As some of you may or may not know I purchased a 86 GT last year and then promptly parked it for the winter. This is the first somewhat already done car I have ever bought. Most of the hard stuff is already finished but not to my standards. So this summer I'm going to start playing and modifying!
First, here is a pic of the car
First project is the door panels. The PO must have done them pretty quickly and it showed. Since I already had one panel off this is where I'll start. Here is a pic of the old and the new.
After reading a ton of post on all the cool ideas other Fiero owners have done I came upon the Trans Am conversion. This was of real interest since I have a Trans Am dash, console and panels sitting in my shop. But in the end I decided to start on a little smaller scale and maybe come back to that one.
The top of the door panels remains stock except for the addtion of a painted wooden dowel in the crease painted im my orange accent color. I fabbed up a new panel made of 1/4 MDF for the lower door panel. I drilled holes and glued some smal bolts in the panel so that I could attach it to the factory panel. Shaped it to match the contour and then covered it in some diamond mesh vinyl and bolted it on. The old carpet was removed and new carpet was glued on the edges only.
The panel does look a little plain but I still may add a door pod for a speaker or map pockets. And for a finishing touch I have ordered some orange welting to add around the edges of the new wooden panel. This is from Mr. Mikes and will match my seats which should be in by summer. On to the pics...
Dude, that car is already badass!!! Looks like Darth Vaders car..... Let them Go Stay on the leader.... the force is strong with this one..... ( insert cool Darth Vader breathing sounds).... peace
one of two of the coolest fiero's i have ever seen. don't change it. it is awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
almost final design. Mr. Mikes orange welting around the lower panel and of course my painted dowel doesnt match... Cant seem to capture the nice contrast between the black, orange and grey with the camera but it looks pretty sharp for real.
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Beautiful car, I'm not sure how you could improve the exterior. As for the speaker pods, I think the would look better without the tweeter part jutting off. Or, it would be cool if it kind of mirrored the shape of the armrest/handle. might be a challenge tho. Seriously, I love your car, its my favorite....what are those wheels? ok, time for a cold shower....
I think it would look better with the correct door handle installed. j/k. but really my first thoughts were that the tweeter should be along the front edge of the door panel, then I realized that the dash is probably there so you had to move it. My next thought was that the speaker looked to be sending sound into the feet of the people in the car and not towards their ears. It looks like you made a pocket to hold items in which I though was really good use of space and tied the whole panel together nicely. I also really like the orange around the black. Two questions for you 1. What size of speaker is that made for and 2. When can I send you my panels to get done?
These are actually the pods from my 4th gen TA door panels I had in my shop that i was going to use to convert my 86 Trans Am...thats not going to happen so i shortened them up and molded in the speaker ring. It does have a cup holder and I left enough room for a map pocket of sorts. Placement is definatley not the best but its gotta be better than stock? Was going to ditch the rears and use and adapter for 5 1/4 in the dash and doors
They are currently painted the same as the door handle surround, maybe covered in vinyl or painted black might make it blend better.
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Wheels are MRR GT1 Front-8.5"-235/35/19 Rear-9.5"-265/30/19
Few more updates since I was able to move some cars out of storage and get the Fiero in the work bay.. First one is LED brake light. 2 pics one old and one new. Final position of the LED will be a bit higher
Some interior work. Redid headliner in black, redid rear firewall, painted all trim black, and redyed carpet black.
and lastly, always hated how on one side of the car there is a scoop and other side was bare....so I had a scoop lying around for years just waiting for an application. Basically just did it for looks but in the back of my mind I hope to mount the intercooler in behind...someday.....
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The MR2 scoop looks kinda funny on there, mostly just 'cause it's totally square and the Fiero totally isn't, everything's angled. BUT, doesn't stop it being awesome - gonna make the other side match?
Since the aftermarket is so small, lots of Fiero mods end up being repeated over and over. Yours is different.
Did I mention that I like it?
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so i was talking to another board member about how the wheels fits my car....seems its a bit tougher than i thought Found out it has ground control coil overs and 85 - 90 Grand Am rotors and calipers...another odd thing its that it has been converted to 114.3 bolt pattern. Can one of you experts explain to me what exactly he would have done to do that?
Originally posted by exoticse: Hmmmm,..not sure why the previous owner would have changed the bolt pattern,..those wheels are available in the same size in the fiero bolt pattern.
And what is the offset for both the front and rears? I need a set of these wheels for my Fiero. Got the size from up earlier in this post but need offsets. Pleeeeeeeaaaaase!
on the MRR site there is no listing for a 5x100 GT1 in 19 x 9.5 I will get that info in a few days. To run this setup you need coil overs, and a new hub. This stance also uses about 4mm spacers.
I wonder if he just drilled out the hub to the new bolt pattern?
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on the MRR site there is no listing for a 5x100 GT1 in 19 x 9.5 I will get that info in a few days. To run this setup you need coil overs, and a new hub. This stance also uses about 4mm spacers.
I wonder if he just drilled out the hub to the new bolt pattern?
5x114.3... I could see how that'd be sorta handy, but not on a Fiero - that's more common as Japanese RWD pattern, common with the RX7, Supra and Skyline...
so some news, rims are not 114.3...they are both 5 x 100 just like they are suppose to be. Why would a rim company stamp a rim with 114.3 on the back if its not?
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Finished up with the C4 seats today. They are not perfect but they are still better than my alternatives. Would like to redo in cloth but thats further down the line. Few pics:
While I was stealing all the parts of my Trans Am, the momo had to go!
And one last one of the finished calipers. Stipped the previous emblem and added the Fiero GT script.
