What have you done to your Festiva today!?

[bobstad]

[QUOTE=TorqueEffect;690077]Pic of the seats, one seat before and one seat after. Gotta say they look sharp, almost like racing seats painted black.

So, the darker seat is the "after" one? Behind the seat in front in the photo...

Are these for a Festiva; and what have you done?

I'm reminded of a red '67 Mustang fastback bought as a clapped out two year old repo someone's wife had gotten immobile while he'd been at war with the Army in Vietnam; with a white interior she'd let their children play in, so that the carpeting was covered by stale French fries when purchased through the loan company a couple friends of my father's worked at.

I'd gotten some spray stuff called Marhyde which was very popular then, and redid the whole interior black; which turned out great and lasted the several years I had the car, despite crappy moist Pacific northwest weather and a leaky rear window.

Unless a person is wealthy and/or into leather some other way; black seems about the best color for any car's interior. Not necessarily so for a paint job, since the most difficult color to hide any sheet metal flaws; somehow, black seems to be great for car interiors.

Probably a person could experiment, and come up with alternatives; though just the right color and shade would have to be an artist's conception, I think. Good, if you're lucky; otherwise, easily yucky. Like an other than black tuxedo, I guess?

[bobstad]

Well, day before yesterday got sort of wild; at least. I ended up asking my upstairs neighbor to tow me to Seattle; where there's a shop I've chosen to fix up my now two summers down '91 Festiva "Hyugo." She's a great person, a career Alzheimer's care giver at that about three decades or more, close to my age; who was living in this apartment complex when I moved in during February of '08. Someone here quite a few years before me; who is a fantastic mechanic, a musician and a horse woman.

I was riding my old ten speed away from some grocery shopping Sunday afternoon, when I saw her on her pedal power bicycle at the local laundromat we all have to go to now, since this apartment complex is so cheap they refuse to repair the washers or dryers any more.

The reason she'd been astride, who also has mentioned she rides a suicide clutch Indian motorcycle; was due to finding one of the front tires on her white two-door '65 Ford Galaxie 500 hardtop flat that morning. After what amazed me, driving over to the Winthrop, WA area on some sort of a lark; mainly to buy a certain type of chocolate sold only at the Diablo Dam area city gift shop en route.

I'd told her that I'd imagined her car was pretty much an "in-county" ride, decent for getting around locally; though not really up for such a grand enough jaunt: Thus, my notion of the tow into Seattle; which she'd taken more than a little askance, I can tell I'll have to let sink in and mellow at least a little while. She's suggested I use the Mexican owned shop just a block up the street, so this is some heavy politics to work on; worth noting that the shop in Seattle's Rainier Valley also seems Mexican owned.

Simply a better vibe; in the sense of being someplace I like going generally...with both Seattle's jazz venue The Royal Room, and the Life Enrichment Bookstore in the same block there-the manager of the latter place, who recommended the shop to me. [http://theroyalroomseattle.com/ [https://www.facebook.com/pages/Lems-...03141953032997

The Galaxie sure is peculiar looking nowadays; after an ignominious experience for such a venerable rust bucket type, in reality sleeper; when a few years ago she'd managed to cream someone traveling at enough speed her car is now what I describe as "Popeye with a monocle." The driver's side single headlight still wildly askew if functional, and the two vertical stock sealed beams on the left, holding forth more normally; that for quite a while were all the forward illumination the car'd had despite her frequently working night shifts.

[TorqueEffect]

Pic of the seats, one seat before and one seat after. Gotta say they look sharp, almost like racing seats painted black.

[Axlander9289]

I installed Aspire knuckles and front brakes on the Festiva, having installed Aspire drums on the stock axle beam a couple weeks ago (Long story). During my post-assembly test drive, one of the junkyard calipers locked up making for a harrowing 15 MPH drive home. Brand-new calipers from Rockauto are on the way. Estimated installation date is one week from 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