Selling my daily 1988 yellow Formula 5 speed (Page 1/2)
lou_dias APR 16, 09:45 PM
https://www.facebook.com/gr...t_id=956717281161148

Need to trim down how many Fieros I own.
I'm sure I'm forgetting something but here goes:

5 speed. A/C, sunroof, spoiler, intermittent wiper ... 127k miles but only 20k on 3100 block fully rebuilt and bored to 3.4L and Camaro 3.4L pistons with ported and polished iron heads. Summit 1.6 full roller rockers. Rodney Dickman under-drive pulley. Fiero Store coated Sprint manifolds and crossover pipe, cat-delete, new Ocelot SS exhaust. New axle thrust stabilizer bearings and polyurethane powder-coated rear control arms. Recent brakes and rear struts. Monsoon stereo with upgraded speakers and aux-in. Fidanza aluminum flywheel with SPEC stage 3+ clutch. DAWG intake mod with fully ported intake and 57mm Dale Morse ported throttle body, EGR-deleted. Camaro injectors purchased new. New water pump. New distributor, cap, rotor, MSD coil, ACCEL 8.5mm wires. Factory leather seats from an 86GT. Sunroof. Power locks and windows, though driver's side window is slow. Needs a paint job but is mechanically perfect. Dyno'd at 146rwhp with bad ignition, so I upgraded all the ignition components and now it runs even stronger. It's a daily so I never tuned it after that, just made sure it was running right. Stock 2.8 Fieros dyno at 115rwhp brand new. Also has my prototype shift-surround. Has been my daily driver since I bought it in 2010. In no hurry to sell it. It was a daily so there is some wear to the interior, not much and it's fair share of chipped and/or faded paint. Head-lights go up and down like new. Just got a new alignment. Only thing I haven't replaced is front shocks.

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lou_dias APR 17, 08:16 AM
Walk around and start up.

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lou_dias APR 19, 12:30 PM
bump
SurferGeorge APR 19, 08:32 PM
Lou,

Why was it repainted? Rust status? Clear US title in your name w/o liens? E-brake and headlights work OK? Price?

TNX
lou_dias APR 21, 05:27 PM

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Originally posted by SurferGeorge:

Lou,

Why was it repainted? Rust status? Clear US title in your name w/o liens? E-brake and headlights work OK? Price?

TNX


This has been my daily for the past 8 years so yes, everything works. Previous owner repainted it, but he told me it was the original owner that repainted it. It does need a new paint job.
Car is still currently registered with an antique plate. Needs to have EGR edited out of the programming to run perfect since I removed the valve when I had the newly rebuilt engine put in. So on tip-in it stumbles but then runs very strong.
I'm sure someone could sell you a chip for cheap with the EGR delete.
Price I am *asking* is in the facebook post.

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SurferGeorge APR 22, 05:47 PM
Louis -

If this was a 3.8SC, and < 100k miles, $6,500 would be OK with me. However, since it is not either of these I would be interested at $5k. As a guy who has done many, many projects I have only gotten back ~ 40% ROI. For your car, I would have to replace the Cats and whatever else the very difficult MD inspection required.

r/G
lou_dias APR 22, 08:18 PM

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Originally posted by SurferGeorge:

Louis -

If this was a 3.8SC, and < 100k miles, $6,500 would be OK with me. However, since it is not either of these I would be interested at $5k. As a guy who has done many, many projects I have only gotten back ~ 40% ROI. For your car, I would have to replace the Cats and whatever else the very difficult MD inspection required.

r/G


The asking price is to shoo away low ballers. I don't expect 6500. If I gave you a parts and labor list of every part, I'd be well below 30%. I don't have emissions testing in my state so I removed components that tend to fail. When I dyno'd it at 146 rwhp, that was with many bad ignition components and the curve was shaky and it didn't like to rev much past 4k.... I never bothered to dyno it or tune it again AFTER because it was just my daily driver and replacing the entire ignition (everything) made it run like night and day. It's making more power than that now but I couldn't say how much because I don't make statements I can't prove. Even running poorly it made 11rwhp more than a standard 3.4 swap. All I know it that it makes enough power that someone wouldn't consider a swap anytime soon. A fully rebuilt 20k engine should last someone a long time. Someone could fly out here from across the country and drive this car all the way home. No need for towing. No issues.

I also have a bolt-on twin turbo setup for sale for $500. The compression is 9.0 to one and uses a block with the knock sensor on it already. Someone would just have to do a 7730 conversion to run it. But that's another story.

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lou_dias APR 27, 02:41 PM
Weekend bump.
Gonna let my cousin drive it tomorrow. He may be interested.
lou_dias MAY 30, 10:00 AM
Currently replacing a long bolt for the rear tie rod and upgrading to Rodney's girdle.
If I don't get an offer soon, I might make this car my new track car after converting to 7730 and adding a twin turbo kit I have laying around...
lou_dias JUL 26, 01:07 PM
Asking price lowered to $5800.