What have you done to your Festiva today!?

[defprun]

Started painting my FE3N stuff:

I reckon Detroit Alpine Green is a good fit for the ridiculousness of this project, and the amount of oil this thing leaked before rebuild.

Thats a sweet colour

[Tommychu]

Thats a sweet colour

Thanks. I wasn't even going to bother painting but the block is still hot tank fresh so I'd rather it didn't insta-rust. Also it's a good colour for finding leaks. Not that I anticipate any because I'm awesome at engines (haha ha ha hahaha) but better safe than sorry.

[Micro Mudder]

Got my festiva able to fire up and move a foot after not running for 6months!! Still not drivable but heck I got the jitters hearing the 4 cylinders come to life through the straight pipes!

[defprun]

Thanks. I wasn't even going to bother painting but the block is still hot tank fresh so I'd rather it didn't insta-rust. Also it's a good colour for finding leaks. Not that I anticipate any because I'm awesome at engines (haha ha ha hahaha) but better safe than sorry.

Do you have a link to your build?

[scitzz]

Just drained the ATF from my 5speed, and replaced it with synchromesh. Zanzer put it right when he described it as "butter." I had two white russians in me at fillup, so no test drive. Gonna let it sit overnight. I did fire it up and run it through the gears. Already feeling the difference.

[bravekozak]

Replaced two burned fuses. The tangless replacement terminal on my second horn is too smooth and keeps slipping off and grounding when horn honk is initiated on lock. Note to self: find a new source for 1P AMP connectors. Every horn terminal and ignition coil ballast resistor terminal should be in a connector.
My main problem is finding out why my windshield wiper pump won't work.
Unfortunately, this is another case of Mazda using the same color wire as the barometric pressure transducer to the ignition control module. Blue/orange. I really hate when they use the same wire color twice.
I removed the blue/orange wire to the BP sensor.
The other wire should still be there. We will find out when I remove the battery and dig for it tomorrow. I remember since I installed an 89 carb harness in a 93, the connectors were different. The carb had a simple two position connector and the EFI washer pump had a four position connector. Nice. I sure hope I didn't fry the washer motor.
The replacement plastic washer hose was unstretched. While I was pushing it onto the nozzle from below, the nozzle popped out, hit the windshield and bounced into the engine compartment from beneath the open hood. It did not hit the floor. It took me about fifteen minutes to locate it. Apparently, it had come to rest under the distributor, where the condensor would go. I do not have the condensor installed yet and was looking much lower.
Next time, I will post an mp3 of my Festiva in panic mode with a Honda Spree horn. You will not believe how funny it sounds.

[greywolf200]

Gotta try that in the Capri I bought last week. Was that Redline product?

[scitzz]

Gotta try that in the Capri I bought last week. Was that Redline product?

The synchromesh? Pennzoil.
Ordered it online for instore pickup at advance auto. Used the code trt30 (thanks Russ) and saved 30%
Running around outside the asylum again with my tappy talky appy

[iriegnome]

New Belt today..

[Chobobulous]

Started ordering parts for b6 rebuild, thought about spray painting my 323 chrome.

[sketchman]

Started ordering parts for b6 rebuild, thought about spray painting my 323 chrome.

Haha. Do it!

[Chobobulous]

Haha. Do it!

Im just reading to make sure it would be legal lol. I figure 8 cans of paint should about do it with plenty left over.

[bravekozak]

Get a chrome wrap instead. Just in case you change your mind. Or, because you blinded the cops driving towards you, with the sun bouncing off your car. In Arizona, they outlawed polished stainless Jeep CJ-5 bodies from the Phillipines.

[Chobobulous]

Lol I won't change my mind about it. I think it would be funny.

I should do it to an aspire and bring it to Roswell.

[M3NTAL]

Got pulled over in mine for speeding, but got off with a seatbelt ticket. :headbang: