Real Fiero Tech

I'd like to see the 4200 in there, I personally like the motor though I admittedly have very little practical experience with it. Good looking truck. Can't tell if its a nice truck, or you've gone all VW vortex and taken nice photos of a pile of shit. :twisted: lol, we'll say that the truck is soli...

The atlas makes good power and torque, and should get decent economy, and be more unique, it's what I intend to use in the truck. I sometimes like doing things people tell me not to do.

we'll just say I like taking the path less traveled. like I said, not worried about the truck hauling ass, more just having a fun, unique, daily driver.

picked up an old pickup for a beater driver. currently has a 327 or 350 (SPID says 350, block casting says 327), turns out it's burning oil on #6, runs ok still, but I'm not a fan of riding on 7 good cylinders and one bad... long term I'm going to swap a vortec 4200 I6 and a 4L65E into it. I'm goin...

picked up an old pickup for a beater driver. currently has a 327 or 350 (SPID says 350, block casting says 327), turns out it's burning oil on #6, runs ok still, but I'm not a fan of riding on 7 good cylinders and one bad... long term I'm going to swap a vortec 4200 I6 and a 4L65E into it. I'm going...

Would there be any benefit/danger to having the IMS and crank journals repolished? ( or would this be a foregone conclusion upon replacing bearings ) You should have the crank polished if you can. Just measure them first to make sure you're not on the small end of the spec. If you're at the middle ...

I've been shifting my 282 at 7k. It's slower than I'd like going into 2nd, even with the 3.50/2.19 combo, *but* I still have ATF in it and haven't swapped to Synchromesh yet. A full face disk will result in slower shifts than a puck-type disk. A larger diameter disk will also shift more slowly than...

I have experience with multiple clutches from both vendors. I thought I had a comparison thread on here somewhere but I'm not sure where it went. Did you do a search? Some info: Clutchnet Dual Friction http://realfierotech.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=17112 The Clutchnet disc looks much sturdi...

I'm looking at two clutches for my 3500 F23 fiero, a clutchnet stage 3 or a spec stage 3. anyone have any real world experience with either clutch?

do it! lets see a unique swap instead of another boring LSx engine.

if you go the 3900 route, do you plan to keep VVT and the variable intake? if not, what are your plans for engine management?

goodluck!

I purchased a Nascar Car of Tomorrow (COT) wing from Ebay. The wing uses the LNV109A airfoil. The reason I mounted it so far back and high is to improve the chance of it ending up in relatively clean airflow. "Any time you can raid a NASCAR parts bin, do it." - from that shock comparison ...

Thanks!

it's looking like it will cost around that to have it shipped here, I only have one quote so far, and it was for $850. it might be cheaper to get a Uhaul trailer and haul it myself, IDK, I've still got some time to iron that out.

well, I'm out of boot camp, I'm going to try and get the car shipped up here so I can get some work done on the weekends. looks like shipping will run somewhere around $750-$850...

for me, it was Seebees or Submarines, in this instance, submarines won. I've signed as a nuke, we'll see how far that goes though. I want to be a nuke Machinist's Mate and go to welding school for some professional training, instead point and shoot I've been doing for the past couple of years. I'm s...

Oh yeah, I think you'd mentioned that before... I knew you were in Pensacola. Don't go too wild in NOLA the night before! You'll pay for it! Is there a boot camp in NOLA, or are they sending you to Great Lakes? Hangover +bootcamp sounds like a Terrible idea... I will be at great lakes, it is the na...

Navy, on my way to meps nola right now to ship.

got the engine back, finished the final assembly, installed the flywheel and clutch, installed a new HTOB, bled the master, bled the line, started bleeding the HTOB, and apparently, it's defective. there's a nice little puddle of hydraulic fluid dripping out from the bellhousing. :-o never got a ped...

I think the only guy who's done anything serious with one of those was RickAdy on Old Europe. Some outfit who used to offer Northstar ECM's and sand-rail wiring harnesses also claimed to work with the Shortstar... It's been a LOOONG time since I looked for them, though. yeah, I read a couple of his...

Larger wheel is more accurate... that's why a good many OE systems put the triggering notches on the flywheel or flexplate. However, larger diameter means greater MOI. The MOI of a basic Chevy flexplate is approximately the same as that of the entire crankshaft, due to the dependence of MOI on the ...