What have you done to your Festiva today!?

[htchbck]

I did as well, though my first one was a bigger battery and I wasn't able to make a tray for it to sit on, had to ratchet strap it to the inner fender lol. This is much cleaner, and with a smaller battery. It is a 300cca U1R commonly used in riding mowers and golf carts. Should be enough for this car since it is a 5 speed with no AC. I had a 285cca one in my BP car for a while with no problems.

For the cables I'm going to run the positive along the front with the main harness up there that I had to pull out and rewrap after getting the VAF harness out of it. The negative I ran straight to the body under one of the airbox bracket bolts and then down to the engine. Should work right? Since thats basically what it used to do on the other side just bolted to the trans body rather than the block?

[91mcnasty]

That's where I relocated my battery when I did the BP swap!!!

[Damkid]

That's a really decent battery location, nice job :thumbright:

[htchbck]

Throttle bracket installed! After looking at that pic I realized that there was too sharp of a bend going at the bracket end, so I rerouted the cable a tad and its smooth now



And here is how the battery tray sits. Still have to take it back out and drill one more mount hole in the back, then clean up and paint and shes done! Has an inch of clearance between hood and terminals with hood closed. Not too bad

[Larry Hampton]

My speedo doesn't even work, the odometer does.....

[91mcnasty]

^ that speedo noise absolutely infuriates me!!! Anybody know of a good cable lube? I've tried alot of stuff and it only works for about a week.

[Larry Hampton]

Last night I put new MOOG swaybar end bushings on Fajita. Now it'll get up above 40 without shaking so bad. Problem is now the tops of the doors flap, LOL!!

Also noticed the driver's side tie rod end was missing a cotter pin for the castle nut, it was still tight, dug thru my stuff and found one and installed it.

Now just have to fix the headlight switch and the speedo cluster. I'll probably just swap the steering column instead of trying to remove the multifunction switch. The P/O installed a lighted rocker switch in the dash for the headlights so I'll need to figure out what was hacked. The speedo noise is annoying at speed.

[Charlie1717]

Good work, man!

I slid through a couple of intersections in the neighborhood today. Luckily the main roads were salted and the drive to work was quicker than I expected. I'm sure it'll still take a few more days with snow on the ground before everyone relearns how to drive in it...

My ebrake froze up so I thought I released it and began to drive quickly doing a 180. Fixed now Snow tires going on today!

[91mcnasty]

^ true that. I pulled 2 cars out of a creek at about 10 pm in 40 mph winds......FML

[crazyrog17]

Good work, man!

I slid through a couple of intersections in the neighborhood today. Luckily the main roads were salted and the drive to work was quicker than I expected. I'm sure it'll still take a few more days with snow on the ground before everyone relearns how to drive in it...

[htchbck]

Installed the white tach cluster in Green Car this morning in 20 degree weather and 20mph winds. Good thing I've done cluster swaps enough times that it took less than ten mins

Already finished the throttle bracket for Danny's B6 too, all before 8:30. Shaping up to be a fairly productive day lol.

[htchbck]

Well, yesterday I rerouted (and shortened) the VAF harness to the driver side, moved negative batt cable to pass side, hooked up all the wiring on the back side of the motor including splicing IAC plug, installed starter, installed brake booster crossover tube and some other little odds and ends on Danny's car. Today I'll be making the battery tray and throttle cable bracket using the designs I laid out yesterday. Throttle bracket will be no prob, hopefully the same goes for the batt tray but it will be a little more intense fabrication so we'll see Need to install the positive cable today too.

[htchbck]

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

[200KGPGTP]

Changed the head gasket. Somehow annihilated the timing... took a couple hours to get it right again.

[htchbck]

No problem, looking forward to the end result. If I can get the tank dropped and cleaned today (depending on weather) then I should have it running before the weekend! Need to test that ECU today too.