Thread: The fiero gm should have built

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new to this site kinda got into this fiero thing 2 years ago and wanted to sheare my project.i have bought 3 fiero gts 1 runing 1 siting for 10 years and 1 87 gt under a colapsed shed bought for the wheels it was a parts car little did i now this car would be my center of attn. with all the engine swaps being done i wanted somthing differnt.i had seen some longitudinal fiero build ups witch interested me. i started buy buying a olds 350 with a th325 trans for $200 but did not plan on using the engine. wanting to be differnt than the other logetudinal engine swaps with engine pointing forward this puts the engine and trans wieght behind the rear wheels. i bought a diferntial flip kit that flips the differntial upside down alowing the engine to be turned around backwards puting the engine and trans wieght in front of the rear wheels. now for the engine most longitudinal fieros use 350 i wanted to be differnt i wanted the bigest engine i could afford. 20 years earler i worked at a salvage yard where there was 76 eldo with a 500 caddy motor had never been tuched and was still there last year $500 so i bought it not nowing if i could use it or not. got the engine home started geting things together engine and trans bolted up great but the diffential would take more work. when you flip one of these it moves the axle shaft 3 inches hire witch ment the axle had to go thew the oil pan no big deal as i have modifyd many oil pans on other projects. ended up modifying the oil pan,oil pick up,maincap no big deal worked great.i used cv joints and parts off the shelf mix match gm stuff. maken brakits and misc pieces engine mounts was no problem. after a got every thing to gether i toor everything apart rebuilt the engine and trans reasembled everything.i have driven this car and it absolutly rips car has a 242ratio and would proubly go 175+mph not with me driven. this car actully drives better than my other fieros.more info and picture coming soon. please tell me what you think i have not showed this to the public yet. buy the way i do custom engine and fab here in missiouri

Looking forward to seeing pics and details. This is hot rodding at its best.

welcome to chr. love the fieros. i also believe that gm could have done so much more with them.

Welcome to CHR. We're not far from each other and if there's something I could help you with give me a shout.

not sure why the picture size is so big

That sucker will fly. One question, where you gonna sit, glove box? Lol

Welcome to CHR. That thing is gonna rip!

Keith

Welcome to CHR.

Can someone with editorial rights shrink those pic's so we can read the first post without going across three screens??

didn't fieroboy have a longitudinal toronado transaxled front aimed 454 engine in the back of his?
yeah I love those toro transaxles. versatile as all ****.
sounds fUn- welcome

cant change my hight or width on this pictures. but you can change your zoom to fit

Originally Posted by mike pierce

cant change my hight or width on this pictures. but you can change your zoom to fit

Sure you can. One way (from Uncle Bob) is to simply open your file in Microsoft Paint, click on Attributes and you see the size in pixels - yours are 2047x1535 now and they need to be not bigger than 1024x768 or so which is ~50%. Select Image Resize/Skew, type in 50% and save the file with a new name or add a letter to it so you keep your high res file. Here's one at 30% - you could probably use 50% for them to be a little bigger, but this works:

coilover shocks? how many pounds for the springs?

dunno what mine are but they're too light/soft

WARNING: Please be very carefull with your Fiero. they tend to be horny little buggers, as I found out the hard way. they multiplied until I had 12 of them at one time. I did manage to adopt out most of them and only have 2 remaining at the moment (1 SBC and 1 Northstar powered) but I do park them further apart these days.
Your car is looking great! you might want to concider fabricating a support bar between the spring towers now that the forward trunk "wall" had been removed. that thing should haul buns when you get er'done.

Russ

factory springs at the moment but i do have a coil over convertion but i havent bought springs yet probably around a 500 or 600 lb spring

wow russ. when you say lotsatoys you are not kidding.