Real Fiero Tech

Finally finished a "working" prototype of the griffin radiator mounting setup... I know this is "waaaay" overbuilt but my tig skills still suck balls so I assembled the aluminum frame using flush hammered rivets from aluminum rod. When my tig skills 'ever' improve I'll go back an...

In lieu of this discussion... With my LF3/4 install, I'll be running the LF4 wiring ECU and engine fuse/relay center in the trunk cavity where the 88 GT no longer has the auxiliary engine bay fan passing the engine to fuse/relay/ECU wiring through the rear firewall... however, I still have a mass of...

Series8217 wrote: ↑Tue May 31, 2022 11:14 pm I am working on '88 front and rear knuckles that will take Corvette 5x4.75 as well as a 5x114.3 hub. I don't have a lot of free time to work on these things so don't ask when they'll be done... it may be years.

When will they be done?

Back onto the fiero and about to replace the fuel cam, springs, and lifters on the LF3/4 after relearning and repairing my Mazda automatic climate control system... Back to practicing tig too... While working on the ac system in the mazda, I was thinking about the fiero AC system in the essence of g...

The Dark Side of Will wrote: ↑Mon Apr 11, 2022 10:47 am

eHoward wrote: ↑Sun Apr 10, 2022 6:38 pm she hates the car I think more than anything else I can recall on the planet.

This is The Way.

That ,sir.....was funny...

they are utilizing segments of HIV DNA to bring down our immune system to allow the lipid nano particles "temporarily" through the double cell layers to "get" to our DNA with mRNA was enough for me to say Nay Nay.... Not this honkey.... Is that just for information, or is it fea...

Touche'....... Good point... point taken...

Indeed... McCullough's interview is another required watch. Ryan Cole is another and Steve Kirsch and the senator led panel by Ron Johnson.... I just posted the Malone interview as an introduction to the underlying and censored truths and mass formation psychosis. Where one goes after watching the a...

Got trans and engine mated up last weekend. Did ultimately drain the HTOB and create two studs out of metric threaded rod. Those along with the alignment pins I was able to pull the two together, turning the engine over occasionally as I went to make sure the input shaft and clutch were mated. Using...

you said you primed/bled the HTOB, did you leave it compressed? does the fluid have a path out of the HTOB? if not, then it probably won't compress d/t the fluid in it. FWIW, the F23 quick disconnect for the clutch line (I assume F40 is similar) is designed to hold fluid in on both sides to minimiz...

If you remove the HTOB and it goes together, then obvi the HTOB is the issue. Have you actually test fit the clutch disk on the input shaft? If the manufacturer assembled the disk with the wrong hub--it's happened!--then that would also prevent it from fitting. Can you get long 12x1.75 bolts and ch...

You said you used a clutch alignment tool. I am assuming it's one for a fiero? Or something similar like a cavalier? Or did you use the one spec provided to match an f40? Perhaps the clutch you got is not correct spline? A test fit sliding just the clutch onto the input shaft may be in order. If it...

Slightly modified cradle back from powder coating (satin black) Custom engine/transmission mounts cleaned, flash rusted, hit with POR15 then top coated with chassis black New Saab TOB installed and primed in rebuilt F40 with SPEC spacer installed Proper depth 10.9 flanged bolts for all engine/transm...

Lanthanated tips ordered...

I was having issues with my arc wandering between the two plates, not pooling both, and then porosity would kick in and ruined the weld all with being pretty clean near perfect fitup.

I'm using a 1/4" aluminum plate as a welding table/surface, any ground problems with that?

Right now just using the green tip out of the box..

Acetone... check

I'm using the recommended settings on top of the unit for 1/8" aluminum plate practice coupons..

Used a stainless only brush in only one direction then alcohol but I gather from your question that I need to wire wheel it to really get it clean...

Gaahhh!! Tig is frustrating... :fool: Yes it's the eastwood AC/DC I can lay a decent bead on a practice coupon "if" it's clean.... pulled some old aluminum scrap out, cut it, brushed it with stainless, and cleaned it, but the oxidation was still there and created a ton of 'garbage' floatin...

Finally opened up and fired up my Eastwood hf tig welder.... Never tig'd before and had Nomad teach me what he's learned thus far. Definitely a learning curve compared to mig/Flux....