I could be wrong but I don't think ford ever offered anything but a multi-port injection system. If you see anything that looks like a carb it's not injected. If it has a long looking fuel rail it's injected. As I said I could be wrong though.

 

Just look at the air cleaner , if it's mounted on the top of the engine , it's a carb . If it's on the side near the fender, it's fuel injected . Or, the real easy way is just look at the info sticker under the hood . BTW, if you want to jump it at the local dirt bike track , they land much better in reverse ....
Sarge

 

the air cleaner is on top, and when you take it off it looks like its a carb there....so im gonna guess its a carb

 

ahahaah, oh man the Festiva brings back memories... a girl in high school had one and she'd always leave it in neutral but with the parking brake set, so a couple of us would lift the rear up till the tires cleared and push her car up on this hill next to campus... we musta done that 5-6 times before she started leaving it in gear

hope yer not a big boy, those things are teeeny tiny

 

They did make a carbed model in 1989. I wanna build one in the near future total sleeper. Check this out.
http://www.cwstuning.com/gallery/Fastiva

turbo charged festiva, oh yeah.

 

very nice....almost looks like a civic hatch back, mine looks quite rough and i dont think i care much about the cosmetics tho....i want it running good and getting good gas milage.....gas went up again here

 

Yeah the gas went up again in maryland, sucks to look at the gas pump and see 11 gallons of gas when i just spent 20 bucks. I finally bought new injectors for the dakota, bosch stage 3 19lb, hopefully they will help.

 

i hear ya on the gas prices

i keep driving the hell out of my geo metro hoping at some point gas prices would come down so i could drive my pickup again. guess not.

those fastivas can take a beating. my cousin's husband put coil spring extenders all the way around on his and installed larger than stock tires with studs for the icy winters. it has lasted good considering i doubt it has seen an oil change in the past several years....

 

http://www.shotimes.com/SHO4_jayl.html

now here is a wild festiva...est 310 hp on juice!!!

to think...ford built 7 of these with just the turbo @ 210 hp

 

Wasn't the Festiva the car KIA made for them? Besides small I never heard anything bad about them. Gas prices sure are getting crazy everywhere.

 

Yeah kia made the festiva.....and maybe the aspire....but im not sure

 

Wow, I've seen this guys site posted all over the internet. He lives near me, and also built the VW Coupe de Golf, a VW golf with a Cadillac Northstar V8 engine, among other things of course.

The guy pictured here
http://www.cwstuning.com/gallery/Fastiva/0207scc_trek21_zoom
Had an accident riding a pocket bike and is in kind of rough shape right now. He's a local legend, and world renowned.

Re:Festivas great little fun cars

 

Yes, the Aprisa is also a Kia product.

I had two Festivas -- one an 88 stick and one an 89 auto. Both red.

They reminded me very much of my first car, a '62 Austin Mini 850.

Both the kias and the mini could corner like a brick outhouse. I always wabnted to get my hands on a set of low-profile tires to see how the handling would be improved...

Ack

 

thats only 1.81 a gallon I havent seen those prices for a while it is curently 2.35 a gallon for low grade lucky I dont have to drive much

 

One of the strangest hotrods I've ever driven was honestly a Yugo . One of the last years in production there was a fuel injected model with the nasty little Fiat in it . This dumb thing bone stock would fry the tires in the first 3 gears without breaking a sweat . Cornering was fun , it would easily lift a rear tire off the ground if pushed hard . Predictable handling anyway , and wheelspin at will . Too bad the door handles and assorted parts fell off on rough roads ....
Sarge

 

I had an 88 Festiva. Yep, they were made by Kia using some of the Mazda 323 design. Very little but apparently there were some similarities. They don't have carburators, they have throttle body injection. In 89 they went to the MPI. It was a great little car. I sold it at 186000+ miles only because I had a job and could get something better. It lasted me through undergrad (seven years) and grad school (two years). Wouldn't surprise me if it still was running strong. I replaced the timing belt at 66k and 128k, the plugs somewhere in there and never had any problems.

