Right now it is pretty much bone stock other than turning the stock gauges from the stock orange to blue, painted interior trim pieces, JVC CD player and audiopipe 4x10s in the front.
My plans for the car are as follows: 1. Custom side scoops (similar to those of NOS3800's which can be seen here https://www.fiero.nl/forum/Forum1/HTML/037968.html 2. American Racing Series 106 wheels mounted on 215/45/17 tires...although my wheel choices are constantly changing 3. Aero bumpers and ground effects 4. Original orange gauges converted to blue (completed) 5. Sunroof conversion using pieces from my parts car 6. Spoilerless decklid...may add mustang scoop somewhere down the road w/ vented decklid cover grills 7. 6cyl exhaust from the muffler back on my current 2.5L (no plans to swap engines until everything else is done and this one dies out) 8. Paint job similar to helmet1978's (red from mouldings down, white above mouldings)
I'll get you started with some pictures of my car stock and post progress pictures as I go along.
Hope you enjoy. Please excuse the road salt on the car. You can't keep a car clean for more than 5 minutes here in Nova Scotia this time of the year.
BTW...Skitime...if you happen to stumble across this post this is the car Anthony was putting the gas tank in the last time you were up this way.
------------------ Caleb Sarty Black '84 SE 4 speed with blue gauge conversion and small interior mods...Stock otherwise, but not for long.
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Posts: 680 From: Oregon, United States Registered: Sep 2003
is that a half of crowbar you have for your shift rod???
O yea, and your headlights are up.
Nice car. Have any plans for it yet?
Eric
It's actually a shift knob from Canadian Tire...Look really close and you'll see the sun reflecting off the black part of the handle. As for plans, most of them are stated above and I hope to start my side scoop project this weekend. NOS3800 has given me quite a bit of helpful information on how he did his and I plan on using a somewhat similar technique.
P.S. As for the headlights being up I thought it produced a nice picture with the wet weather...normally I hate having them up unless absolutely necessary.
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Posts: 629 From: Painted Post. NY US Registered: Jul 2002
For some reason I think that the 84-86 Non aero Fiero's looked the most aerodynamic. Here is my stock 84, with the stock 13" rims too:
More pics are on my web site.
I want to take my Fiero out of the garage soon so I can clean the floor before I replace my rings and rod bearings in my motor, so hopefully that happens and I can get a pic with my new digital camera.
Welcome to Chapter one of my fiero project...the side scoops. I did some more precise measuring of the panels and cross referenced those with my pvc materials. I should have a few inches to play around when it comes to fiberglassing the scoops to the body panels. I'm going to use 4inch pvc piping for the scoops themselves (2 per panel) and 90 degree pvc turn piping to achieve the round scoop backs. It may sound a little confusing now but it will all become clear as it progresses. From the straight pvc piping I cut two sections 6 inches long and then cut each of them down the length on opposite sides to end up with four half moon shaped pieces that will make up the body of the scoops.
I then took the four pieces of pvc turn piping and cut them to make the curved back parts of the scoop and matched them up with the straight pieces to make sure they were the same width and height. The width was fine but the height didn't match up so i fine tuned the back pieces a little more until they matched up perfectly.
Sorry for the lack of progress pictures at this time. My brother stole the camera again, but I'll try to have them up as soon as possible.
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Posts: 430 From: Bridgewater, Nova Scotia Registered: May 2003
Upon removing the panels from my parts car I noticed a few things which needed to be fixed. The first was a chip out of thje back of one of the panels. That'l be no problem to fiberglass. The second problem I came across was the indentation of the driver's side panel leading to the intake grill. My scoop would not be large enough to fit over them so what I did was cut out that area of the panel and replace it with a piece of the door skin to make it flush with the rest of the panel. I'm in the process now of fiberglassing it so it looks stock.
I bonded to straight pipe pieces of the scoop to the turn pipe sections and used a little spot glazing putty to get a seemless finish. I then sprayed on a coat of primer so that I could better see any imperfections on the scoops themselves which would have to be fiberglassed.
That's as far as I am now and will try to get the pictures posted later tonight when I get home from work. Stay tuned...there's more to come.
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Started working on the passenger side panel crack today to see if I could restore it to it's original form. I glued the broken off piece back on the panel and still had an area missing shown in the pictures below.
another view
Then I backed the missing area with a piece of plastic so I could start filling it up with fiberglass. Keep in mind that it is still in the starting stage and needs some more filling and alot of shaping.
:EDIT: For the right picture links
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Well after 6 hours out in the garage this morning followed by six hours at work then another hour out in the garage I've finally got some time to sit down and give today's update. Things went better than planned today. The driver's side panel that I removed the concaved design leading to the factory intake grill from to make it flush with the rest of the panel is completed and ready to add the scoops to...which are also completed.
The passenger side panel from my parts car which was in pretty bad shape is about 90% complete and almost ready for the scoops to be mounted on.
Unfortunately I won't be able to bound the side scoops to the panels until this weekend because I'm completely out of money and pay day isn't until Friday.
Oh yeah...and while I'm at it I'll try out the sig I just finished making. Stay tuned for more updates and pictures.
hope you enjoy it
