What have you done to your Festiva today!?

[Oren09]

Finally buffed and polished my new fender and did the hood again. They're both nearly as shiny as the rest of my car.
The bumper and grill are next.



Then I visited one of my old haunts and high centered backing down a trail. I got out 5 minutes later by stuffing crap under the front driver's side tire.



And then, me and a friend of mine played around with a universal trailer hitch. It was designed for trucks and minivans and we could only get one bolt on each side to line up with the tow hooks. Wasn't going to happen, haha.
I'm not sure why I want a trailer hitch so bad, as I have a truck, but its been on my project list forever.

[RhodeStiva]

Finally got it running good and left the lights on yesterday. Dang it. I'm so dumb sometimes.

[scitzz]

Finally painted my rear bumper to match the rest of the car. Not too shabby for a rattle-can job I think.

Mine next!

[scitzz]

that almost doesn't even look real Rog..

but looks awesome!!

X2! Amazing job!

[crazyrog17]

I'm exited to get them on the car but I need to get an alignment before I do

[walth]

that almost doesn't even look real Rog..

but looks awesome!!

[crazyrog17]

[johnsonjaco]

almost finished putting in a dealer a/c into my '89 carb... just need to finish up the wiring (the plug don't match up correct but almost there)... then tomorrow I hope to start my tranny swap.... oh and need to finish wiring up my new tach

[Christ]

Swapped coils, which fixed nothing. Cleaned cap and rotor, which helped. Found that timing advance vacuum lines were on the dizzy backwards, fixed that.

While cleaning the cap and rotor, noticed that the rotor looked new in the middle and on one side, but had heavy carbon on the right edge, looking at it installed. Need to adjust ignition timing.

[gauge_half_inch]

Finally drove my turbo festy after sitting for 3 months with low compression on #4. Still low and pushing mass amounts of oil everywhere, but still running strong. I had almost forgotten how fun that car is to drive. Time to get moved into the new house and get the new engine assembled and installed before Indystiv.a

[500dollarfestiva]

Choke Plate

My carb didn't have a choke plate, so I took one off of a Isuzu Impulse and modified it to fit.

[RazorWing]

I removed the door hinge screwed into my poor Festy, fixed the hatch latch, and put in a temporary caulk into the holes to keep rust from developing until I can give the holes a more permanent fix. One step at a time. ^_^

[scitzz]

I gave the lady back her tire iron and thanked her several times and she went along her way. I put the Mrs. to work getting ahold of my dad while I scrounged through everything to find anything I could use to cut or puncture the brake line. The wife joined in the search. Anything sharp, anything at all... Spare fuse? No, I can find something better. After several more minutes shuffling through what little was in the car and shouting things to look for: knife, razor blade, scraper, sharp pencil, scissors, cuticle nippers, finger nail clippers, pick. My wife interjects my listing with, "I've got tweezers and a roach clip."

Score!

So I take the alligator clip and use it like a saw to remove the rubber layer. I then took the tweezers and began digging at the nylon braid. I just can't quite get through. After about five minutes digging furiously trying to break my car to drive it home I think I'm close enough to blow it with the pedal. So I get up off the hot pavement and hop into the driver's seat and push as hard as I can... Pop! Now the moment of truth... Success!

The caliper released. The Mrs. called dad back while I limped home without brakes. That was my afternoon.

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This is exactly why I don't even get out of bed without a knife in my pocket! I don't leave the house without a backup knife to my knife!

[link5186]

New-used hlas installed on the bullet.

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[Damkid]

Today I wired up non-heated O2 sensors into my festiva and then fired it up and it actually idles on its own again (still on the stock ECU)