What have you done to your Festiva today!?

[firebush357]

I could Fit 3 in my garage if my wife would let me get rid of all of the crap that is piled in the back of it... I'm going to go in there today and move some stuff around to make better use of the space and finish wiring some outlets and stuff.

[TorqueEffect]

Nothing.

Too friggin' hot!!!

[Team Lightning]

I've been working on my VW suspension for my 90.

[fezzy]

Went to get the car inspected yesterday, it passed everything, except the dust-boot cover on rack steering slipped off on the way there. Fortunately he saw it was new and just one of those things, have to fix it before it passes completely. Because it is a generic after market dust boot cover, it uses a cable strap to hold it on.
me thinks now I may have to use the proper steel strap that gets tightened with that special tool for strapping, which I don't have.

The other thing they got me on was the center eye-level brake light. Thought it was a reflector, globe was missing.
Tried to put new globe, but wires have no current to the globe holder. Worked back to loom's connectors with test lamp, still no current at looms main connector.
Spliced a live wire to test from working brake light and it works. Therefore the earth wire on the globe hold is working to.
So now in the process of threading a wire from a working brake light to the center eye-level light. Not a simple task as it sounds because that center light is on the hatch-tail-gate.
Lots of plastic panels are off just to thread a wire as neatly as possible.
I got 3 months to do it all or the process/paperwork starts all over again.

On the road trip to the inspection place and back, car went well, all running smoothly.

[firebush357]

So I was supposed to clean up the Garage last night but I got preoccupied with something else so I decided to do my seat swap instead. I never realized how heavy the Festiva seats were... I swear they seem to weigh a few pounds more than the Escort and Protege seats that I pulled out of Junk cars the other day.

This was my Drivers Seat


So I pulled some old dirty Protege seat from one of the local junk yards. I would have pulled 2 but the yard wanted to charge me $40 a seat and they were 2 different colors so I only took 1. I pulled the covers off of the seat and threw them in the washer and let it run through twice to get all of the filth out. They were Dirty and Smelled Funky


Here is what it looked like after fitting it up to the Festiva seat rail. Much Better! Now I just have to find a way to clean the headrest.

[TorqueEffect]

Until I can get an exhaust header for my BP, I just hammered an exhaust adapter pipe into the stock manifold, and used one of those flexible universal exhaust pipes as a down pipe.

Currently only running a glasspack held up by a ghetto metal clothes hanger. lol

So now it is drivable now, still just too loud for any extended period driving on the highway, and probably too loud for the cops. lol

But I plan on getting a muffler of some type. Maybe one of those muffler's everyone hates. An eBay fartcan muffler. :p

[ajbremer]

Great job on the seat fire bush357! Does the seat fabric come off easy from one seat to the other? I never really looked at how they are assembled.

[firebush357]

Yeah super simple, I just followed This Thread. The only thing I did differently was pull the fabric off and wash it. Be careful when doing this because there are metal wires inside the foam the the seat cover is hog ringed to to keep the seams in the correct place. I just cut the hog rings out and replaced them with small zip ties when I put the cover back on.

That seat was pulled from a 1996 Mazda Protege LX. The Plastic cover on the side doesn't fit back exactly the same but you can barely notice. I also hacked up the little seat recline handle from the Mazda to make it fit because I didn't have one for the driver side.

[1990new]

Didn't work on any Festivas today, I used Trixie, a rope and pulley to hoist my new water heater 5 feet up off the garage floor to install on a corner shelf. Old one had a 10 year warranty and lasted 11 years.
Was up on the ladder soldering a connection and came within an inch of torching my left eye when the map gas cylinder slipped out of my hand. My left eyebrow and eyelash are now gone, my eye and my face is a bit red but I was luck that it didn't do permanent damage.
Woke up Saturday morning to water leaking out my old one. Finally tonight, my first hot shower since Friday night.

[TorqueEffect]

Got the BP realigned in the engine bay, stupid alternator pulley kept hitting the inner frame rail under hard acceleration, or hard left turns.

Now I seemed to have got everything aligned properly.

BP sounds NICE with just a glasspack. lol. Still too loud for highway use though.

[TorqueEffect]

Sprung a leak by the IAC. Didn't feel like messing with it, so I just bypassed the IAC for the time being.

VICS is also disabled. But found you don't need to zip tie the valves open, all you have to do is connect a vacuum line directly to the actuator from the intake, and as soon as the engine starts, it snaps the valves open, but I find this kills low end performance significantly.

Then again, I am not noticing much improvement with them closed either, probably need to get my exhaust sorted first, need that back pressure to help exhaust scavenging, having only a glasspack isn't going to do anything for my exhaust scavenging.

Here is a very technical explanation of it all. http://www.veryuseful.com/mustang/te...Scavenging.pdf

[jawja jim]

Installed my brand new, NOS, FoMoCo distributor on the 89 Auto. Rockauto had it for $122 shipped-no core, in the original package that sat on someone's shelf for a couple of decades.
I ordered it despite the fact that the picture was obviously not the right one. When it proved to be the correct one, I ordered the other one they had and it turned out to be the one in the picture. It is for a 87-88 Ranger(I think), but was in a Festiva box. They cheerfully gave me a full refund and told me to keep the wrong one. Anybody need one?

[w4rkry]

Ol steev got some updates

[ATTACH=CONFIG]19889[/ATTACH]

I have the same wheel in Red!

[Spike]

Installed front MK2 custom coilovers and a set of molded mudflaps on Nancy.

Next is rear coilovers and re-paint of front and rear bumpers. Gonna be a great driver for Madness, yessiree.

Joe

[jawja jim]

Tach cluster and variable wipers installed on the unicorn. I'm glad to have the "lights on" buzzer on this car, now. I've left the lights on 4 times in the last couple of weeks going to the pool league. The last time, someone came in and announced that "a blue sports car" has the lights on. I don't recall a Festy being called a sports car before.