Car got egged..... From the inside...Yea. Someone broke into it and egged the dash, behind the seat and center consol. Didnt even steal anything...

Other than that.... Just waiting on some wireing to get done. I will prolly work on the rockers later today. They dont seem to fit to well. I think there is going to be alot of work to be done to make them fit just right.

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these rockers are a pain to prep.... And i think im going to glass something to bring the front of it closer to the fender, or maybe glass it into the fender, or at least the botom part, ill post pics of what i mean in a tad.

I started off by flushing my break lines. I disconnected them all and cut the tops out of old oil bottles and shoved them where they wouldnt fall. You would not belive the crap that came out. It looked like someone ate a grapefruit and pooped the pulp right into my master cylinder. I made a baster out of a hose, some duct tape and a mountain dew bottle to suck out the junk in the master cylinder. Then i wiped out the mud. I ran a whole thing of fresh fluid before it started to clear up. I got 3 new calipers. I could barley stop my car so i took them all off to look at them. I remember i replaced one already but the others had no bleeders, the pistons were so rusted through that they were spraying break fluid onto the backs of the break pads. ANYWAY's... New calipers, primed and painted with high temp paint. Never sieze on bleeder threads w/ bleeder covers over the nipples "tehe". Cleaned off the rotors and painted the parts of it that rust quick. I took the wheel well liner out and holy crap.... I have some work to do. Ill cut the bad spots out, weld new metal in and put a coat of resin over it so it will never rust again, then paint it with flat black just for looks.

I ordered a poly kit from summit. I got some shock absorbers coming in at o-rielys.
I bought a sand blasting box today. BYE FAR the best thing i have bought in a long time. It was about 100 bucks at harbor freight. It gets the parts so clean i barely have to do anything to paint it. BUT HEY! i got one side pretty much done. Here is what ive been up to today.
You could eat off those rotors.










So clean i have no problem laying them on my bed.


I also did my upper control arm for $hits and giggles.

Along with every single little nut, bolt, and washer...Not because im OCD.....Because i can lol. OH i painted the tops of all the bolts too

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Heres some information on my poly setup issues

https://www.fiero.nl/forum/Forum2/HTML/084705.html

Still Cleaning up.... It doesn't end lol

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Good thing i have a place to park now that i cleaned my garage out, i hate having to park my car in the snow let alone drive in it, i put to much work into getting the rust it had off and i dont want to put it back on!. Alot has been going on i just havent posted.
Alot of the electrical problems are gone now. I moved the battery from the front, to the middle of my center console against the firewall and now my car starts everytime. The only real problem i have is after i shut it off it is hard to start again. I have a feeling its related to the coolant temp sensor. BECAUSE..."im extremely embarrassed about this"
I was a dumb as$ and forogot i didnt add coolant to the system and of course everything froze. Ive been fighting to get things unfrozen. I have a wood burner in my garage but it doesnt seem enough. Ive got coolant running through half the system now, the pasanger side pipes are froze ive got a karosene heater ill direct onto it, the engine heat should take car of the drivers side if it needs it, once everything melts ill try burping and adding coolant. I still cant belive i did this... Im happy i stil have all the freeze plugs in.

BUT until i get that worked out ive been trying to put together a good exhaust. I want to be able to use it on the 3800 n/a i have now by useing a reducer "backwards" so the system can be compatable with my supercharged s3 3800 when thats ready to go in. Its all 3" pipe & muffler. Right now its still just a pipe lol. No muffler. Nothing.

I bought an 84 se, to add to my collection.

Im going to switch the 82 hood with my modified 86 hood. I want something more classy on the 86. like the gtr fiero's hood "sorry i forgot your name but you do awesome work", I just bought some sort of Euro scoop for the decklid on the 86. With the side scoops rockers from archie i think it should come together nice

If someone wants to buy my setup it is for sale. Everything on the cradle for 1k.

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I wonder if anyone looks at this thing...

How wide can i gap my plugs. I have the same engine in my bonny as my fiero and i want the bonny to get better gas milage. So whats the largest gap? anyone?

HA, nobody likes NA s1's i guess

Chris don't fill bad. Hey when I get my 3800 in you should come down for a ride..

Hows that all going btw? you finaly find an engine etc..?

yeah....we got one...the guys has to pull it and check it first.....and then we are all go.

This car is so much fun lol. Everything is up and running

Chris,

Nice job on the swap! I also did a N/A 3800 swap into my 87 GT. Mine is out of a 96 regal and i ran the obd2 ecm car runs great and pulls like a freight trane.

about you spark plug question i would recommend runnning double platinum plugs in that car the dis ignition is real hot and platinum of iridium works the best long term in them, and they are pregapped to the right spec i always run the AC delcos at my shop in all the GM stuff i work on and have had the best sucess with them, what ever you run DO NOT RUN bosh plugs they are crap.

Ant

Way Ahead of ya! Thank you for the advice

quote Originally posted by Chris Hodson: If someone wants to buy my setup it is for sale. Everything on the cradle for 1k.

this setup?

This setup is for sale, im ready to get the S3 in.
$900 for motor tranny, wire harness & computer, axles, exhaust and fuel lines, coolant tubes.