1986 Fiero SE 3.4L pushrod build up (Page 2/24)
daveg DEC 22, 11:01 AM
It's nice to see Patrick's car went to a good home. I swapped him that clean decklid that I bought at a local yard for his, so that I could carry my slicks to/from competitions and I wouldn't need to paint the decklid to match my Gold SE.

Daveg
justinchristie DEC 22, 05:45 PM

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It's nice to see Patrick's car went to a good home.

Daveg



Yep. I forgot who that guy's name was when I bought it off of him almost 9 years ago.
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justinchristie DEC 28, 06:28 PM
I finally got to work on the interior. I spent about 5 hours tearing down the interior. There were A LOT of redundant wires in there from various electronic installations.

Hopefully tomorrow I can start the fastback conversion.







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justinchristie DEC 29, 02:38 PM
I removed the notchback clip, and the rear bumper today. I started around 12 p.m. and it only took about 2 hours to do.

Now with everything off, I can start cleaning. You can see a lot of dust in the pictures. It's not bad, but I'm going to wipe it down so it is nice and clean. I plan on taking off the rear bumper (metal bumper) and grinding/sanding it down, followed by a fresh coat of paint.

There are also a few other small areas that I would like to touch up before I put the fastback clip on.




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justinchristie DEC 29, 10:58 PM
I took a little extra time today to sandblast the metal fastback parts from the rear clip.

Once that was done, I painted them with 4 thin coats of primer. Tomorrow I will give them two coats of high gloss black paint and let them dry for 24 hours. So the conversion will have to wait until then because I’m not going to rush putting them back on.

But I should be able to do some more work on the interior tomorrow.




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joshh44 DEC 30, 05:29 AM
its going to be like a new car when your finished!
justinchristie DEC 31, 02:16 PM
I just put the last coat on the rear clip parts this morning, and they look great. I’m going to let them dry for another 24 hours before I put them back on the rear clip.

Hopefully I can get to some cleaning this afternoon.


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justinchristie JAN 01, 06:48 PM
These just came in. They are TERRIFIC quality - far beyond what I expected. The gel coat is the best I have ever seen on aftermarket fiberglass. I did not realize how BIG the 4″ LED lights were - these things are MASSIVE! I can’t wait to install these after I put the rear fastback clip on.


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justinchristie JAN 06, 03:04 PM
On the lower driver’s side door there was a small rusted out hole. Very weird place to get this, because the rest of the door is in terrific shape. The only thing I can think of that would cause this is accidentally grazing the door with your hand when you apply the parking brake - the constant motion of engaging the lever might have resulted in a small scratch, which would eventually grow into rust. The car is in terrific condition overall, but this is just one of those "blips" in the radar.

I used a cut-off disc to cut out the rust spot, and then I used a grinder to expose the bare metal below. I just need to tack weld in a new piece of metal, put on two coats of rust converter/primer, and paint everything so it is protected. I'm going to take off the outer door skin to do it right too, so I can get two angles at repainting the problem spot.

So much for just a quick interior swap out, and then starting to fabricate the new pisa interior. One thing leads to another.

Oh well, I like to do things right, so there is no sense in just covering this up with the interior door panel and forgetting about it. Patience is what I have learned over the years - especially with Fieros




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justinchristie JAN 10, 12:52 PM
I took the outer door panel off to do a proper restoration of that rust hole I discovered.

I should have lots of space to grind out any rust, and paint.



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