THE BEAST

Matt’s Beast won back to back FOTM titles for Best FMIC and Best of powerhouse at Ohiostiva

From pondering what to do with a recent acquisition to BPT in 6 weeks

Matt’s daughter was learning to drive and daddy promised her a car so Matt was without a daily driver and needed a replacement. Matt’s “Bluetiful” BP is reserved for sunny summer days, with winds under 10 MPH, relative humidity below 65% and the temperature between 60°F and 80°F, so not a good candidate for a daily driver. In Matt’s garage, only a Festiva can replace a Festiva, so a Festiva was purchased. Matt pondered… a BP? Been there done that; An FE3 2.0 and probe tranny swap? A few trips to the junk yard with a tape measure convinced him otherwise. Then Matt started looking into the BPTs and got hooked. After all, why should BPTs be reserved to 4-door automatic green Aspires… 4-door! automatic!! Aspire!!! green? More on Aspires later… Matt figured a BPT daily driver would be awesome and spent about 6 weeks on the project getting it going and has since been continuously tweaking it.

The beast’s power plant…	Mazda valve covers don’t stay on for very long in Matt’s cars
The intercooler of intercoolers (for Festivas anyways)	Honda seats?? Well at least it’s not a Honda valve cover

As always, Matt is not the type to keep his swap secrets to himself, you can check out is car domain page The Beast, it’s full of detailed pics and info.

Beauty and The Beast and a peak of the Mustang coupe

Future beast plans

This winter Matt would like to do a Megasquirt with a distributor-less ignition and bump up the boost with a 225HP goal (that’s 3.5 times more power than a stock Festy). That's of course if Matt doesn’t find another project to work on…

You figure with 3.5 times the power of a stock Festy, Matt would get a speedo that goes 3.5 times the stock 85 MPH speedo.

But this one only goes to 110

Matt and Aspires

When questioned why he hated Aspires so much, Matt replied: ”I don't hate them, best brakes ever. I just prefer Festiva's”. Prefer? As any reputable journalist would do, HappyMom did some investigative research into the matter. Here are some of Matt’s views on Aspires:

Refering to DJ’s amazing Aspire CARtoon: “nice pic but all I can think of is that that aspire would make a good candidate for the brake swap on my festiva”

On the topic of ugliest car ever made: “Wow 4 pages and no one has even mentioned the aspire”

On the turnout out at Ohiostiva, referring to the presence of 2 Aspires: “It was 16 Festiva's and 2 brake swaps!” [Editor’s note: Matt posted this one from Brian’s computer]

On the suggestion to have an Aspire nominated for FOTM: “Aspire? This is fordfestiva.com”

On Whittey’s enthusiasm at owning an Aspire: “We really need to get you a Festiva”

Stock for now, but not for long

Turns out, a BPT is not a practical daily driver and Matt’s daughter could not convince daddy to exchange the BPT for her stock Festiva, so Matt needed to find another Festiva as a daily driver. On a side note, and again thanks to HappyMom’s investigative journalism, 4-door green automatic BPT Aspires make great “daddy, I need a car” cars, well at least until daddy blows the engine to smithereens.

Matt’s happy Festiva family, the red daily driver, with the Beauty and the Beast

The new stock daily driver may not stay stock for long, if Matt can find a B6. Then again he has pondered a B1 due to gas prices and driving over 60 miles a day. [Editor’s note: HappyMom is the only member of ff.com allowed to ponder a B1 swap]