Trying to patch 25 year old plastic that has been baked in the heat is not the way to go.

No advice on a new one however.

Try these folks. They've been a well respected company around Atlanta for a long long time. They may be able to ship one to you for a reasonable price.

http://www.simsradiator.com/

Phonedawgz, I realize that, I had an appt Tuesday with a local shop and the patch would have been to get me about 10 miles there and back, then replace the radiator, but I also didn't see the tank cracking until last night, so I'm not going to attempt that. I will just cancel my appt.

Fierofool, I will give them a try, thanks.

Well I haven't updated in a while. With gas prices the way they have been, I was focusing on my motorcycle and upgrading it. So haven't done much to the fiero. I did try another radiator but it was just my luck, and it had a hole as well. But I did start practicing on painting the car. Never painted with a paint gun before, but I am getting the hang of it. Also, when I tried the second radiator and noticed it had a hole, the heater hose busted. What luck. But within the next couple weeks I will continue painting and buy a radiator. Here is a pic of my bumper with a few coats of paint. Still have to wet sand and add some more paint and sand and clear, but here is my start.

quote Originally posted by 86FIFI: Well, I just went and pulled the radiator, and the passenger side tank appears to be cracked. The crack isn't all the way through, but rather than try and patch the pin hole, I will just replace the radiator, because I think well it needs to be replaced. Ha. Anyone have a solid radiator they would like to get rid of? And the local parts store said $140 for a new one. Any recommendations on a new one? Maybe a better one or one that is good for its price?

Did you check with your local radiator shop for tank replacement? They offered them for the F-body cars, I purchased and installed one, it wasn't hard at all. The tank came with a new gasket and installed pretty easily and was trouble free afterwards. Not sure what they'd cost now if available. I believe it was about $20 for my application.

Well I bought an all aluminium radiator, and put it in, flushed the system and put new antifreeze and water in the car. Ran it through, and car seems to be cooling just fine. Now I'm back to needing to get the GT rims and tires balanced and put on, and the car aligned. Anyone interested in an 88 GT that was a daily driver and T boned someone? I have a friend who is trying to sell his for a good price. Interior is beautiful, paint is a little faded, but car is rust free with I wanna say around 150000 miles.

I dropped the tank in attempt to fix my fuel sender unit, with little luck. So while the car is not driveable I figured I would play with a few things. I pulled the stock air box out of the fender well to replace it with some intake hose, and dremel away at the tri piece the air box attaches to, and painted my air box. Waiting on shocks and struts to come in, and trying to fix my fuel sending unit. The car is coming along. Fingers crossed.

Pulled the air filter canister, cover, and mount to paint today, and also removed the box in the fender well and replaced with flexible intake tubing. Also dremeled a lot of the metal off of the tri piece on the mount to allow more air through with less restrictions. Still no luck with the fuel sending unit. Preparing the car for paint now. Removed all the stock pin striping around the side skirting on the rear bumper.

Completely filler primed the car and replaced the front bumper today. Still waiting on shocks and struts to come in.

Installed the front shocks today. The kyb were 100 times more stiff than the stock shocks.

Just to add a picture, here are my shocks and struts.

Haven't updated a picture of the car in a while, so I figured I would show where I am with the paint. It has one very thin coat of color, but its already looking. I think I am going to have to get the GT rims powder coated black to get the complete look. The grey rims may look funny.







I am an amateur, but have read quite a bit on painting. Just thought I would enjoy painting my car myself and be able to claim every bit of work done to the car.

I got the gas tank back in with no luck on the sending unit. I have a question, when I turn my car on engine not running and radio disconnected, a loud buzzing noise comes from the driver side rear speaker. But when I plug a radio up, the radio buzzes quietly. Any idea what is happening?

Today I replaced the sway bar end links and bushings, and cut one coil off my front springs. Do they make the polyurethane dust boots for the ball joints? My ball joints are fine, I just cut the basking that held the grease. Or am I going to have to get new ones and press them in?

Yes, they make just the boots. I just recently replaced my swaybar bushings and tie rod boots with poly, but I had had them on the shelf for about 5 years, so I don't remember where they came from. I they were ProThane products. They may be available from The Fiero Store.

Just checked fierostore and it appears the tie rod boots and ball joint boots are the same. In that case I can pick them up at my parts store. Thanks for the reply. I was beginning to think no one was watching the thread anymore. I am just trying to make sure when this car is on the road it won't have to come back off.

I'm keeping up with you. Would like to meet you when it's roadworthy.

Haha, funny you said that. I was just telling someone how you have kept up with me and I wanted to make a Fiero meeting and meet you, so I know who has been giving me tips.

I was able to get some tie rod dust boots made by energy suspension from the parts store for my ball joints, and they fit like a glove. Are you supposed to fill it with grease as well, or just let the polyurethane do the impact absorbtion?

Replaced parking brake cable from actual handle handle today. Now all have been replaced. And once tightened up I should have a working parking brake. Then the 7730 repinning begins.

quote Originally posted by 86FIFI: I was able to get some tie rod dust boots made by energy suspension from the parts store for my ball joints, and they fit like a glove. Are you supposed to fill it with grease as well, or just let the polyurethane do the impact absorbtion?

The cavity below the boot and above the tie rod end joint should be full of grease so to prevent water from ending up in it.

.......and the function of the boots aren't to absorb shock. After installation, clean your grease fitting and put enough grease into the joint to just barely begin to see a swelling of the boot.

Ok, thanks for the clarification.

I plan on starting the repinning process tomorrow for the 7730, I printed out darth Fieros pdf file of which wire goes where, anything else I should know before or while doing this? This is the most complex job I think I have attempted on this car, and I am very excited to see the outcome. I am doing an EGR delete, and want to integrate the knock sensor.

I have pretty much finished the wiring on my 7730 swap, I have to wire in knock sensor, and build EGR block off plates and vacuum line caps, and wait on the memcal to come back, and I will see what happens.

Tightened up all 7730 wiring and installed my rear coilovers today. Here is a pic.

They look nice. You're not going to drive it and get them all dirty are you?

I thought they made the car fly!? Haha. Let's hope this bad boy sticks to the road.

I noticed Rodney dickman sells something on his site that opens up the bottom of the air box, so I decided to open it up myself. I figured it would go along well with the "water separator" delete out the fender well.

I noticed at the right top of your air canister photo that there appears to be some rust-through near the lip. However small it might be, it can allow fine dust to be pulled into the engine. That's on the unfiltered side of your airflow. Might want to sand off the paint in that area and fill it with some J&B Quik Weld.

10-4 I will get right on that.

Replaced sway bar bushings with some from energy suspension. Still waiting on my Mem/Cal to come in the mail.

Today, I started the car for the first time with the 7730 installed and already noticed a difference. Couple problems to figure out, and then to see how the car rides with all the new suspension components.

Here is a pic of FIFI at her first fill up. Still addressing some issues, but still moving forward.

Is very nice!

I went and got the car aligned today. I need a new inner tie rod for the right front, but I might as well just replace both, and get another alignment. New pics coming with the new wheels and tires added.

Updated pic of the radio install.

Today I started the tear down of the motor to prepare for the trueleo intake. I pulled the upper and middle intakes off, pulled the valve covers for paint, removed fuel rail and pulled injectors from fuel rail and have them soaking in sea foam. I ohmed them all and they were all the same so they are good on that aspect. I plugged the hole on the fuel rail for the cold start injector, and the plug in the lower intake where the injector actually went. I also removed the coolant lines running to the throttle body. And I am in the process of replacing my plastic vacuum lines with rubber hoses. Here are a couple pics I took.