Proud new owner of a 1991 Ford Festiva 5spd! GL!

[Safety Guy]

That is one niiiiiiiiiiiiiice looking Festiva! Welcome and hello!

I like the cheesy graphics too.

Next spring you can look for brake swap stuff and in the meantime enjoy your new stock brakes.

Question: Are those AR Estrellas 13 X 5.5" or 14 X 6" in size? If the latter, you won't need new wheels. The 14" Estrellas are dual pattern with both Festiva (4 X 114.3mm) and Aspire (4 X 100mm) bolt sizes. If they're 13s, then your other pattern is 4 X 108mm, which is a waste for Festiva owners (and what my '91 AquaMutt has). On the other hand, the 13s only weigh 12.5 pounds each, which is fairly light.

Be sure and check the following soon:

-hard brake lines for corrosion
-ball joints for too much play (if one lets loose, you'll have a catastrophic failure of your front suspension!)
-main fuse block (most of us switch from the old style fusible links to newer hard plastic fuses)
-steering rack boot

Enough advice for now. Enjoy!

Oh, one more thing: Ohiostiva Fall Fling is Sunday, November 3rd. Look it up in the meets section and see if you can make it!

Karl

[drddan]

That is one PURDY Festy!!!! :smile: I likey!!!

Welcome to the forum, and have some Festy fun!!!!

[ColdFlame53]

Thank you everyone! I just bought a tach and want to mount it on the left side top of the dash but i cant figure out how to take the dash apart....

[Zanzer]

Welcome! And as everyone else said.... Nice Car!!!

Get a factory tach cluster and you won't have to mount the aftermarket one....you'll have one right beside the speedometer



Check the For Sale section. There are a few in there for sale.

[ColdFlame53]

I really like the look of the aftermarket one and I have already purchased a tach so i might as well install it

[ColdFlame53]

Here she is!

[Zanzer]

Dude! That thing is a creampuff!! SCORE! And please keep the splash graphics, love 'em! :thumbup:


Hehehe, I also like how the camera makes it look like a RHD. If that were real, people on here would be loosing their minds! :mrgreen:

[ColdFlame53]

Hahaha! Yeah everything is all backwards when using a laptop and i am definitely keeping the splash graphics i might get diamond racing steelies (white of course).

[ColdFlame53]

Does anybody have any tips or instructions for installing my tach?!

[eurotiva]

Stock tach? Aftermarket? There's a wire close to the coil that has the signal. Someone will know the color.

[ColdFlame53]

Hey Eurotiva its a aftermarket tach white green and black wires i believe. Its all in the video.Mounting it is going to be a b**** lolol

[Aaronbrook37]

http://www.fordfestiva.com/forums/showthread.php?13262-Tach-install-pics-pg-2&highlight=leapin+tach

Leapin's a good friend of mine who might be able to help you out with the installation logistics! Welcome to the forums. I think you're really going to like it here. A Festiva is definitely the right choice for you regardless of what you're looking to accomplish with it. Be sure to keep us posted if you have any dreams, questions, or concerns about the car!

[ColdFlame53]

I definitely will Aaron! Right now the only dreams are getting a tach putting on a new serpentine belt and than aspire brake swap next spring

[Larry Hampton]

Larry, you should add Escort dome lamp.

Looking at the video, it already has the Escort dome lamp. What I should have added was that it needs a wing. I have a white wing that I plasti-dipped black for my red car. Maybe if he comes up with a red wing, I'll do a straight swap

Now I'm wondering what forum member was the PO, it looks well taken care of.

[bravekozak]

The tach wire is yellow/green or (if you give up breaking your neck looking for it under the dash) you could just run an extra wire from your ignition coil directly to your tach.