What have you done to your Festiva today!?

[muleskinner]

Went over to a friends Friday to replace the struts on Blue. Front struts were replaced with no problem, but the rear struts wouldn't come off. The bottom bolts were frozen in the shock so when we were taking the bolts out they stayed in and broke the welds on the nuts. I had to leave Blue at my friends till we can get something to cut the bolts on both sides of the shock.

[Gomez]

...till we can get something to cut the bolts on both sides of the shock.

Yeah I did that a couple times. We get used to that in Ohio lol. I didn't have a sawzall at that time so I used a cutoff wheel and a grinder. It SUCKED.

[muleskinner]

Worked on my parts car, Red Saturday. Installed the air meter, removed the cracked radiator from the battery explosion, got rid of the wire rig job the last owner did on the rad fan to make it work. Looked over the a/c components to figure how I'm going to remove all that and put it in Squig.

[scitzz]

Got the door to act like... Well, a door! Been a lot of welding.


You know, as a welder, I make one heck of a grinder!
Running around outside the asylum again with my tappy talky appy

[freshtiva]

I put away my winter DD ( Festdiva ) and brought out my summer DD( Frankenstiva ). Both got a bath.

[rmoltis]

was cruisin around today in my aspire.
and stopped at a stop light.
had my windows down.
guy pulls up next to me rolls down his windows and says,
"hey how much you want for your car?"
then i said
"you wouldnt be able to afford it :-D"
then drove off on the green light.

[rmoltis]

Was cruising around today fiddling with fuel pressure, idle speed, and ignition timing .
Now that it is summer time, my car needed its seasonal tune :-).

Everything is dialed in nicely,
after all the time I spent learning how to get everything in harmony its easy now.

But when I sent under my car just to have a look like usual every now and again.
I found bad news!

As soon as I saw it I instantly was torn between 2 realities;
1. I take very good care of my car and tend to take my time around bumps/potholes/etc.
I can not remember ever bottoming this car out maybe the p.o. but not me.
&
2. The fact that it could be no-one else's fault but mine since I'm the only one that drives it.

I'm so mad. not at myself but the situation grrrr......

Here's pics...





So now I have the two center cylinders with reduced capacity primaries.
Which means that those 2 cylinders should see higher temps and pressures than the outside 2.

We all know a smooth running engine basically starts with balanced/matched airflow into and out of each cylinder.

One day I will have dickmeyer repair them,
But for now I just wanna let it sink in what I did :-(

[william]

Grind a spot clean.
get a stud welder or go to a body shop and have them stud weld it and pull the dents.

Oh and what I did to my festiva today.
I rotated my tires on lunch break at work and while I was under there I admired my frame rot.

[bravekozak]

I would get a piece of steel from Metal Supermarket, just a little smaller than the inside diameter of the tube, round the end, undo the flex tube, slide it in, heat the dent, and then hammer in the steel to straighten out the dents.

[rmoltis]

I would get a piece of steel from Metal Supermarket, just a little smaller than the inside diameter of the tube, round the end, undo the flex tube, slide it in, heat the dent, and then hammer in the steel to straighten out the dents.

This sounds great in theory.
The end of the tube being inserted would have to have a rounded end like a cow magnet does.
So that a sharp end wouldn't crease the dent as its hammered inwards.

I'm still going to put this off for a while,
At least until I can find the cause of these so I can keep it from happening again.
The way I see it now is that the lower primaries have been "clearanced" for whatever caused it lol.

A one time fix like this would be best because we all know how soft metal gets when its bent too many times.

[Damkid]

Oil change, trimmed my rear bumper so I stop burning it up with the exhaust, and bolted my fender more secure to the body again lol

[defprun]

Left my lights on overnight which drained my battery. Jumped the car and burned out the middle fusible link. Burned it out again...whatever my battery charger is at my parents...than stopped burning fuses and all is good. Until the next day where my belt starts chirping, changed belt...starts smoking. Okay its too tight...but Im gonna swap in my Ford Probe alt in. Actually using deflection measurements (lol) the squeeling has been minimized...but its not charging worth a crap. So the alt is coming out so I can put the Festiva pulley on the Probe alt...unless it doesnt fit...at which point the Festi alt is going back in.

[Damkid]

The probe alt has a different pulley, not sure about mounting points though

[Damkid]

Actually now that I think about it, jack (from OMC) was gunna put a KL alt on his BP after a pulley swap, so it should bolt to a B3 fine

[defprun]

The thru bolt goes through the other way around (so you have to remove the pass side wheel to tighten it) a bit of clearance is needed to get the bigger adjusting bolt through the upper mounting bracket and a bigger eye connector for ground. Even the pulley diameter looks the same but has an extra groove...oh yeah I have an aspire motor so its already got a serp belt lol...probably the belts trying to jump in that groove is why its still chirping.