Dealt with more coolant problems. Coolant was spilling over the resivoir cap and leaking all over at the cruise night I went to in Winthrop Harbor. Fiero Thomas was able to help over the phone, and a certified mechanic happened to have a car at the show tonight, the car and I got home OK.
Might be a bad thermostat, and/or might be the water pump (again).
reinstalled the cradle/drivetrain in an 88 Duke auto - took 3 1/2 hours to get the cradle bolts to line up (just missed it by that much) evidently one of the front bolt tubes is tweaked a bit and that's the one I put in first, throwing everything else of a bit.
Well after much procrastination, I finally got the motor out of my 86. I can't believe how easy it was once I grew a spine and dove in. Thanks to all that have helped so far and thanks in advance to those that will help in the coming days.
Got her back from the shop today after they repaired what caused the incident on Monday. Bad radiator cap and bad thermostat make for a messy arrival at a car show about 40mins away. They also did an oil change.
put in a new chip by darth, v2.2. car is running much better, put 76 miles on it. and sucked down 1/2 a tank still got lots more tuning to do.
EDIT: i drove it some more, and fouled all my plugs. 7 miles from home. that sucked. they fouled out in the middle of driving. that sucked.
------------------ 1987 Fiero GT built by my brother, merlot566jka, 3500 LX9 from 06 Malibu, WOT-TECH.com 1280 grind stage 3 cam, LS6 valve springs, 1227730 ECM conversion, Darrel Morse solid aluminum cradle mounts, Truleo headers modified to fit the 3500, 36# inectors, 70mm 4.3 throttle body adapted to 3500 intake, ported heads, upper and lower intakes, lightly polished, tcemotorsports.com crank trigger wheel, CenterForce dual friction clutch, Flowtech Afterburner muffler, 2.5" piping, cat deleted, EGR deleted, SinisterPerformance tuning, C6 Corvette exhaust tips. projected to be 35 MPG with a guesstimate of 250 hp to the wheels
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I just replaced the front shocks on my '84. I ran out of daylight today so I have to get up early tomorrow and finish what I started. Work for tomorrow: rear struts, brake pads and new brake fluid.
Drove to Ft Lauderdale at a state park and parked the car along the inter-coastal waterway and watched the boats and roller blading girls skate by as I waxed the car,
Replaced the tacho/oil pressure gauge in instrument panel of the 85 v6. At least I know it has good oil pressure now (50+psi), old gauge used to show maybe 10 psi on a good day!
Next job is replace drivers side door hinge bushings and all the locks. Oh joy....
P.S. Nice work on that cradle, what's going on there?
Thanks! It might seem a little over kill. But it is a 3800SC. I want a full size muffler to tone down the engine a bit. I am building my exhaust like Fieroguru built his. Now, I have to redesign the bumpsteer issue. https://www.fiero.nl/forum/Forum2/HTML/087174.html
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Finished up the sub enclosure. Now I need to figure out what to do around the amp, LOL. I'm thinking maybe a grill of sorts covered with speaker grill cloth. Something to kinda hide it but still allow airflow.
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The other day I pulled the engine and tranny in an 88 Coupe. Today I replaced the clutch, put in a new tranny (the old one had beautiful metal flakes in the 90 weight ), Welded-up a crack in the exhaust, replaced the water pump, pressure washed the whole thing and tossed it all back up into the car and had it back on four wheels before the sun went down.
You go Toddster. I pulled the TB of my 88, cleaned it all up, cleaned the IAC, inside the upper intake, the tube from the TB to the lower mainfold, etc. etc. etc. Made a big difference for Idle and acceleration. Also spent a lot of time looking at the 86 with the motor out. Gotta gather some parts begore I can install the new motor. Thinking about rebuilding the whole rearend. Got the poly bushings for the a arms and cradle. Al ready installed new struts. It needs rotors and pads (thinking of upgrading). Maybe next weekend!
Finally finished removing the aftermarket wiring that was entangled into my wiring harnesses. Now to get working on getting the engine running again. Realized my custom one-off sub box I bought doesn't quite fit right.
Mine is sitting in it's new home. I put up some racks to get all the boxes out of the way, so I could have access to it again. It was "boxed" in literally.
Finally drove it! It was great! I'm loving this, the A/C and cruise controll still work! I had to eyeball the rear camber since it's now too low to get on the auto shop's rack for a proper set up. After going up and down 395 afew times it seems safe enought to make the trip to Fort Detrick, my next duty station, and now the problems:
the steering wheel is not straight and the seems to be a bit of play in the steering overall the headlights come on but don't pop up. huh? they just worked! the tach seems to work from 0-1000 to 2700 and above. anyone seen this before?
not really a problem, but after getting some seat time, finally, a bit more power is needed. a 3.4 doesn't seem like a bad idea now and a 4.9 sounds even better, don't have to go whole hog with a 350 or LS, but that LS4 thread does sound pretty sweet, but I have a cradle modified to accept an Ecotec, so I'm going with that. I'll have plenty of time at my new duty station to get a motor, transmission and other parts, but the wiring is scaring me.
cerulean, do tell, was that a straight forward install? is there an AUX jack? I don't see one but I'm just making sure. http://home.townisp.com/~mc...w/fiero/IMG_2411.JPG looks better than the double din Pioneer I have now.
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Finally got an adjustable sleeve on to one of my new struts - after getting it stuck on once, I cleaned every last bit of paint off, and filed down the edges of the part number stampings, heated the sleeve in the oven, and whacked it on!.
Time to get started on the other one...
------------------ The Madscanner
'85 SE 2M6 automatic w WS6 suspension, factory sunroof, slightly modded interior, after-market cold air induction kit, rear spoiler, original Tech alloys, component speakers instead of the 4x10s.
Outstanding tasks - adding electric windows, locks, and mirrors (all the bits sitting around in a box, awaiting time...), new wheels and rubber, as well as rear adjustable coilovers, and poly bushings all 'round.
I fixed the A/C... again. The schraeder valve in the high-side service port failed, and vented all the refrigerant. Since my system is converted to r134a, the service ports have adapters screwed onto them, with plastic caps. The plastic cap on the high-side port may not be strong enough to hold in the refrigerant, but a steel bolt should be.
In case anyone is interested, the proper bolt size to plug the high-side service port (with the r134a fitting installed) is M8 x 1.0mm.
------------------ 1986 GT Fiero Owner & Enthusiast For Fiero updates, visit my site and don't forget to click on the ads! http://educatorstop15.we.bs/fieropage.htm
Still too soft - will have to spend some quality time on it this weekend!
------------------ '85 SE 2M6 automatic w WS6 suspension, factory sunroof, slightly modded interior, after-market cold air induction kit, rear spoiler, original Tech alloys, component speakers instead of the 4x10s.
Outstanding tasks - adding electric windows, locks, and mirrors (all the bits sitting around in a box, awaiting time...), new wheels and rubber, as well as rear adjustable coilovers, and poly bushings all 'round.
Well I finally got to do the first startup of my 3800SC swap, no exhaust on it yet and still a few things that need finishing it up, but my wiring seems to work and it runs!
still got lots more tuning to do. 
Sexy setup!
