3800 Rebuild

[CincinnatiFiero]

Got the shorter axle in, which now is hair too short as you can see by the boot, but the bearing make contact in the tripot and it spins freely. The suspension is also hanging low, so when the weight is on it, it won't stick out as far. This is how I ran before, so we'll see.

It was a battle to get the shocks out, took a reciprocating saw and a air grinder to get them out, but they are in, replaced the hardware with grade 8 parts and threadlocked everything


For some reason the bolts for my struts will not let the nuts go down them, the one side I got both on, it was sort of hard, but they didn't take too much force. The other side, neither bolt will go on. I sandblasted them and hit them with the wire wheel to clean all the threads, and nothing, so I need to see if lowes has new nuts that fit better

Don't know if these pics have been posted, but for all you .nl'ers calling the grand am conversion a big brake kit:



Kicking around making this work, the guy who owned the fiero farm made one work, so we'll see, I need to make a dummy plug to cover the oil fill hole on the cover.

[Aaron]

Fuck the cover. Be proud of your time, money, and energy, show it off a bit. Just clean it up, paint some things, and let that all show. I hate it when people put plastic covers over engines. My friend over the weekend put the Northstar cover over the motor, brain-storming how to make it look better. I took it off, and smashed it with a hammer.

[CincinnatiFiero]

[Emc209i]

My friend over the weekend put the Northstar cover over the motor, brain-storming how to make it look better. I took it off, and smashed it with a hammer.

That's the one guy who crashed your car isn't it. So you're back to having no friends again huh?

[Emc209i]

Wheels look good Paul! Remind me of some other sexshy wheels.

[Aaron]

That's the one guy who crashed your car isn't it. So you're back to having no friends again huh?

Yah, so what? We're still friends.

So what are your dyno numbers? When are you going to smash mine with your 3800? My car is totaled and I'll probably make it to the track before you ever do.

[Emc209i]

My car is totaled

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[CincinnatiFiero]

Wheels look good Paul! Remind me of some other sexshy wheels.

They remind me of yours lol.

That's the one guy who crashed your car isn't it. So you're back to having no friends again huh?

Yah, so what? We're still friends.

So what are your dyno numbers? When are you going to smash mine with your 3800? My car is totaled and I'll probably make it to the track before you ever do.

Aaron, emc shits on your personality, not your car. We can't dyno that. If paul wandered around saying the L67 made more hp than anything due to his exceptional "engineering," that's another story. Unlike you he tried both, and HIS experiential data says the 3.4TDC is a flaming pile of shit, but that's just HIS data. So let me know what you think about oh I dunno my L67 axle, or how I could fab a new intake, or kindly show yourself out of my thread, I like emc, and don't like you starting pissing matches, refer to the RFTVTW for that.

[CincinnatiFiero]

Got the big brake kit on, lolz

So these two strut bolts will not work for some reason. The nut will not go on the bolt. I am pretty sure they are the right ones, I even sandblasted the one to try to make it work. So I need to get a matched set from some donor car or something, this is preventing me from putting the car on the ground

So my heater line decided it got shorter in the rebuild, so $5 later at lowes:

Never worked on a trans before, so here goes:
Accumulator out

Piston out, "medium" shift kit longer spacer installed on the bottom half

Now the 1-2 spring is weaker than the 2-3 spring, so I replaced my 1-2 spring with a new ACDelco 2-3 spring, comparo

Pressed in the piston

The shorter spacer from the shift kit installed

Back together

Torqued down

In the car


Now, a tree fell on this car at some point, explaining why the roof never fit. Any brilliant ideas as to how I could pull this out?



Powdercoat is pretty

[BC2002SS]

weld pins and a slide hammer.

[CincinnatiFiero]

A friend has one, now to get him to bring it over...

No real updates, I helped my friend put brakes and struts on his 300D instead of work on my car.

Got the fuel lines hooked up, I think the coil bracket will work, I am a little concerned about decklid clearance.

Got strut bolts finally so the car can sit on the ground as soon as my tuner lugs come in

I need to try to fab a fenderwell intake, I think I am going to go all .NL and use some black plastic plumbing pipe from lowes, for like <$15 I can buy a couple bends and it won't be hard to drill a hole for the temp sensor.

[CincinnatiFiero]

Can I make A/C lines with barbed hose male/male fittings and worm clamps? A couple swaps on .nl have that, and I wouldn't mind hooking up my A/C lines.

[Emc209i]

Answer is no. Don't be nigger rigging shit. You know better.

[CincinnatiFiero]

That was my thought haha. Can't find a shop around here to do it. Hopefully I will have a pin welder and slide hammer this coming weekend to work on that roof.

[The Dark Side of Will]

The hose clamps will work, but you'll have to vacuum the system down to swap them out for crimp sleeves.

[CincinnatiFiero]

Like the CV, crimp type bands? Would you use that with a metal barbed hose fitting?

[CincinnatiFiero]

Never glassed before (if you can call this glassing) its baby steps towards re-doing my roof splice. $18 later at wally world, here we are.


I tried to glue it together before to no avail, laying some resin and some glass cloth


Flipped it over to glass from both sides

[jelly2m81]

Answer is no. Don't be nigger rigging shit. You know better.

I LOLed!

[jelly2m81]

Never glassed before (if you can call this glassing) its baby steps towards re-doing my roof splice. $18 later at wally world, here we are.

You fiberglassing skills suck, theres no valleys and mountains that need bondo. You needs fiberglassing expertise from dem der boys down in Pennsyltuckey!

[coinage]

Never glassed before (if you can call this glassing) its baby steps towards re-doing my roof splice. $18 later at wally world, here we are.

You fiberglassing skills suck, theres no valleys and mountains that need bondo. You needs fiberglassing expertise from dem der boys down in Pennsyltuckey!

I knew Id be ashamed to live in the same state as them...Bastards...