What have you done to your Festiva today!?

[Jim Rockford]

I received a package in the mail today from my new hero junspeed! If you're considering buying from this guy DO IT! Shipping was prompt. His packaging is safe. His communication is great.

Link?

[neanderpaul]

Now you need an escort rear wiper gear mod.

[Skrapbob]

[QUOTE=neanderpaul;480221]I received a package in the mail today from my new hero junspeed! If you're considering buying from this guy DO IT! Shipping was prompt. His packaging is safe. His communication is great. The spoiler is a hard rubber with a metal frame. It has a very subtle Kia emblem on the back edge. It is brand-new and very nice! The ribbed taillights are also brand-new and Eurostyle!


I got my spoiler from junspeed last Thursday, along with a pair of inner door handles. Installed per http://www.fordfestiva.com/forums/sh...poiler+install

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[neanderpaul]

I received a package in the mail today from my new hero junspeed! If you're considering buying from this guy DO IT! Shipping was prompt. His packaging is safe. His communication is great. The spoiler is a hard rubber with a metal frame. It has a very subtle Kia emblem on the back edge. It is brand-new and very nice! The ribbed taillights are also brand-new and Eurostyle!

[Movin]

Top end cleaning..If Seafoam is your thing use it to slowly kill an idling
engine then leave it soaking for 20 minutes. With Seafoam you might
repeat the process a couple times. You can lightly throttle the engine
as its dying to prolong the die and it will spread the cleaner out a little.
Drive it to blow the carbon out. Having some Seafoam in the oil at this
point wouldn't hurt, just make sure your oil is still good enough to support
a quick test drive before you change it. Some of the cleaning will go
downstairs, plan on the oil change.

[Oren09]

Compression tested my vehicles.

Festiva scored 75-90-90-75. I poured some oil in cylinder 4 and it shot up over 200PSI.
I'm guessing worn or stuck piston rings? My compression was fairly normal at the beginning of summer last year.

My truck did 60-80 PSI and went to 150 on the wet test. That explains why the thing seems to be so slow and gutless.

I was pondering some Seafoam in the crankcase. I'm due for an oil change anyway.
What do y'all recommend as a last effort to unstick piston rings?

[kumalaba]

Advanced shifter bushing #1 installed.

nice! any link to where you purchased shifter? take care danny

[Larry Hampton]

What is the point of changing the odo?

Yeah, Fajita has 95k on it, the replacement read 172k.

[Ford Fester]

Advanced shifter bushing #1 installed.

[HondaSlayer]

yea slayer your ride is killer!

Thank you very much.

[wflaw45]

Called FMS and ordered a pair (yes two :headbang: ) of B3 camshafts

[Ford Fester]

I can do a short shifter sticky if ya want. There already is one but here's what it consists of.

1. Remove shift knob.
2. Remove shift boot
3. Remove spring retainer.
4. Remove plastic bushing.
5. Remove bolt from shifter and linkage.
6. Remove shifter from car.
7. Install new shifter.
8. Install old bushing.
9. Cut spring 1 1/2 coils.
10. Install spring.
11. Install shift boot.
12. Install shifter
13. Use the advance dynamics shift linkage mod and drill out your new shifter to 1/2".
14. Drill your linkage to 1/2"
15. Go to ace hardware and get
-1-1/2" by 2.5" hardened shouldered bolt
-2-stainless 1/2" washers
-2-1/2" plastic washers
-1-1/2" nylock nut

16. Put some anti seize on bolt and install into shifter and linkage.
17. Enjoy!

[kumalaba]

joseph everything is working out great, 2 more weeks!!!!!!!!!!! glad you like the tach!


max we will start a battery location sticky when you start a short shifter sticky! w/ pics! lol

[htchbck]

Babied Chuck a little more while running pizza last night, and hit 39.6mpg. It was nice (since my average has been about 33). But at the same time, I was kind hoping that babying it wasn't going to make that much of a difference, and I could keep beating on it all the time. But for an extra ~5mpg I guess I'll shift at 1500rpms instead of 2500 lol. Can't wait to get my G4A into green car, especially now that I have a tasty white face tach (thanks Danny, you da MAN!) in it to document the RPM drop of having a fourth gear and a lockup converter .

Could we compile all of your pictures and maybe more to make a sticky for a battery relocation write up?

If by "we" you mean "someone less lazy with more time on their hands than me", I say go for it lol. Actually I need to compile ALL of my posts about Danny's car into one garage thread, it will basically be a full swap guide for the later B6s, with a little bit of brake work on the side.

[200KGPGTP]

Did the HG fix your problem? And did you ever run comp tests?

It runs 100X better now. I never tested the compression, didn't want to spend the $30 to buy a tester, Lol!!

But yeah, I've got all my power back!!

Put gas in it.
9.083 gallons
$3.29/gal
$29.96
Gas has gone back up a bit, but still under $30 to fill.

You forgot miles!!








Today I replaced the bolts and the gasket for the header-to-downpipe joint... yay for a quiet car and no more carbon monoxide poisoning!!!