Well, regarding my previous topic ( one sad day for felly - BRISKODA - The Skoda Forums ), I'm now well on my way to bringing that poor thing back to life. I've already found an organ donor: a -99 1.9D dark green hatchback felly.

I originally thought about putting the blue 1.3mpi as spares, but the new felly is way more rusty (the wrecked one has no rust what so ever), so the diesel will be torn apart. Few questions and thoughts popped to mind straight away, since I'm scavenging the car and sending the rest out for junk.

a) The 1.9D has power steering, the 1.3 doesn't. Does the 1.9 have the same PAS pump as the 1.3 would use? In other words: theoretically, do I have all the resources needed to put power steering on the 1.3 (the piping and drive belts will be renewed)? (and yes, I know it aint easy)

Are the transmissions alike?

c) I'll get alloys, yeee!!

d) I'll keep and do a thorough maintenance on the 1.9 engine, just for fun. Maybe then swap it on the other car or sell it forward.. (or maybe do something crazy with it)

EDIT : I will be selling parts from the spare car, but Ill make a new thread for that in the proper section.

Edited 7 May, 200917 yr by Jaypee

i might be interested in the steering wheel if its got an airbag matey. My fun's steering wheel is disgusting and needs replacement. Might have the sun visors as well?

...might need to make a new topic for sales, so this one won't be hijacked. vilguy, I don't have the car yet, but I'll check when it arrives and when the tearing begins.

No doubt TeflonTom will add his wisdom to this thread as soon as he finds it and sort things out. However, re: transmission - the 1.9D is most certainly geared differently (compare rev range of diesel and petorl engines)

The 1.3 petrol and 1.9D gearboxes are probably completely different; compare not only peak revs, but peak torque of the engines.

I realize the gearboxes have different gear ratios, but are the outer dimensions similar?

I think you will find all the Felicia gearboxes are the same, just with different ratios and bellhousing mounts for the 1.3/1.6/1.9 engines. See this thread for more details:

http://briskoda.net/favorit-felicia-fun-forman/felicia-gear-ratios/108381/#post1255273

I might haveto drive around in the "spare-parts-car" for this summer cause I got a new job and I need a working car to get there.

Anyways, I started to take a closer look of the damage to my felly.

Popped the hood.. as you can see, the impact hit straight to the left headlight, which makes things difficult:

After removing the bumper I noticed that the steel body for the bumper also took some damage and is now in a funny angle.

First piece of rust on the car found :eek:

Headlights off. The total picture of the damage is starting to appear:

I started to take the side fender off, which turned out to be a real bitch to do! I'm not sure if the siliconish sealant which is in EVERY seam of the fender is factory made or is it some aftermarket antirust stuff, but I'm beginning to hate it. You basically haveto cut your way through every seam.

Also, the fender is held in place by numerous screws and ONE (!!!) spotweld !

After this I had to call it a day since the rain was starting to bother working..

So by the looks of it, I'm in for some serious metal bending or I can just cut the whole corner off the spare-parts car with an angle grinder and weld it on this one..

Another twist in this episode ... The deal about the spare-parts-felly, which I was supposed to buy on monday went sour, and the guy sold it to someone else, so now I have no spare parts and no running car.

So what do I do, I need to start going to work on monday and I need a car? I decided to put the one on my yard back together. So after an hour or so of hammertime:

And the result:

:rofl:

Sure, it's missing a headlight and some trimmings + the hood aint pretty, but it still runs like a champ.

I started to take the side fender off, which turned out to be a real bitch to do! I'm not sure if the siliconish sealant which is in EVERY seam of the fender is factory made or is it some aftermarket antirust stuff, but I'm beginning to hate it. You basically haveto cut your way through every seam..

As someone who did this recently you have my sympathies. Eventually I found the best way to get through it was to use a stanley knife and to push hard into the joining and pull down and do this a few times then pull the wing. I also had to contend with the captive nuts snapping off behind the metal. Sure this wasn't an issue in the top ones which were accessible at the back, but I had to grind the heads off some and I can't put a bolt back in there.

I also found when taking some of this stuff off where rust was that it had held water in. Can't be doing much to prevent the rust if that's going on.

Nice job of straightening, all things considered.

Thanks. I mocked the hood just a bit more, but other than that the car is in daily use as it is. I should buy a headlight and a front turn signal to make the car a bit more legal, but I think the car has reched the last weeks of it's life (under my ownership anyway..). I'm currently looking for a new car, which, I'm afraid is likely not a skoda. I want the new car to have air conditioning, and a bit more power and it seems there are no GOOD conditionend 1.6 felicias with A/C in finland, and a fabia or an octavia go beyond my price limit..

The felly is for sale as it is for now, if no-one is interested, then I'll fix and repaint the front end and sell it. (link to my for sale ad here in Finland: Skoda Felicia 1.3 Comfort Viistoperä 2000 - Vaihtoauto - Nettiauto )

In the mean time, I bought a new car for myself, an american this time, take a look:

Love the Tiffany number plates!