Rickady88GT V8 build thread (Page 40/42)
Rickady88GT DEC 16, 10:35 PM
Sorry, failed
I will try again
Test

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Trinten DEC 17, 11:36 AM
Hey Ricky,

You might be able to use https://archive.org/ to look up the pages on this site (or others) when the pictures were still there. Then you can save them from that Archive and re-upload them someplace (and make backups!)
Rickady88GT DEC 17, 02:47 PM
Thank you
Franked JUL 13, 01:03 PM
Hey, bump up.. Any issues getting smogged on renewals?
I want to do the LS4 in the car I will be getting, just seeing if the tune made a difference.
Love your work, mine will NOT be that nice, I'm sure.
Rickady88GT JUL 14, 08:27 PM

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Originally posted by Franked:

Hey, bump up.. Any issues getting smogged on renewals?
I want to do the LS4 in the car I will be getting, just seeing if the tune made a difference.
Love your work, mine will NOT be that nice, I'm sure.



Thanks, no I had no issues getting it to pass the regular smog inspections. They just scan the sticker that the ref installs in your door jamb and then the dyno/tail pipe test.
With this new label, your car is no longer a Fiero at the smog shop, it is the donor car. It will not be smogged as a Fiero any longer. So the fuel line pinch test is not used.
If you tune out ANY emissions programming, you will be failed. The transmission is as much a part of emissions equipment as the engine is. They are inseparable.

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Rickady88GT JUL 14, 08:42 PM
I highly recommend getting an entire donor car to do a California emissions legal LS4 engine swap. But this is not an absolute necessity, just a convenience of having ALL of the parts from the same car that you know runs fine before the swap. If it no longer runs fine after the swap,....well I guess you screwed something up LOL. But mismatched parts are not always compatible with one another.
Having documentation that proves the components came factory assembled helps the ref validate the swap. Mismatched parts may require you to validate the compatibility of the parts. I had to do this for the Cat and airfilter box at my expense and time, then make another appointment to show the verification. Pain in the but, but my next one should go smoother knowing now what I did not know then.
Franked JUL 15, 09:39 AM
Thanks for the reply, California is a pain, I hope to somehow circumvent re-smogging mine after the first time, Maybe an Address in Arcata(by Eureka) after first time. They should change the law. Someone tried.
CA AB 210 was voted down this feb, would have relaxed the laws to 1983, instead of 1975 for exempt, That wouldn't help Fiero owners yet, but it's a step in the right direction. The bill had a thing in there about too high cost to make a car pass earning the car a legitimate waiver, and no more smogging for that vehicle.
Rickady88GT JUL 15, 12:36 PM

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Originally posted by Franked:

Thanks for the reply, California is a pain, I hope to somehow circumvent re-smogging mine after the first time, Maybe an Address in Arcata(by Eureka) after first time. They should change the law. Someone tried.
CA AB 210 was voted down this feb, would have relaxed the laws to 1983, instead of 1975 for exempt, That wouldn't help Fiero owners yet, but it's a step in the right direction. The bill had a thing in there about too high cost to make a car pass earning the car a legitimate waiver, and no more smogging for that vehicle.



If the years of emissions testing does come down, the value of the Fiero will go up for sure.

But getting the car to pass emissions the first time will require a good bit of work. I originally planned on doing my swap in such a way that I can swap out the auto for a manual. But my plans changed, partly because I did not have a complete list of parts needed to do the changeover. So I just did the auto swap. I have the F40 but I want to Crack it open and do a gearset change and possibly a limited slip differential first.
Rickady88GT AUG 03, 11:49 PM
I needed to change the oil in my LS4 but didn't have the time to do it myself. So for the first time ever, I took it in to a service station and had them do it. I drove up and a few employers noticed the sound but did not realize it was from a Fiero. Around here we have LOTS of v8 muscle cars with a healthy rumble. So I drove into the shop and that got attention. The guy says "I thought I heard a v8" as he went to the front of the car to lift the hood from the front bumper side. LOL, I almost laughed out loud but kept it together. I had already popped the deck lid and pointed at the back of the car "the engine is back there". He walked back and opened the lid "WHOH LOOK AT THIS" Every employee at the shop was taking pictures of it. Even the car in the next bay was looking. Lots of questions, comments and great jobs.
As I think back to the day I learned about an LS4 for sell, I remember my wife saying "put it in the Fiero". I asked "why, I am.happy with the ShortStar?" She said "for the sound". That sound still is one of the biggest advantages of the swap. It sounds great even when it isn't even moving.
Trinten AUG 04, 07:33 AM

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Originally posted by Rickady88GT:

I needed to change the oil in my LS4 but didn't have the time to do it myself. So for the first time ever, I took it in to a service station and had them do it. I drove up and a few employers noticed the sound but did not realize it was from a Fiero. Around here we have LOTS of v8 muscle cars with a healthy rumble. So I drove into the shop and that got attention. The guy says "I thought I heard a v8" as he went to the front of the car to lift the hood from the front bumper side. LOL, I almost laughed out loud but kept it together. I had already popped the deck lid and pointed at the back of the car "the engine is back there". He walked back and opened the lid "WHOH LOOK AT THIS" Every employee at the shop was taking pictures of it. Even the car in the next bay was looking. Lots of questions, comments and great jobs.
As I think back to the day I learned about an LS4 for sell, I remember my wife saying "put it in the Fiero". I asked "why, I am.happy with the ShortStar?" She said "for the sound". That sound still is one of the biggest advantages of the swap. It sounds great even when it isn't even moving.



I love hearing about experiences like that. Really makes me appreciate the Fiero in general, and engine swaps in particular.