On Saturday I went and did it again! For the second time in my life I installed one of those heavy a$$, carbed (gas $ucking), tranny breakin, loud, sbc V-8's. And I can't wait to get her started up.So if I add all this up I'm the proud owner of 16 cylinders, 32 valves, duel carbs,and 8 forward gears. Life is good. Have a Great Day Gary It's my lucky day I own page 8
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i cleaned out the leaves and debris packed around the heater cores and fan of 3 of my fiero's. 3 more to go.it looked like the '86 gt caught fire at one time as there was alot of blackend leaves but failed to burn the fiero up.musta happened to a previous owner.
I dug out an extra pair of lower front control arms and had new ball joints pressed into them. My weekend project is replacing the control arms, front springs and front shocks.
------------------ Dealing with failure is easy: work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: you've solved the wrong problem, work hard to improve.
Hypertech Thermomaster Rodney Dickman cold air intake Rodney Dickman deck strut Konis front and rear West Coast Fieros 1.5" lowering, 400 lbs springs front West Coast Fieros 400 lbs coilovers, rear Prothane polyurethane bushings front and rear
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Installed intercooler Put blower back on Made new tube from T/B to PVC port (Gen V needs external tube) Put belts back on Bled intercooler Started car Smiled a lot
Completely tore down the passenger side door. Doing a door refurb project. Finished the DS last week, now time for the PS. Pulled the inner & outer door panel/skin. Removed the lock motor for refurb. Pulled the power window motor & regulator to clean up & regrease everything. Pulled the petrified old dew wipe to make a new one using my pieces from Joe, per this thread. https://www.fiero.nl/forum/Forum1/HTML/067338.html
cleaned up the inside of the door. that's about it for today ... more tomorrow.
Repaired the wiring to my seat speakers. The PO previously butchered the wiring to add a couple of rear speakers in the sides. Now the seat speakers work again! Also fixed the cig lighter so now I can charge up my cell pone. Slowly... slowly...
Yesterday I took the car for a short ride to fill the gas tank up. I added fuel stabilizer and injector cleaner before I filled it up and put it away for the Winter.
changed an alternator on the side of the road in my 86gt, probaly the fastest i've done one in a fiero.
i was about a mile and a half from my house when it locked up. i left it in front of a church and started to walk home when someone came out of the church and gave me a ride home (devine intervention?). got the convertible (the only other thing i've got running right now), went back, took the alt. off and got another at auto zone. stuck it on and drove the convertible back home, then walked back and drove the gt on in to work.
gotta get some maintenance done or break down (and break a piggy bank) and get another truck. been procrastinating and a gt and convertible are not the things to have going with winter coming.
I finally got some time to today to work on the motor mounts for the re-powered racecar. Only got to work on them for a couple of hours, but at least it was something.
Cut notches in the bottom of the decklid to clearance the blower after the intercooler install. I have to add, that cutting parts off of a Fiero is not for the faint of heart.
Then I filled the notches with two part foam to get it prepped for fiberglassing. That will be the weekend project.
Dropped the cradle, removed the engine, and took the trans-axel off to look at the clutch arm inside the bellhousing. Bad clutch arm . It was seperated from the throwout bearing
I thought about trying to free up a weekend so that I can get down to Sluppy123's place and get the Mr. Mike's leather seat skins I'm buying from him....
Other than that....nada.....
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Yeah........................I'll eventually start a new thread on the rebirth of the Purple Turd when it holds together.
The long and the short of it, we found the problem with blowing engines. Now I have one HECK OF A FAST motor in it. Feels good, sounds good, runs AWESOME. It's just too bad it "ate" my built transmission On a better note, diagnosis has narrowed it down to a blown torque converter.
I drove to work today and on the way in I got gas. It took 10.6 gallons to fill. I must have been driving on fumes. (Thank you Lord for all small favors.) I'm getting too old to push my car to the nearest gas station.
Finally got around to installing the 2.8 idler pully from Rodney this morning. Goodbye belt squeal!
------------------ Dealing with failure is easy: work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: you've solved the wrong problem, work hard to improve.
162 miles on the new engine now and trying to work out all of the little buggs before I make it my daily driver. My temp gauge is going up and down like a yoyo. Non stop.
I finnished installing a six spring clutch in my 85 GT as a replacement for my shot old one, replaced the brake pads and changed the oil and oil filter.
Hooked up a Battery Maintainer on the GT. Found this little gem at West Marine. Can be hooked up three ways, straight to the battery , or with clips, or to the lighter. It will trickle charge when needed, shut down when charged
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