing the 44/45 trick.

Chilton book recommendation. So giving it a shot.

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[bravekozak]

Changed out the gear oil for Royal Purple MAX ATF. And had a few pbrs doing it. Lol

-James

As long as you grabbed the right container to drink from. Then, O.K.

[greywolf200]

When I tear a head that far, I bump the faces/seats anyways, then a quick lap.

You can never beat crisp valves.

My new game on exhaust valves is 44* on faces, 45* on seats, seating dead center, 1/32" or so.

I've bought 5 1.3 with a burnt valve, reason so cheap. And I've done 300k on these last 2 builds and burned a valve both times.

So, as of 1500miles ago, doing the 44/45 trick.

Chilton book recommendation. So giving it a shot.

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Thanks for the info, I would never pull a head without doing the valves. I was going to do a standard 3 angle job and as you suggest, lapping them will be a good idea.

[jason_]

Always lap after grinds. . Final method to clean the grinds and to be certain surfaces mate cleanly, and gives an idea where it is actually touching.

I hate the machine dye. Never had good luck. Scuffed iron never lies and won't smear/smudge.

This last 048" mill project, 2 exhaust seats I had to grind sooooo much to clean up, the grind to narrow dropped the valve to the point you can just stand back and see it lower..... Grrr. Should of punched in new seats, but I was in a hurry, and scared I'd have to take it off and attack it with Sbi head saver shims....So far so good.

The slight difference isn't bothering it, unless your for every pony/engine fire balance between chambers/spray/anal/whatever /and doing circles near the Rev limiter.




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[greywolf200]

Good info, I've used a magic marker in the past also.

[navdoc101]

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Found out that with the Prelude seat swap you cannot fit the rear part of the Escort console.

Can't say I am too impressed with this swap. All I can say is it adds two cupholders, the big gap between the console and the dash looks like trash.

I might put my Auto console back in.

T ry the early '90s Protege console!! Look at my Album in my profile. You have to fab a spacer to fit between the console & the lower part of the dash. Its easy, I did it.

[greywolf200]

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T ry the early '90s Protege console!! Look at my Album in my profile. You have to fab a spacer to fit between the console & the lower part of the dash. Its easy, I did it.

I have the Protege console and am going to try to adapt the cup holder to my Festiva console. Measurements seem to indicate that it will work.

[navdoc101]

^ It will , others have done it. Search all the cupholder & console threads & you will find pics of Protege cupholder in Festy cubbies.

[Oren09]

Killed it.
..or damn near.

My rod knock has been getting worse and today it is terrible. Like dead engine the rod may fly at any moment.
And yes, it has oil.

I've got an engine that's nearly ready to drop in but I was hoping I could put this off awhile.

Only good thing is I somehow managed to pass the emissions inspection.

[jason_]

Killed it.
..or damn near.

My rod knock has been getting worse and today it is terrible. Like dead engine the rod may fly at any moment.
And yes, it has oil.

I've got an engine that's nearly ready to drop in but I was hoping I could put this off awhile.

Only good thing is I somehow managed to pass the emissions inspection.

Square journals? I got by stuffing in used standard bearings and 20w. Anything to buy time and eat up clearance.

Rtv the pan, and got another 2 months out of it.

Obviously over night siting was murder on startups.

But, we all know. You'll never get away from zero oil pressure on starts.

Need to engineer an electric pre-prime pump or delayed ignition to let starter pump oil.

Shit will last longer. I'll bolt on a starter every year instead of swapping a crank.... Then again the $25 gm starters are gone too.


This world really is F'ed.



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[Gomez]

Picked up my Rio front swap and Aspire rear swap today at the Pick-n-Pull and another yard. Also got an Escort dome light, and found a freebie Radio mount to boot. Now it is time to clean the stuff up, order new bushings, tie-rod ends, and such, and git-r-done. Hopefully within a couple weeks.

[DriverOne]

Much done to the Penny Racer and Ms. Scarlet. It may be time to sell a Saturn!

[Gomez]

My power steering system came in today also. I forgot about that.