What have you done to your Festiva today!?

[Christ]

I just noticed the chain was in the pic, hanging over the bumper. That's my jack. Hooks on the tow hooks, used a "cherry picker" to lift the car up.

It's sitting with a single jack stand on the center seat belt brace in the exhaust tunnel and the two front wheels still on the ground right now, which is how it'll stay until the rear end is complete. Then I get to work on the shifter.

[Oren09]

Noticed some clutch slip. Worst case was in second gear. I let off the clutch and accelerated. Only the engine revved, but the car didn't go faster. Finally caught and took off.... Great.

Working on the Izzystiva. Again. Traced a starter issue down to bad battery cables so I rewired the positive to the starter and also the alternator.
Now it won't charge. The primary suspect is oil filling the alternator because of a major leak up front. The alternator worked for a minute or so after heavily washing it out. I have torn down the engine and ready to remove the crank shaft bolt. Stopped there for the night. Looks like the oil pan gasket may be bad as well.
I hate that stupid car.

[Christ]

Got the Aspire rear end mounted up used the Festiva's brake lines.

Had to file out the driver's side rubber hose mount location to get the larger Festiva line to fit it, and I still won't be able to put the retainer clip back on, but the passenger side mount unbolts from the Festiva swingarm (beam) and bolts onto the Aspire unit without modification, making it possible to reuse the entire passenger side Festiva line.

Still need to replace both bleeder valves, but they're loose already, so that won't be a problem. I'll pick up a new pair tomorrow instead of reusing ones I have already (can't be cheap all the time, eh?)

I put 45mm lowering springs From my old Civic on the new stock rear (Gabriel) shocks, haven't put them in yet. Instead of using the stock lower retainer (looks like a top hat, but it's not), I'm gonna use a set of tops I have from a eBay coilover kit that are 6mm aluminum, and I glued rubber isolators to the top coil of the springs (the ones that are stock on the Festiva).

The way you see the springs in the picture, they're smaller on one end. I had to put them on "upside down" with the larger end on the strut plate, and then "force" them on. They're only a tad too small, but once they're on, they sit on nicely.





In the second picture, the thing on top of my work fuel (Mt. Dew) is the blue top hat from the old set of eBay coilovers I had.

The way everything is sitting in the pic is not right, it'll be stock lower shock retainer (or fender washer if I can find one), then lower bushing, then blue thingy.

I also found out that the Civic top hats (4G Civic/2G CRX) are too large to fit in the rear towers. They very well may fit in the fronts, though. For the rear, taking the "skirt" section off would let you mount them, and have two studs in the rear tower with which to mount a strut bar mount. I suspect the rear track is similar to that of a Civic, so maybe the eBay upper rear strut bar will work.

Later, if I really want them, I'll make new tower caps for the rear to bolt them to.

[htchbck]

Changed the oil in FestEvil yesterday! In the morning leaving out at 6am to pick up wflaw's new Aspire!

[runner406]

I got one small can of r12 in my shop lmao

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[runner406]

Sprayed the wheels with foamy tire spray then said grrr to hotoutside went in and fell asleep lol

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[bravekozak]

Finished plumbing all of my air condintioning lines around my power steering pump. Had to take out my new Sanden and install a factory Nippondenso. Just have to charge her up. Does anyone still charge R-12 in Buffalo or Detroit?
I also applied the old red hockey stripe decal kit. It looks amazing on a green Festiva (direct complementary color).

[Oren09]

Thanks.
This will be a good way to monitor just how much oil is being sucked in the intake, too.
I don't have to top off the crankcase very often, but I know some oil is being consumed or leaked.

[gauge_half_inch]

I'll run a catch can on the PCV line. If I'm still getting oil in the intake I'll try capping off the valve cover line.
Should I leave the PCV in place and connect the catch can to the valve, then to the intake, basically just placing the can in line? Fairly simple question but just want to be sure.

Yeah leave the valve there, I would leave the belt line connected to the intake pipe, it does help relive pressure.

[Christ]

Dropped the rear beam off the red '89 today, planning on Civic 2" lowering coils on the new shocks that came with it, as long as they're not too short. If they are, I'll use the stock Civic coils I have. (2G CRX coils).

While I have it apart, I might also check if Civic rear top hats will fit in the rear strut towers. Not that I want to add weight, but they should keep the struts from moving on the pivot top setup they have now.

[freshtiva]

I don't know what we'll do with working a/c!

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Enjoy !! A/C, stereo, and a five speed were all I looked for when I bought my first festiva. Only have one festiva w/o air now.

[link5186]

A/C day today. Swapped out the compressor on the aspire and pulled a good vacuum on it. Let it sit on the gauges for a bit to check for any big leaks. She's ready to recharge, now we wait for payday. Also did the same to the grand prix. I don't know what we'll do with working a/c!

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[htchbck]

Finally got back to work on the festiva project. Not mine lol and it's not actually even a festiva I was working on today, but I got the BP out of the EGT. It's the motor that is going in Keith's car. The trans is missing 3rd gear on it but we have a spare trans that came with the car to go back on the motor. It's a very strong runner with good compression, I got to drive the EGT around the neighborhood a bit before tearing into it. Starting tomorrow I'll be throwing in the unknown condition spare motor that came with the car along with the hydro g trans I picked up from Daniel_cogar. Hopefully the enigine will run and I can go ahead and get the escort out of the way and Keith's car pulled in to start the fun stuff . Pics will follow when it's not so dark outside

[Christ]

Time for a B6/B6D/B8/BP

The blue one is going to become the candidate for the VW swap if I can get it sorted.

[Oren09]

I ran one for years, the vc vent that goes to the intake pipe, leave it alone, that way the pcv is pulling metered air thru the vc instead of atmosphere. As long as you don't vent the catch can it should be legal. The only difference in the whole system would be the catch can and its just giving the oil vapors a space to condense and collect instead of going directly into the manifold.

I'll run a catch can on the PCV line. If I'm still getting oil in the intake I'll try capping off the valve cover line.
Should I leave the PCV in place and connect the catch can to the valve, then to the intake, basically just placing the can in line? Fairly simple question but just want to be sure.