One thing to pay attention to, the rear wheels are held on to the spindle with a big nut, no surprise there. The surprise is is that there is no cotter pin, you have to use a chissle to pound the edge of the nut into a groove on the spindle. Not to big a deal once you see it but you want to do it right.

One thing I loved about it, you could almost work on the entire car with a 10mm wrench. That and I could get tires mounted for around $30. Now that I think about it, the water pump took a dump somewhere along the way but it came out and went back in with no effort. Hmm, the only other thing that gave me an issue was the alternator. Again, it was really cheap and very easy to work on.

I really recommend them as a means of cheap, reliable transportation. Good choice for your purposes. Fold the seats down and you can get a lot of junk in them too.

Bryan

 

[BTW, if you want to jump it at the local dirt bike track , they land much better in reverse ....
Sarge ]

I'm not sure if I should ask how you know this, so I will just leave it at that!
Jeff

 

Well, it all started when this kid pulls up in our wheelin spot and says "bet ya can't catch me" . He was in that little Ford , I had the Zuk . Needless to say, I bent the front axle housing chasing that little *((&*^&(** around the woods . The Zuk when it hit the jumps and berms just went airborne , the stupid little Ford actually made out better until the lower radiator support gave up . We wired it back into place and decided it was my turn to drive it . A buddy climbed in , complete with a helmet and a grin , then off we went . The second jump broke the repaired radiator again , so another wire job and 1/2 roll of duct tape we were back in business . It was simple , the front end had all the weight . So , to prove the theory we tried one of the jumps in reverse . The dumb thing landed perfect and only bounced twice . A quick stab of the brakes and mash the go pedal with the wheels cut hard you can dig 180* pretty fast . The third trip over the jump was a bit too much , I think I hit it at over 30mph . The rear bumper dug in bad , my seat back broke off and my shotgun partner put a huge dent in the roof with that helmet . Bounced it off two trees and ended up in the creek on it's side . We laughed so hard we just left the car there for awhile and decided enough was enough . Dumb thing will still start right up , we gotta wire up the radiator again before the next outing , maybe some weekend soon . My neck still hurts , it is so hard to look out the back window while dodging trees and trying to line it up for the jump , then snapping yourself around straight ahead and waiting for the impending impact ....that really is the strangest feeling flying backwards....
Sarge

 

as far as I fnow the festiva comes with a 1.3L carbed or FI motor produced by mazda. this motor was available in the african model mazda 323 as far as I know. It should accept the mazda B6( 1.6 SOHC FI), B6T(1.6 DOHC turbo FI), BPT(1.8 DOHC turbo FI) and trannies.

I did the B6Turbo swap in my 89 323 LX grocery getter and found it to be a direct bolt in. Very straight forward and very little harness modifications. with the MX-6 FMintercooler and 2psi more boost the motor puts out an estimated 150 160 hp from a stock 140hp. all I know is this car flies! and I'm sure that in a small festiva you'd be eating V8's for breakfast!

if you wanna up the anti look out for the Mazda 323 GTX drivetrain, turbo and 4wd!

 

Yeah, the mazda motors will bolt in, but their are some issues with the swap. The car was made by Kia, motor by mazda and sold as a ford to counter all the truck market smog credits. Sports Compact Car has a project festiva with a B6T in it. They used the stock festiva tranny which isnt strong at all and has no available limited slip. They said something about using an aspire tranny also. With the stock tranny you can use several different clutches one being a <nobr>suzuki</nobr> swift clutch but a little machine work is needed. I am really thinking of building one these little cars, All I need is a motor to appear in the pick n' pull.

 

I take it that you own a turbo rabbit, turbodrabbit, I'm actually looking for a 1.8T to swap into my 1980 MK I rabbit, if you can help me out I might be able to help you out in the B6T dept.

these motors aren't the easiest to find in the local U-pull yards and they go quick when they are.

mike