Progress on my festy

[stefan]

Heres a little summary of the work i've been doing to my festy.

When i got it it was dead and the interior was GROSS!

I just did a few minor tuneup things and thats all it took to get it running. But then on it's maiden voyage the timing belt broke! :x so i replaced that, and while i was at it i replaced the water pump, and flushed the coolant. Now its running again.

With that taken care of i moved my efforts to the interior.





and those pictures dont even do justice! it was gross in there. in the drivers foot well there was more than an inch of ice that i had to chip out.

So none of that was staying. I ripped out the interior completely. Everything but the dash was trashed.

The carpet was the worst, it was MOLDY underneath. There was a yellowish mold underneath. Thats why it smelled in there! So by now you must get the idea, with all that water what condition do you think the floor boards were in?





yay! fun!

so i cut out all the rust and welded in patches. then i coated the floor with tremclad (rustoleum in the US). But that wasn't good enough! then i got some truck bed liner in aresol cans and coated the floor with that!



Then i started hitting junkyards so get new interior pieces.

i scored a really nice headliner



and some nice plastic pieces.



so i whent to work putting in that new headliner



i put in the insulation. hey, you need all the insulation you can get up here in canada :lol:



and then finally the headliner, with new A&B pillar mouldings



i found an unbelievably clean carpet (atleast really clean for up here)

I cleaned it good first with the central vac inside the house before putting it in.

here it is on its way in



and all fitted.



while i was at it i made a new cover for the spare tire.



i transferred the plastic guides and the carpet pieces over to the new one.



I also got new speaker shelves and minty rear seatbelts.



and thats all i got for now.

i still need to find seats, door panels, front seatbelts, and cargo area panels. The only problem is there arent any festivas in the yards here that have these pieces (that or there destroyed :roll: )
It must have something to with the extreme temperatures up here or something, but i havent seen one car where the door panel vinyl wasn't all cracked.

[fastivaca]

Hi Stefan,

Looking really good! Keep up the good work.

Did you have any trouble with the headliner? Mine has to be replaced as there's a big hole in it at the back.

[stefan]

The headliner was tricky. you have to be careful, it was really fragile. Its held in with two sided tape which is a pain to remove.
When your putting it in make sure to put the flex rods in the pinches in the roof



although it may seem like the right way, not the holes like this



even then i still cant get some wrinkles out of it



defiantly not the easiest job

[muscle_Car1]

Hey great restoration. Save as many festiva's as you can.

[Festiva GTX]

Your best friend bottle of spray protect for any color plastic! It will stop Sun's deadly UV ray cause the plastic get cracked or become alike sand when you rubbing it.

Caution: don't spray on any clear plastic! such like speedometer, clock, and etc...

If you do that, It will keep long lasting same like that.

[stefan]

thanks for the tip. i did notice that my new panels are very brittle, prone to getting scraped very easily just like the old ones, and i dont want them to end up looking like my old ones. (see second pic in first post)

My dash had a very dirty look to it. There was lots of dust stuck in textured surface and i couldnt get it out with water.

I used some of this stuff, rubbing it in with a tooth brush and it looks like brand new.



Ill get a picture of the dash later, right now its covered in a million piles of clips and screws

[hotrodin4me]

looks great stevan . going to try and remove a headliner this week from a parts car any tips ? just a word of caution prolong use of armorall will dry and crack plastic and rubber products. keep up the good work

[festivaWES]

Yeah X2 ^^^ looks really clean!!

[xanthinic12]

now would be a good time to install the escort domelight

[packrat427]

Great job , you done good Stefan , it really looks great !!

That car has came a long way so far , I am looking forward to more updates.

Did you get carpet for the back of the rear seat ??

[glacius182]

Impressive, good job!

[stefan]

Did you get carpet for the back of the rear seat ??

i got the carpet for the cargo area, but not for the back of the seat.



For obvious reasons, i want to get a new seat

[hotrodin4me]

check your p.m.

[htchbck]

looking great man, you deserve a medal or something for your amazing effort in rescuing that poor festiva from almost certain death if you hadn't gotten it!
:salute: :salute: :salute: :salute: :salute:

[freshtiva]

Wow, good effort, nice work :!: