What have you done to your Festiva today!?

[runner406]

Bought all the gaskets and timing belt water pump to do my head gasket job on my festiva , and took the head to the machine shop to get it milled straight ,looked at the other festy yes i got two good ones ,one parts car ,laughed and went to work ugh

[newcomb]

fixed my fusible link friing problem then proceeded to put er to work in the field pulling tree limbs to burn pile i was pruning tree all day yesterday

[bobstad]

haven't cursed yet!

[Christ]

I have a set of tow hooks from my '92 that you can have for $5 shipped. I just hammered out the welds, so you can drill the piece out and re-weld them if you wanna put them on.

[htchbck]

Did a little more mocking up of trailer hitch receiver. Too bad FestEvil had to have the round tow hooks instead of the flat plates like the newer cars Oh well, I'll make it work, thanks to the welder Jerry let me borrow

[200KGPGTP]

Watch for them in your next can of soda... :cry_smile:

[FeistyFesti]

Removed the rear bumper to finish painting all the teal underneath and will remove both tail lights and finish blacking out the teal areas.

[Movin]

I made it tow a 53 cj5...

[Glow_Mouse]

Finally got my aspire firing up and running again. Apart from the blown out tranny. Its lookin to be an early christmas.

My engine setup currently

The car came with a lot of spare parts, so basically, all the top notch parts will be going into the Festiva

OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG those rimssss... =D Lucky!

[htchbck]

EGT is here!



This will be the donor for Keith's BP build, more or less. The car came with a lot of spare parts, so basically, all the top notch parts will be going into the Festiva, and I will be building back the escort with the rest of the parts plus a few new parts. So while it IS a donor, its only donating its best pieces, and will be turned back into a reliable daily driver on the flipside!

[Ford Fester]

Preppes my car for the 3200 mile road trip to go watch charlie race his festiva. Going to see some sights along the way.

[htchbck]

Drove it to work like I do everyday...

In other news... EGT is coming! Keith is on his way down right now with the donor for the EGT swap in his white '89L (the other one, not the other other one :-P). I'll be meeting up with him at the house at lunchtime to unload car and spare parts. Let another swap begin!

[Hot_Wheels]

rebuilt 2 sets of hla's! i have a extra set for sale if anyone is looking for a good set.



started assembling top hald, im stuck at the cams. im not sure if they are damaged or not

[Christ]

Oh, nothing much...





Temporarily mounted a GT1752 (I'm pretty sure that's what it is, but I haven't gotten the numbers off it yet...) to the stock manifold, and checked clearance on the engine with it.

I'm probably going to need to cut off a flange from another manifold to get the extra 12mm or so of clearance to make everything jive correctly, but seems like it'll work fine without re-clocking the housings at all. The oil drain won't be perfectly vertical, but it shouldn't hurt anything at a slight angle (less than 10*) since it's such a large diameter (something like 20mm).

The rear two bolts on the manifold, after removing the studs, accommodate 2 of the studs on the GT28 flange. Knowing this beforehand, I have only mounted the turbo by 2 studs, and plan on welding some material to the remainder of the flange to accommodate the other 2 studs. The turbo sits canted away from the engine on the cold side as a result, but this should not affect anything, since there should be plenty of clearance to the radiator here.

I will not be running an IC for this any time soon, if at all, since I'll only be running it at about 5 PSI on the B3. Later, if I decide to turn the boost up, I'll have a buddy make a PWM circuit based on a pressure switch to control water injection and an auxiliary injector for when the stock ECM can't handle the boost level.

Next things to do are grab a spare oil pan (from the first engine in this car) and get it ready for an oil return plug, figure out where to draw oil from, and pipe it up on the mock-up engine. I'll probably plug the coolant ports on the turbo since they won't be necessary at low boost. Again, if I need them later, they'll still be there.

So... that's what I done tuhday. What'd YOU do?

[link5186]

Cleared the trash and vacuumed it out. Been a while since I got all the crud out.

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