What have you done to your Festiva today!?

[eurotiva]

Got a new alternator. It seems they don't like 7,000 rpms.
Got a short shifter a couple weeks ago only put a few miles on it, seems way better. Have to see what happens at the track. 1-2 shift is killing me.

They don't like the rpms. That 1/2 shift is brutal under load

[Flyin4stroke]

What have you done to your Festiva today!?

Got a new alternator. It seems they don't like 7,000 rpms.
Got a short shifter a couple weeks ago only put a few miles on it, seems way better. Have to see what happens at the track. 1-2 shift is killing me.

[TorqueEffect]

Painted my Purpleish Prelude seats black with a couple cans of Dupli-color Fabric and Vinyl paint. Will report back with pics later. Read some good things about this Dupli-color fabric/vinyl paint. So far I am impressed, it looks nice and dried very quickly (granted it was in direct sunlight) seems to work great on plastic too, painted the handbrake console with what I had left and so far it is better to adhearing to plastic than any of that crappy Rustoleum, or Krylon plastic paint. But we will see how long it lasts.

Also a couple days ago I installed the manual belt receivers into my 91' (Had been using the stock ones from the autobelts) also has the recall plastic slip over pieces.

Since my Full/Auto console broke, I removed it, and put the stock cubby console back in, and moved the radio back in the stock position, and because of that had to remove the Taurus slide out Coin/Cup holder. Back to having just the single cup holder/ash tray. lol

[Spike]

'93: Realized I had a screw sticking out of the sidewall on one of my brand new (3300 miles) tires. Discount tire replaced it for $7. Thank God for warranties.

'89: Tomorrow begins the Aspire swap! woot Just bought 4x100 Tercel black steel wheels and put some '87 Corolla trim rings and center caps on them; they should clean up really nice.

[ottoparts]

Nothing!
However we did drag one home last night for my youngest son. The silver one with the blue fender.
Today we brought home my oldest sons second festy that was free and a truck pile of parts with it. His two are the yellow and the graphite colored ones.
So many cars in my driveway!

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[1990new]

Cleaned the plugs and put a new distributor gasket on Nellie today. Only 500 miles on her since her last oil change in June 2014.

[sketchman]

Should show everything pretty well.

Only a very tiny spot needs to be bent to clear the mounting ear. You can also see my mad sweet custom lower rad tubing. Lets me use the ME pump outlet and gives me more room closer to the block than the stock setup.

[shadetree]

Yea I'd like to see . Thank you .

[sketchman]

Picture please

I'll get pics as soon as I can. Probably tomorrow evening. I was surprised. It JUST barely fits.

[TorqueEffect]

Fitted a slim fan to the stock rad and painted the rad flat black with barbeque grill case paint. Love it.

FWIW you can fit a 14" slim eBay fan on the stock rad in the stock location, AND in push config with only some bending of the lip on the headlight mount location.

Speaking of fans, I need to get one to attach to my condenser, the radiator fan just doesn't cut it when the vehicle isn't moving.

[shadetree]

Picture please

[sketchman]

Fitted a slim fan to the stock rad and painted the rad flat black with barbeque grill case paint. Love it.

FWIW you can fit a 14" slim eBay fan on the stock rad in the stock location, AND in push config with only some bending of the lip on the headlight mount location.

[TorqueEffect]

Also just wired the auxiliary lights to come on with the low beams.

But I was bad and cut the low beam wire to tap into it since I didn't have one of those tools that lets you do that sort of thing without actually cutting the wire. :p

[TorqueEffect]

Finished the steering rack swap, still hear a bit of a clunk in the steering with the wheels on the ground sitting still, turning the wheel back and forth quickly. But at least it has 4 good tie-rods on it, and steering rack boots. Now it just needs an alignment, and the tires balanced from the uneven wear.

[Taco88]

Gutted the interioruploadfromtaptalk1430155886092.jpg
And zeroed in on rust, thank goodness for a donor car.uploadfromtaptalk1430156531587.jpguploadfromtaptalk1430156553767.jpg