1993 Festiva L progression thread

[Festiva_Fred]

Just got back from driving the car around some, and went to get gas at a small town nearby, and I saw a 88-89 silver festy zip by the gas station, guy driving it was staring at my car.. bet he was jealous :lol: his was completely stock and rusty.. prolly just his beater car..

[freshtiva]

I bet it feels good to drive it finally after all the work you put in to it. Hows that tranny working ?

[sasquatch]

thats great that it passed the day that i got mine leagle to drive, i drove around all day...

[Festiva_Fred]

I bet it feels good to drive it finally after all the work you put in to it. Hows that tranny working ?

It does, pretty good for the most part, Shifts alright but hangs back a little sometimes, probably just needs to be used more and it'll go away. I'm going to change the filter sometime, but for now it'll do.

thats great that it passed the day that i got mine leagle to drive, i drove around all day...

Yeah I drove around alot today

[freshtiva]

It does, pretty good for the most part, Shifts alright but hangs back a little sometimes, I'm going to change the filter sometime, but for now it'll do.

I think they all hang on to second some, I would change the filter though, who know when it was last changed.

[Festiva_Fred]

Dammit!! Why?!?

Went to start the car up this morning, cranked it a few times, acted like it wanted to start but didn't. Then I tried it again and it just quit, nothing happens now when I push the start button, thought maybe the fuse going from the battery to the button blew but it didn't. So either the starter took a dump on me or the button did Sucks.. broke down on me on the 3rd day of being able to drive it O'well I'll get it fixed, even if it is the starter I can steal one off the 89' to make this car run.

[freshtiva]

Bummer ! One more advantage of manuals.... push starts. How is in your main fuseable link ?

[Festiva_Fred]

It's fine, figured out the problem, the push start button crapped out on me, I can still start it by jumping the starter for now. Just glad it wasn't the starter that crapped out.

[batstiva]

Cool, an easy fix by comparison to what it could have been. You getting another push button?

Maybe it got jealous because you were messing with the other one.

[Festiva_Fred]

Not sure yet..but probably, haha maybe that's why

[wrongfulleaf]

What up! I just spent about the last hour reading this entire thread and congrats! It looks amazing! I did have one question for you and everyone else that is subscribed....How hard is to to do the front end aspire swap? I currently need to change my inner tie rods and I figured if I could come across an aspire front end (i think i can) I would just switch it out instead. A time frame would be amazing along with "new" parts that I would need.

[Maxtiva]

Here is a link to Aspire brake swap: http://www.clubprotege.com/wil/howto/aspirebrakes.htm

[Festiva_Fred]

Update- Alot of things have changed on the car since last time.

Got a brand new radiator now since the old one blew..




And today I gutted the interior, and converted it to manual belts, removed the back seat and plastics also. It's really bare inside now but I don't mind it.







Glad I finally have manual belts, I hate the electric belts!! :lol:

Exterior is a little different also, put some manual mirrors on it, and the stock grill is back on it for now. I think it still looks pretty good.

[wybnrml]

I remember when I had my rear seat and stuff out it was noisy driving it, suprised me that it helped so much in sound deadning.

[batstiva]

Nice work Fred. I'm still trying to get used to the auto seat belts in my 90. Only hung myself a couple of times.:p

Still looks good with the second gen. grill, but I think I like the other one better.