At least cooler air is getting in there.

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The intake on dougies car is the Fiero Store short ram cold air intake, it is not designed to go any further than it does.

sorry to hear you bought your side scoop from the fiero store.... trust me the chrome will fade and chip withen 1 month..... ive gone through 3 scoops in the last year..the fiero store sent me one free one because i sent them back 2 that i bought all cut up and hacked because i was pissed...the one they sent me free had a gash in the lettering..its been on there for 3 months now and its completly fadded and no chrome left at all...im very anoyed by the fiero stores quility

Now, Many members asked 1 week ago when I put up a WTB: Holley Scoop. The Holley Scoops are much more durable, stronger, and look better. ( No they do not look the same.) Because after 6 months the Fiero Store Replica one is totaled scratched, chipped, that is what I am gathering from members here. The Holley Scoop is much more durable.

heres some pics of all of my side scoops (same car different scoops) i took pics to back up my bitching the the F-S...


that pic was taken for other purposes..but you can see..it was 3 months old i think.. mabey 2


this one is 1 month old

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this one was on there for 6 months.... i just took this pic.. i have this one extra but im gona do something with it...


i will prolly tomorrow make my own F-S diss thred..im gona take pics of everything ive ever bought from there. and post it and tell a history..everything ive EVER bought is trashed....

Good thing I build prototypes of consumer products for a living. If need be I can rechrome the letters with this awesome chrome system I have. I could also make a silicone mold of it and cast a completley new scoop from a more durable and uv resistant urethane plastic. So don't fret if the quality sucks I can fix it or make it better. The chrome on there now is just a vaccu metalization. Vaccu-metalizing is not very durable to begin with. I think I might pull mine off tomorrow and put a few thick coats of PPG deltron over the chrome. That will protect it better than the top coat they put on it initially. Thanks for the heads up.

I dunno what your problem is, but I've had my scoop on for almost a year and the only place where chrome is gone is on the part where is got backed in to with a Bonnie(ville).

Looks like those could well do with a good couple of coats of urathane clear to protect the chrome.

Its plastic, chrome only lasts on metal, just paint the letters silver.

I don't think you can get the Holley scoops anymore, right?

quote Originally posted by FTF Engineering: Wait a minute... wait, wait, wait..... Dougie, Are you tellin' me that the previous owner put that scoop on the outside, but on the inside, the intake isn't even connected to it? HAHAHAHA!!! Now THAT'S nice.

Yeah thats right...not to diss the Fiero store scoop (or the previous owner...if you're reading this, sorry.), i mean, if you have a stock intake, it cant hurt anything. a little more air will get into the intake...and it will look cool too. But the way mine is set up is dumb.
The filter sits right on the engine compartment insulation which is full of crap and dirt and when it lets go of the dirt and crap it goesinto the filter. I noticed this because my filter was gummed up. I wish I had a pic of my TB. It was completley gummed up with a thick layer of brown sludge from taking in moisture,dirt and old insulation.
I can only imagine what im going to find when i take the plenum and all that off to clean it while its locked up in the stable this winter.

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In my case, whatever cool air is getting in is canceled out by the boiling hot air trapped in the engine compartment. Im sure this short tube setup doesnt do anything good.

oh and p.s - The scoop I have has been on the car 2 years and still looks new. Maybe the ones missing the silver paint were part of a bad batch?
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Pulled my scoop today and put two thick coats of PPG Concept clear. That stuff flows out soooo glassy smooth I love it. Put it back on before I drove home from work. Looks great and my vaccu-metalized chrome won't be going anywhere.

Since we can't really agree on the performance, I'll bring it back to looks

I think it looks great from every angle



There are better looking scoops, but not for $21 and 2min installation...
I installed an LED inside it to give it a red glow for evening shows.

https://www.fiero.nl/forum/Forum1/HTML/064244.html.



As for the product quality - The first one I installed, the chrome cracked after a few months. The good people at the FS sent me a new one free of charge and never asked for the old scoop (so I have one for the winter and one for summer )
So I give them A+ in C.S

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The L.E.D looks cool!

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Very nice...I might try that.....I wonder what color LED to use on a flip paint Fiero? It's never one color. Your rims rock by the way.

quote Originally posted by Curlrup: Very nice...I might try that.....I wonder what color LED to use on a flip paint Fiero? It's never one color. Your rims rock by the way.

Thanks

If you wanna be street legal, go with an amber LED. (Check your state legislation please)

quote Originally posted by 88 Silver Formula: sorry to hear you bought your side scoop from the fiero store.... trust me the chrome will fade and chip withen 1 month..... ive gone through 3 scoops in the last year

When I got mine, I really didn't like the "flashy" appearance of the fake chrome. I found a rattle can of semi-gloss black paint, and sprayed the whole scoop. You can still make out the "FIERO" on the scoop, but, IMO being subtle comes across as being intended more for go than for show. Haven't noticed any performance gain, but coupled with Rodney's cold air intake system, it sure produces an "interesting" sound behind your left ear when you get on it .

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86 SE 2.8 4-Speed

Best one I saw, the guy took a belt sander to it and removed the outer ribs and the lettering then sanded with finer sandpaper and painted it body color. it looks way better.

Sorry to raise this topic from the dead, I just bought a GT that has that scoop on it, and I've gotta be honest, I really don't like it. I thought it was stock, I guess I was wrong, is the stock one just a grille that goes voer the hole, with no scoop?

The stock one is a grill.

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So, I've read a bunch of the thread, but not all of it (my appologies). Someone said that the intake is well designed. Does that include the '84 Duke? (For that matter are they the same?) My intake is taken out currently because the car's on jacks for restoration. The piece looks like like it creates super-restriction. It's a big loopy box which I heard someone say is merely for reducing noice (vacuum noise). I was thinking of just running a straight stainless or aluminum pipe from the intake to the air cleaner for better flow. What about the intake is well done? Does the loopy box actually do something good?

-Michael

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Check out my restoration! Comment if you can.

as far as cold air intakes go, West coast fiero makes the only one I would say is worth the money or effective as far as I have seen. It is custom made to go into the side tubing right behind the side vent preventing rain and hot air to get into the filter.

There's a article somewhere out there in Fieroland (one of the club sites, I think), where they dyno'd a stock V6 with the stock air intake, and again with the air intake disconnected (air straight into the throttle body), and it made no difference. The article concluded that the stock air intake is well designed.