G.T. Fieros

damn you work fast you really want to have this on the road soon don't you.

Page 5 is mine

I put my new shift cable in, and now I only have 1, 3 and 5. I can't seem to get them adjusted to have enough throw to get back to 2, 4 and reverse.

I work like a bulldozer, slow and steady! I would like to have this on the road soon and get out to at least one event this year. I'll keep plugging away and see how far I get. Remember, it's a long weekend every weekend for me as I only work four days a week! Ha.
I also picked up my outer caliper housings from the powder coater. Nice red to show off my 13" rotors.

I decided to remove the upper back half of my car. This was done for a few reasons.
1)To do a few minor repairs and keep rust from spreading.
2)To make it easier to install my checker plate firewall.
3)To see how my custom cradle and Ecotec will look.
4)To have better access for the mock-up of the wiring.

Well, I made a little more progress on the turd. The 88 front suspension swap has been completely fit and is now ready to go for sand blasting and powder coating.
And the Ecotec is now sitting where I want it! Now I can start building the bracketry to mount this little screamer.

got plates and drove it for the first time after 160 hour of working on it

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It wouldn’t be any fun if it was easy! But does it have to be this much fun!!

160 hours! That's what I call a "heavy service".

I picked up some parts from the powder coater!

More progress on the Ecotec swap. As you can see, I have previously removed the rear sheet metal section of my car. Even so, there's lots of room around the engine to get at all the components easily.
The entire driveline is resting on it's mounts.
Note: I chose to mount the engine "straight up" versus the factory tilt of 10°. (This will explain the photo of the motor mount as it looks crooked compared to the engine.)
That's all for now. Enjoy the pics.

Looks great

I have a perfect set of 88 springs you can have if you need them, and also a practically new set of KYB front shocks for 88

In hopes of finding a "nice" rad saddle, I decided to....just make one.
I whipped this up in SolidWorks, cut on the laser and formed on the brake. Just for something to do of course. Lol.
Ooh, aah, stainless too! No crusty crap here any more.

I'll take you up on these parts. We'll chat in the future and discuss then.

Damn, that looks great! Now you have more options, if you want to install a larger rad, you could change you layout slightly to accommodate one.

I just for see one possibly slight flaw, the drain cork for the rad sits in the passenger side where the open cut out is on the stock support. Have you test fitted a rad in it yet?

Thanks Adam.
Since I'm running the 88 crossmember, I made this rad saddle as wide as possible. So in reality, I guess one could go a little larger on the rad. I'm certain my Ecotec will be happy with the stock Fiero-sized rad anyways.

The drain you speak about, good eye. Here's a picture or two to show the clearance. In addition to my lower rad saddle, I guess I could have added a dedicated drainage hole. Since my rad saddle has been TIG welded, it's damn near liquid tight. But, should I open the drain valve, the coolant will find it's way out, via gravity, to any opening it'll find. There are a few places that it can escape from. I'll drill a hole later should it be needed.

just insert a small piece of pipe in the rad drain hole, you can bend it out of the way. This way if you ever need to drain from there, keep your nice lower rad support clean.