Real Fiero Tech

From SPEC, the lightweight option is a billet rather than cast pressure plate (the plate itself--the cover is still stamped steel).

They also sell an aluminum flywheel for the V6.

The stock V6 fylwheel is about 14#. That's not very heavy as flywheels go.

You could run them all up from below the manifold... might make it look cleaner...

Just read an article on the tC in some car mag. It has a 4AZ-FE engine--2.4 litre 4 cylinder with 160 HP. That makes it sound pretty darn low cammed, which would make it great for turbo use.

Yeah, your math is right.

Who makes a 5.9" rod??

I did.
You gonna boost a 10:1 iron head engine?

That's a 1ZZ-FE, right? If he ever hits the gas anywhere but a dyno he's gonna lunch transmissions pretty quick...

eHoward wrote:Acually, I would consider doing custom forgings anyway so I could design my own quench area.

2.8's use flat tops stock and don't have a heck of a lot of compression to begin with... Custom dishes would be overkill...

but even so I have thought this for some time but never really had the need to do it. Howard gave the idea of grindign away the "quench" area which I thought was pretty nifty. I dont' think it will make that big of a difference really. Flat top pistons and all. It will give a few more cc'...

Thanks. Oh yeah... how far out on the sides of the chamber can you go? Hogging the chamber out to the left and right in the picture might pay dividends for unshrouding the valves (that is, if there's room there and you don't end up with a chamber that's bigger than the bore...) I see that you carved...

Playing with chambers can get finicky. There's not likely to be much you can do to screw up the chambers in the iron heads, though... For example... remember that Tim Allen wanted to start a line of Caddy speed parts? His shop got to porting the N* heads, and they got the flow numbers up on the benc...

Well, the reason for an aftermarket ECU would be because the stock computer can't handle anymore than the normal W41 cams. How much you want for the turbo? The stock COMPUTER can handle anything you can build. It's the stock CALIBRATION that doesn't like mods. Q4 ECM's have been hacked pretty well....

Assuming you know what A/R is... large A/R flows a lot of air through a large housing close to the CL of the turbine wheel. Thus, you need a lot of air to generate torque and spool the turbo. Small A/R flows less air, but at a greater distance from the CL of the turbine wheel. Not as much air is nee...

I am not sure if the bellhousings will transfer over or not from one tranny to the other but I would guess they don't. otherwise people would swap bellhousings of the 3.94 trannies to fit a Fiero engien bolt pattern. The bellhousings are swappable on teh 282, as long as the diff carrier bearing pre...

eHoward wrote:When did FSAE get budget restrictions?

They don't? I thought there was a 20,000 budget or some such...

I hadn't been following very closely because I don't get Speed here. :salute: Adelphia... A 2.4 V8 is just a 3.0 V10 with two cylinders lopped off. I think that F1 is over-regulated. F1, IMO, is about the best technology. If they can get the same specific output out of an engine that lasts 3x longer...

I might as well go... I think I've had more Fieros than anyone else here so far. I bought my first one when I was in college (umm... Junior year, maybe? I think it was summer of '99). It was an original blue '87 GT with 175K on it. I paid too much and prolly shouldn't have bought that car, but I was...

Ultimate 85 wrote:I imagine you've already read about this brake buildup? [url]

That's exactly the front setup that I'm talking about improving.

That's exactly the front setup that I'm talking about improving.

I have the 5x115 conversion rear, which gives me 10.5x1 rotors and larger piston calipers (although no hand brake... looking into that). What I'm talking about is for the front. It uses 11.25" LeBaron rotors. These already have the 5x100 pattern. Normally, people use 3rd Gen Camaro calipers, bu...

Mostly for the hell of it...

A 3.1 TDC with flat tops would have a compression ratio of about 8.5:1 and a rod ratio of 2:1 along with accompanying detonation resistance...