NEED HELP! Buying my first festiva!

[TheresGabe]

Wait... isn't a carby lx auto kind of a rare beast? Did you have her look underneath the passenger seat for the holy grail... I mean under seat tray/drawer?

[Prafeston]

I'm confused why it is even a carby if it's a 91? Especially since the 89 autos were the first to go efi..

[Mercilesslee]

Can someone explain the benefits of a carby and one without? Also will ask about the under seat tray tonight when the owner is home from work lol.

[Mercilesslee]

Uh oh should I be worried the engine is not original? :S

[DriverOne]

Re: NEED HELP! Buying my first festiva!

Wait... isn't a carby lx auto kind of a rare beast? Did you have her look underneath the passenger seat for the holy grail... I mean under seat tray/drawer?

There's only one carby auto that I know of, and that's htchbck's.

[TheresGabe]

SOMETHING IS UP HERE. THERE IS MISINFORMATION. AND THINGS CHANGED OUT IN THIS CAR.

OK..
That back seat IS an LX (Therefore it's not a '91)
That Transmission is NOT an LX ( No Carbys were autos).
The Carb is NOT a '91.

Hmmm...

[Prafeston]

Yeah sure seems like there are a lot red flags here. Unless you are getting a good deal I'd pass.

[Mercilesslee]

Would you consider 700$ a good deal and it is safe to drive for the next 4 months? Pretty hard to find a car you can drive for under 1000$. Does anyone know how to check vehicle history she gave me the VIN tonight: Vin# KNJBT07H6M6110773

I am still waiting on a few more pictures. This engine has been swapped with an older one hasn't it? Is it possible to convert from fuel injected to Carb? If so why would someone do this? Are there any other flaws with the motor you guys can see in the pictures?

Here are the pictures again for the people just reading this thread (might be buying for 700)

http://imgur.com/a/LKpWW

[Mercilesslee]

BERT! I NEED YOU! lol

[Bert]

Thanks for the info I will definitely bring a tool kit and poke around to make sure the frame is alright. The car only has 62000kms though why would a car rot that fast?

You and me both live in Ontario,Canada. One run through the salt spray in winter, and then parking in a heated garage, can and will destroy anything even if it's never driven it again. The lo-mile 'gems' that come up once in awhile are often rusted worse than cars that have gone through car washes and spring thaw puddles on a regular basis. Up here, at least.
But hey 63K (37,000 miles) is peanuts in the scheme of things, if you lust over little-used mechanicals, motors and transmissions.

Mercilesslee; you live in Ontario,Canada but where exactly is that? Kenora (Ontario,Canada) is a 2 day drive from Toronto (Ontario,Canada) and nearly half way across the Country, all the way to Vancouver. There are 11-12 million Ontario,Canada residents and yet 95% of them live along the Can/USA border.

[fastivaca]

PM sent....

[fastivaca]

Oops ops:... double post

[Prafeston]

700 hundred is a decent deal. I just worry about the rust underneath. Plus all the other red flags. Motor appears to be swapped so mileage is probably off. Mileage could be off anyway if someone just swapped in a new cluster too. I paid $700 for my Festiva and had to put another $300 into it to get it to pass inspection. It was pretty rust free though. Not much visible rust and the little rust there was underneath was just some surface rust. No rot through.

Here's what I got for $700.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC0hU...qZCt4kWrBGtiNQ

And here was my thread with pics.
http://www.fordfestiva.com/forums/sh...-My-92-Festiva

[fastivaca]

Motor appears to be swapped so mileage is probably off.

Rafe, what makes you think the motor is swapped?

[Bert]

BERT! I NEED YOU! lol

These cars don't, and never did, sell like 'hotcakes' so don't sweat the timing. As a matter of fact these days patience is often a virtue. Forum member Timmay shifted a Vancouver-based (ie like a 3 year Ontario car) Festy with BP engine, F tranny and Aspire fixins, just before Christmas, for a $1200 firesale price. If you're not a million miles away from me I will be happy to help out. If this is the same car as I alerted the forum to last year I did drool over it (the interior) at the time. Problem with auctions is prices are really low or really high and I wasn't prepared to devote a day to get involved in a bidding war over a B3 auto, new exhaust, newly painted rims and new 12 inch tires, none of which is of any use to me.