Real Fiero Tech

Here are some recent pics of me and my Fiero(s). Mostly the black one, but the maroon 3.4 DOHC car slipped in one of the pics (Passenger running lamp out). Fieros SUCK in snow, but look cool in it

Cars look nice. Get some snow tires, mine does just fine in the snow.

Your shirt sleeve is all dirty.

Hahaha, that's not dirt, that's the shirt :thumbleft:

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V8Archie wrote:I smell burnt rubber and poop..

sounds like you forgot to lube


poor Aaron

Aaron wrote:Here are some recent pics of me and my Fiero(s). Mostly the black one, but the maroon 3.4 DOHC car slipped in one of the pics (Passenger running lamp out). Fieros SUCK in snow, but look cool in it

Would you expect a Corvette to be good in the snow with summer tires? Get decent snow tires and your cars will be great in the snow. I'm not as much of a snow bird as these Canadian fucks, but I've done my share of driving in the snow with a Fiero and it's not bad.

Now my dad's AMC Eagle or my 6000 AWD... those are good snow cars.

My maroon car has better than decent tires, and bigger than stock, yet is just as bad.

I'm sure it isn't as bad as other cars, but it still sucks. The ground clearence is probably its biggest setback, next is a complete lack of steering control. You turn the wheel, it slides straight. Every time, good tires or bad. The getting it to move part isn't too bad, but a Civic still seems to crawl out better.

This "hill" outside my house, the one just beyond where the tracks start, when covered in snow, neither Fiero could make it up:

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So what could I have done, as a driver, to better enable the cars to climb the hill?

Read, it isn't the tires.

Lastly, I drive a Fiero in the snow. Because that's the only car I have to drive in the snow, and I only have to worry about it for 2 weeks out of the year.

Aaron wrote:My maroon car has better than decent tires, and bigger than stock, yet is just as bad.

Are they WINTER tires?

Aaron wrote:You turn the wheel, it slides straight. Every time, good tires or bad.

Mid-engine weight transfer works on snow too.

I had a 2M4 winter beater with winter tires, best winter car I ever had.

You suck at the snow.

I drove my Fiero in Oklahoma with Turanza all weather tires. Never had a problem. I threw a couple big bags of kitty litter in the front compartment. About 100 pounds of extra weight on the front wheels, plus the kitty litter can give traction if you do happen to get stuck.

I've made it to work on snow, ice, slush etc. on just all weather touring tires when the guys in their 4x4's were getting into pileups. I just smiled and waved as I drove right past... I was driving like 20 miles on paved and unpaved roads when others who lived just halfway across town were calling off.

Having an auto tranny downshift in the middle of a slick hill though....

stimpy wrote:I drove my Fiero in Oklahoma with Turanza all weather tires. Never had a problem. I threw a couple big bags of kitty litter in the front compartment. About 100 pounds of extra weight on the front wheels, plus the kitty litter can give traction if you do happen to get stuck.

I bet 100lbs would do A LOT of good. Add to that I took out my spare tire, and washer fluid, and A/C, on both of the Fieros, so that's a lot of weight off the front tires.

On a side note, Oklahoma /= Colorado. In the 3 years I've been in OK, it's really snowed just once.

The only car my family has had that's been worse was our 3 Camaros. The Ford Contour, Lumina Z34, Jeeps, 4x4 trucks, etc, are all by far better. The Lumina actually did well...lol

Proper winter tires on a car like a fiero are 195 or 205s all around. The kitty litter idea is a great one as well.

So far this winter I have been driving my skyline occasionally on its 245 summer tires and have yet to get stuck. AWD helps but knowing how to winter drive is the most important.

I don't know... the fiero is "okay" in the snow. Maybe if you had 100's (do they make those?) in the front, with a front compartment loaded with lead shot.... When I drove in the snow the front end would want to plow straight. This was when the snow was fresh - up to the bottom of the nose I think.

My neighbor across the street had this old 70's ford 4x4 with mudding tires. I would have thought it would be perfect for the snow, but he couldn't go over 30 without fishtailing.

All the FWD cars I had at the time were perfect in the snow. Even with the 245 all seasons all around. The fiero was okay... the rwd camaro and cutlass sucked ass, even with sand in the back.

For snow you want narrow tires that sink in and cut through the slush. Mudders are wide to spread the truck's weight out and take as big a "bite" out of the mud as possible.

Aaron wrote:So what could I have done, as a driver, to better enable the cars to climb the hill?

Starting the hill climb in second gear, from a stop would help alot. The higher your gear, the slower your rpm will climb and you can build some momentum before you spin the tires, then you can quickly shift into 3rd or straight to 4th, your gonna bog the motor, but you will make it.