New car, new goals. 91 Ford festiva

[paintme205]

Well I'm giving up on hauling engines in the back of my festiva.

Which means:

Boattail or closer to it. I didn't want to lose visibility so I extended the kammback another foot, and closed off the sides. I also finished the belly pan so it connects to the boattail. It's not perfect because of the exhaust being in the way but I think it should help.

My question is how much if any would I help to enclose the rear portion?

Since I can reached my goal of 60MPG at 60 MPH, I'm hoping these mods give me closer to 64-65MPG now at 60MPH.

Next mod is to put a kill switch on the alternator and see if it helps. I have 5 spare batteries at the moment so the cost is nothing.

Oh and it will be getting painted white....Can't complain about free sheet metal even if dirty.

[dirtydave]

Hell yeah! I love it!

[paintme205]

I haven't updated in awhile. I blew the headgasket doing a top speed run. 106 MPH on level ground.

I fixed it and it appears to be running great. Hoping to get some new MPG results shortly to confirm if it helped at all or just repaired a problem. I also haven't got any new numbers with the extended boat tail so that is on the list of things to do.

[willie@eco]

Man what ever happened to this? This sure was fun to read lol. Read the entire thing while at Sears as my wife shopped for 3 hrs and almost killed me with boredom lol. But this thread kept me well entertained haha. I have a 92 GL Sport but its so clean i dread screwing anything into it while doing a aero mod lol. I rather buy a different Festiva to hack and do some crazy things to it like done here. Loved reading this and hope to see more of this soon!