What have you done to your Festiva today!?

[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!!!

[Ford Fester]

started my advanced dynamics shifter linkage upgrade. Also debated whether I am going to go with a bp26 ecu and a b-code rx7 vaf with 330 cc stock gtx injectors or go fully megasquirt with no vaf. I have the megasquirt set-up already. BPT is fun but there is so many options.

[Ford Fester]

Tray installed... 100% bolt on with the factory airbox removed.



Battery in with nifty cambuckle tiedown. Still need to adjust it a little so the buckle is in the middle instead of to the side so it is easier to tighten, but it should work just fine.



Buckle stays hooked together, and the whole thing is attached to the tray on the passenger side, and has a 1" hook on the driver side.

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

[Damkid]

What is the point of changing the odo?

Most likely to keep an accurate count of the mileage on the car

[kumalaba]

yea slayer your ride is killer!

[Darlo]

I pulled the speedo on Fajita and swapped the odometer numbers out with the spare speedo I had. Just popped it out with a small flathead screwdriver and popped the new one in. The needle shaft was no longer attached to the big gold thing the cable goes into.

Hindsight being 20/20, I shoulda lubed the cable. DOH!!!

What is the point of changing the odo?