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    Jealous. I can't get anything better than 30 on a good day in my '97.

    Carby Car -- '89 Festiva, Escort carb/Rocketman adapter. FM8 Best Beater and Bad Luck award, FM9 Fan Favorite, July 2016 FOTM, and overall a crusty grumpy old man (Bucket List thread in Photo Gallery)
    Pearl -- '91 B6 Festiva
    '97 Aspire--yeah i'm about that Aspire life, no it's not a brake swap (yet)

    festyboy is THE PRETTIEST


  • #2
    Originally posted by lulu View Post
    Jealous. I can't get anything better than 30 on a good day in my '97.
    Are you talking about city driving? That would be normal. Do you have an automatic?

    Anyway, start a thread in the Repair Help forum. This mileage seems too low.
    90 Festy (Larry)--B6M (Matt D. modified B6 head), header, 5-speed, Capri XR2 front brakes, many other little mods
    09 Kia Rondo--a Festy on steroids!

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    • #3
      It's an auto. And that's highway MPGs. It has some issues though

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      Carby Car -- '89 Festiva, Escort carb/Rocketman adapter. FM8 Best Beater and Bad Luck award, FM9 Fan Favorite, July 2016 FOTM, and overall a crusty grumpy old man (Bucket List thread in Photo Gallery)
      Pearl -- '91 B6 Festiva
      '97 Aspire--yeah i'm about that Aspire life, no it's not a brake swap (yet)

      festyboy is THE PRETTIEST

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      • #4
        Tell your man to swap in a Festiva torque converter, your mpg will increase around town and you'll have better acceleration.
        Trees aren't kind to me...

        currently: 2 88Ls (Scrappy and Jersey), 88LX, 90L(Pepe), 91L, 91GL (Skippy) 93 GL Sport (the Mighty Favakk), 94 (Bruce) & 95 Aspire SEs, 97 Aspire (The Joker),
        94 Justy 4WD, 87 Fiero GT, plus 2 parts cars. That's my fleet.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by FestYboy View Post
          Tell your man to swap in a Festiva torque converter, your mpg will increase around town and you'll have better acceleration.
          What's acceleration? Is that an actual thing in an Aspire?

          Carby Car -- '89 Festiva, Escort carb/Rocketman adapter. FM8 Best Beater and Bad Luck award, FM9 Fan Favorite, July 2016 FOTM, and overall a crusty grumpy old man (Bucket List thread in Photo Gallery)
          Pearl -- '91 B6 Festiva
          '97 Aspire--yeah i'm about that Aspire life, no it's not a brake swap (yet)

          festyboy is THE PRETTIEST

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          • #6
            Originally posted by lulu View Post
            What's acceleration? Is that an actual thing in an Aspire?
            Aspires are ~300 lbs heavier and have a less efficient exhaust manifold than a Festiva's. And being a 3-speed auto, that hurts both acceleration and MPG. Worst of all possible combinations for Festivas/Aspires. A 5-speed is the only way to go to get decent mileage, but maybe as Arty says the Festy torque converter would help. I know nothing about Fespire automatics, and don't care to.
            90 Festy (Larry)--B6M (Matt D. modified B6 head), header, 5-speed, Capri XR2 front brakes, many other little mods
            09 Kia Rondo--a Festy on steroids!

            You can avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality--Ayn Rand

            Disaster preparedness

            Tragedy and Hope.....Infowars.com.....The Drudge Report.....Founding Fathers.info

            Think for yourself.....question all authority.....re-evaluate everything you think you know. Red-pill yourself!

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            • #7
              Yeah, the aspire converter lockup happens @17-1900 rpm ( mechanical) well before torque peak, so it dogs out. When the converter is allowed to stay spinning faster than input shaft speed, you gain torque multiplication and therefore better acceleration and you don't bog down the engine with the horrid gearing as much. Pepe will actually out run Bruce (auto>manual) as they both are stock.
              Caety's Kermit (96 auto) would never get above 21 with mixed ( mostly city) driving before her TCC gave up the ghost. Now she regularly hits 27 truly mixed driving. I've gotten 34+ highway with him now where before my best was just shy of 33.
              Trees aren't kind to me...

              currently: 2 88Ls (Scrappy and Jersey), 88LX, 90L(Pepe), 91L, 91GL (Skippy) 93 GL Sport (the Mighty Favakk), 94 (Bruce) & 95 Aspire SEs, 97 Aspire (The Joker),
              94 Justy 4WD, 87 Fiero GT, plus 2 parts cars. That's my fleet.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by FestYboy View Post
                Yeah, the aspire converter lockup happens @17-1900 rpm ( mechanical) well before torque peak, so it dogs out. When the converter is allowed to stay spinning faster than input shaft speed, you gain torque multiplication and therefore better acceleration and you don't bog down the engine with the horrid gearing as much. Pepe will actually out run Bruce (auto>manual) as they both are stock.
                Caety's Kermit (96 auto) would never get above 21 with mixed ( mostly city) driving before her TCC gave up the ghost. Now she regularly hits 27 truly mixed driving. I've gotten 34+ highway with him now where before my best was just shy of 33.
                Will the Festiva trans swap right in? We have a known good auto. My trans in my car was jacked from the beginning. Fluid never got filled after it left the factory, and the dealer never caught it. So my parents drove it quite some time with low fluid. It's awful, but it gets me where I need to go.

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                Carby Car -- '89 Festiva, Escort carb/Rocketman adapter. FM8 Best Beater and Bad Luck award, FM9 Fan Favorite, July 2016 FOTM, and overall a crusty grumpy old man (Bucket List thread in Photo Gallery)
                Pearl -- '91 B6 Festiva
                '97 Aspire--yeah i'm about that Aspire life, no it's not a brake swap (yet)

                festyboy is THE PRETTIEST

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                • #9
                  They are essentially the same save for the final drive and the torque converter. You MAY need to retain the mounts, but other than that...
                  Trees aren't kind to me...

                  currently: 2 88Ls (Scrappy and Jersey), 88LX, 90L(Pepe), 91L, 91GL (Skippy) 93 GL Sport (the Mighty Favakk), 94 (Bruce) & 95 Aspire SEs, 97 Aspire (The Joker),
                  94 Justy 4WD, 87 Fiero GT, plus 2 parts cars. That's my fleet.

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