Ok, I'll give you a brief (a la coles-notes) history lesson on this car. I bought it back in April 2000 (it was my first car) and I've had it ever since. It is a 1986 Pontiac Fiero SE, with the Iron Dukie - 198,000kms on the odometer, and it looks like it only has 10,000kms. Really great condition. So I've had it almost 9 years now, ...wow. It shows you how obsessed we get about these cars. Anyways:


2000-2002 -- Pictures after a couple of months of owning it. I was a complete ass, and "riced-it-up" with a stupid rear wing and dual-fart-cans on the back. It sounded ok, but it looked like I was ready to take off down the tarmack:




2003-2005 -- I came SO close to selling it, because I was starting college, and I needed some money. Plus the fact I had a two-seater made it impractical. But I decided to keep it (thank god) and get another car. I even went a step further and wanted to upgrade the Fiero. So I had a local shop (who took entirely too long to complete it, 1.5 years :S) install a 3.4L push rod back in 2003. I went even further, and had the entire back end restored, painted, welded, rails-strengthen, etc. etc. etc. It turned out well (these are just a small percentage of the pics I took, more are on my blog):



2005-Present -- Once everything was done, the car came home. I did some stuff to it, like removing that monstrosity of a wing, and the fart-cans were disposed of with the 3.4L upgrade. Then a lot of things happened in my life - graduated college, got my career started, met a girl, got married, got a house, sold our house, moved out to temporary location, bought our new house, moved from the temporary location into it, etc. etc. etc. So the car got neglected and pushed aside. This is how she looks right now:



Now that we've moved into our "we-live-here-until-we-retire-and-the-kids-are-out-of-the-house" house, I want to be 100% focused working on this Fiero - for once and for all I have a bigger garage too, so I've got no excuse not to work on it.

In the next post I'll show you what I have planned for it.
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Last April (2007) I bought a parts car, stripped it, and towed it away. I got a lot of parts from it:


I purchased the PISA rap-around dash, black carpet(not shown) from the Fiero Store, Fiber-glass headliner, and the Euro Pisa door skins for the interior:




Last August (2007) I purchased a whole bunch of goodies from Rodney Dickman:



Also in August (2007), Mr. Mike Leatherette seat covers arrived. Amazing quality I might add:



In November 2008 I got some parts to do the fastback conversion I've always wanted to do:



And then a couple of weeks ago I got some more exterior goodies for the Fiero, from JimmyS and a local guy:




And these, courtesy of Kenneth Hines, should be here shortly:


So I have all this stuff now, and I need to get in gear and install it

Stay tuned, I'll be posting more as things start to arrive, and as I get more time to work on them. I'm sure people will want to know about the installation of the dash. I did some searching on the forum, and I couldn't find anything that goes into details and/or pictures on this install. The dash, from what I have been told, is a total P.I.T.A. to do because of all the custom fabrication.
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Oh, I also picked up these from Princess Auto for $14.99.

Since I’m installing the 4″ LED tail light conversion on the Fiero, I will be losing the reverse lights.

They also come with a remote control switch, but I won’t be using it because the lights are wired in directly to the reverse switch. I imagine I will find another use for the remote switch though.

I test fitted them, and they should work great in the rear bumper.


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Wow, this one's going to be good... To me, there's no worse feeling than having a pile of new parts you've collected, and no time to install them!
Can't wait to see the progression... Looks like you lowered it a bit too...? Any major mods in the schedule, like chop or scissor doors?
Good luck with the build!

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Journal of a concept: http://southeastfieros.com >>> Build Thread >>> Parts thread (for project funding)

quote Originally posted by fieroboom: Wow, this one's going to be good... To me, there's no worse feeling than having a pile of new parts you've collected, and no time to install them! Can't wait to see the progression... Looks like you lowered it a bit too...? Any major mods in the schedule, like chop or scissor doors? Good luck with the build!

Yep, the previous owner had it lowered. I think they are eibach springs, and I'm pretty sure they are 1" drop in the front, and 1.5" in the rear. Those rims are only 16", but they fit the wheel wells very nicely.
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That was "back-in-the-day" when I bought lots of cheap crap to throw on the Fiero. Now with experience, QUALITY is better than QUANTITY.

I've come to the conclusion that I should spend my money on the right mods, rather that spend my money on many useless mods.

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I spent over an hour cleaning up the fastback clip on the outside, and inside. It was dirty, but it was just dust. It is clean now. I pulled off all the metal parts. These will be sandblasted and repainted in a few days.

If I get some time this weekend, I may do the fastback conversion. Our 99 Saturn is hogging up half the garage because the transmission valve body needs replacing. The part for it came in this afternoon, so once I get it all fixed up this weekend, it goes out, then the fiero goes in the middle of the garage for more room to begin the transformation



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Nothing major to report, other than the fact that I moved the Saturn out, and placed the Fiero at the centre of the garage.

I now have room to work around the car. This will make the fastback conversion easier.


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