The following is my fiero, it is a 1984 fiero se with the 2.5L iron duke and a 4spd, i've had it for 5 years now. In the past month i have been working on a 2.8L from a 1985 fiero se given to me by my uncle a couple years back, the 1985 was a total rust bucket that had been sitting in a driving for at least 7 years, i managed to salvage many components from the car aswell as the engine. the engine sat in my garage for a couple of years after that with the rest of the car long gone. i have finally decided to swap it into my 1984 fiero the swap will be codenamed project Manhattan. I know that it is an 1984 and that it is harder to swap in an engine for electrical reasons. all advice and suggestions are welcomed aslong as they are constructive it is my first time doing a swap and rebuilding an engine, it is reallly a learning experience for me.
so in the past month i have been stripping the engine peice by piece to assess in which condition the engine was in. i started with the penulum and the rest of the intake components, they were heavily carbonized and had a crazy amount of sludge everywhere, hours of scrubbing later and a can of oven cleaner later they look decent but not perfect yet. next i attacked the valve covers they too where covered in a thick sludge but where much easier to clean then the intake components. after that my dad, my two neighbours and i attacked the block it self having detached the auto transmission earlier, within three hours the block was completely naked. DUN DUN DUN!!!!!! it wasnt all too pretty in there was about an inch of mud like substance in the oil pan, since my uncle had never changed the oil in it, and one of the cylinders was heavily scratched probably from a piece of sparkplug falling in at one point of the engine life. now that the block is completely naked i will this week send it into a machine shop to have the cylinders bored out to gett rid of the scratch and also ad some horsepower
mouhahahaha, it wont be all that powerful but itll be an upgrade from the 2.5 im not seeking for horse power i just want a fun to drive and reliable daily driver. the engine will probably be oversized .20 -.30 mm or even maybe .40mm.
this weekend i met another member of this forum named Danyel (he is very nice and it was a pleasure to meet him) the owner of the black widow (which is a very nice car btw ) i bought from him a cradle as well as the rear suspension for my swap i will be setting up the engine and transmission onto this cradle which i will then transplant into the car (easy peasy) i also got some very nice snowflake rims and an engraved penulum from him since he wants to encourage my project. Thank you danyel!
here are a couple of pictures :
this is my 1984 fiero
this is the naked block
the cradle and suspension:
the rims and the engraved penulm:
there will be more pictures coming shortly and like i said before all advice is appreciated
