Almost by luck, I stumbled across RCR's 13" brake kit for the 88 fronts, you can find it here.

Bought the camaro calipers (2002 z28), and 3 sets of rotors trying to find the perfect match, but I ended on the 2004 Mustang Cobra rotors, just had to redrill them to our 5x105 bolt pattern

Bolts are not tight in this pic, that's why the caliper is way out there

Finally mounted up properly


They are actually exactly the same color, just the lighting is different.

Barely clears the stick-on wheel weights!
12.85" rotor with calipers and a 17 wheel.

Nicely done, Kyle.

Bob

Got my new cradle cleaned up, new bushings pushed into extra suspension pieces, and bolted everything together today.
Got some cleaning/wire brushing/painting to do in the engine bay, but then I will be putting the cradle back in.


Out with the old rusty parts and bushings


New to me cradle and parts, cleaned and painted with new bushings

Got the valve covers for the 3800 painted the other day, although I'm not a painter by any stretch of the imagination, I think they came out pretty darn well for a bunch of rattle cans with 3-4 coats of clear gloss.







Black vertical sides with silver metallic top



Throwing in some blue, unfortunately its Ford Blue but still a good color




Finished.

Supercharger coming soon

Doing some work to the back of the car, needed to find the torque specs for the rear end of the car
(front torque specs to the bottom of page 1)


Torque the following as indicated.
1. Front cradle bolts 67lbs-ft (90N.m)
2. Rear cradle nut 76lbs-ft (103N.m)
3. Engine mount assembly 38lbs-ft (54N.m)
4. Rear mount assembly 36lbs-ft (48N.m)
5. Front mount assembly 36lbs-ft (48N.m)
6. Rear lateral control arm at knuckle 37lbs-ft (50N.m) + 90degrees
7. Rear lateral control arm at cradle 41lbs-ft (55N.m) + 105degrees
8. Fixed adjusting link at knuckle 37lbs-ft (50N.m) + 90degrees
9. Fixed adjusting link at cradle 41lbs-ft (55N.m) + 105degrees
10. Trailing arm to cradle 37lbs-ft (51N.m) + 80degrees
11. Trailing arm to knuckle 44lbs-ft (60N.m) + 90degrees
12. Stabilizer bar bracket mounting bolts 18lbs-ft (25N.m)
13. Exhaust pipe bolts at manifold 18lbs-ft (25N.m)

Got the 5 speed cleaned and painted, then reinstalled
(Ignore the beat-up slave cylinder, it has a new one now)

Also new axle seals to replace the leaking driver's side

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Cool stuff.
I see in some pics a cradle out and in others en engine or tranny coming in or out from the top?

quote Originally posted by 2.5: Cool stuff. I see in some pics a cradle out and in others en engine or tranny coming in or out from the top?

Yea, that is due to a number of reasons, mainly not knowing when I was going to get the putting in the new motor, and partially wanting to see if I could do somethings myself without a lift.

The 2.8 blew a rod on the way to my house the day I bought it, so it obviously had to come out.
So one day I decided to 'just do it."
I think my dad and I had it out in less than 4 hours, and that was the first time either of us had removed a motor.
Just a lot of disconnecting stuff, cutting stuff, and kept taking parts off as we got it as high as we could and it still didn't clear. We almost even aired down the tires for a little extra clearance.

Then, I was able to find an extra cradle about an hour away, so I picked that up, cleaned and painted it, and swapped over all the parts I needed to keep her rolling (strut, knuckle, all trailing arms with new bushings, etc.) and left the tranny out to clean and paint it.

Like I said, I didn't have a lift, so when it came to put the tranny back in I didn't feel like dropping the cradle again, only to put it back in half hour later with the weight of the transmission on it (it was difficult enough with just the suspension components).
My dad recommended that I wait for the motor swap to put the tranny back in, but I didn't feel like having it sit around and collecting dust, so I come-alonged it to the garage beam and pushed the car underneath and I was just lowering the tranny back in when he got home from work.
He didn't approve, but you could tell he was impressed.

I have my own house now, but most everything is done.
I'll try and have an update on the motor this weekend.

I dropped the car off at Jason's on April 15.
We're still shooting to be at Carlisle this year, June 23-25, but we shall see.
Found some issues with the wiring harness I bought years ago that he has had to tackle, I'll update on that soon.

Unfortunately not a lot of updates for the Formula at this time,
but I do have a Fiero update coming soon as soon as I get some time

Its been over a year since I updated this thread, but there has finally been progress! Here we go

That brings us to today, or as far as things came along before the winter set in.

She spent some time at the local GM Dealer for her first alignment, she turned lots of heads and brought lots of questions. People love Fieros even if they don't know what they are



Then I got my vanity plate.
Don't worry about the faded paint, that will be taken care of


And of course my sequential led taillights courtesy of embrace racing, double_c4 on here, but I don't think he makes them still


She's coming along, the supercharger whine is addictive, and I can't wait to take my car to some shows this summer

Embrace Racing is still around but not as active I believe. I emailed him not to long ago and he got back with me.

Car is coming along. You going to the Carlisle event this summer? My son and I am planning on making it from New Mexico if we can. I have family out there which is a win/win for me!

BTW, you should also change out the license plate lights to LED's to go better with the tails.

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