Well finally here are the pics of my winter ride.

This is what it started out as:

Here are shots of all of the rot in the wheelwell area. (This is after the sand blasting)

More pics coming......

This is the new fender. The underneath of that was sandblasted and painted as well.

Here are the pics of the rewelded, and re-sheet-metaled area after painting.

The battery tray area, and the area near the air cleaner assembly were also sandblasted and got new sheetmetal

Nice '88 GT clone! It looks like my 16K mile '88 GT, so at least you got the color combo right!

My car resembles the first pics. I just got my rust fixed. I wish it looked like the bottom pics!

Here are the stats of the car. 1987 GT, 84k miles. Auto. PW,PL,PM, cruise (doesn't work yet), A/C (Doesn't work yet), and Sunroof.

Things that were done to it.
-Sandblasted, welded and repainted almost all of the underbody.
-All new ball joints all around.
-New rear calipers
-New rotors and pads all around
-New front-upper control arm bushings
-New KYB shocks in the front
-New oil pressure sending unit
-New plugs wires and rotor (Bosch Platnium +4's, Splitfire 8mm, and Conrad cap and rotor)
-New paint-job (obviousley)
-New headlight
-Came with Kenwood 4x6's in the back, and I added Kenwood 4" component speakers to the front with a Kenwood KDC 3011 CD player I had.
-Has 88GT rims on it for the time-being. (My winter tires come in on wednesday, and those will be mounted on the original GT rims.
-Getting a new catalytic converter from Rodney by tuesday hopefully.
-New O2 Sensor and EGR valve
-New dog bone, w/poly

And the grand total for all of this, including the price of the car......1646 dollars and counting

Future work:
-New Rod bearings and high volume oil pump, (The oil pressure runs low)
-Polyurethane busings all around.
-Alignment
-New Tranny mount

This is probably going to be my summer car as well because I probably won't have enough money saved up to finish my engine in my 88GT, so I wanted to make this car nice and pretty, and reliable for the time-being, which it has been.
I just need to fix a couple more glitches (Cruise, A/c, and the temperature guage) and it will be in great condition!

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[This message has been edited by AkursedX (edited 12-16-2001).]

Well done. You did a job you can be proud of! A+++

I like

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Mike
85 GT 4sp(Sleeping)
If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

Nice work. I like the Repair work you did. Looks great.

Scott

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Looks great, nice job on the repairs!

I have a questin about the sand blasting, did you pay someone to do it, or do it yourself? What gets used for the actual job?

Im used to media blasting cabinets so the whole sandblasting the underbody is new to me, wire brushes are however all to familiar...

Looks *GREAT* man! Glad to see another one resurected!

Wow, that was some rust.... thank goodness we have plastic body pannels!

Best!
Ben

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Ben Cannon
88 Formula, T-top, Metalic Red           "Every Man Dies, not every man really Lives"
88 Formula, Northstar, Silver                     -Mel Gibson, "Braveheart"

Wow!
Looks good. Congrats!

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Raydar

From the Department of Redundancy Department.

Great restoration! You definitely deserve an "atta-boy" and a pat on the back! The car looks great now.

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quote Originally posted by Neal: [B] I have a questin about the sand blasting, did you pay someone to do it, or do it yourself? What gets used for the actual job? B]

I did the sandblasting myself with a heavy duty sandblaster running at about 125psi.

All I use for the actual job is Quikrete (sp?) Fine Grade Sand. You can find it around pretty readily.

I also have an industrial air dryer that helps alot. My air compressor likes to shoot out alot of water and the sand would get all binded up, but with my new dryer, that stuff never happens to me anymore.

And thanks to everyone else for the compliments This was my second big restoration job. I also did one on a 1988 Dodge Diplomat (That one required a new engine as well). But I feel that this one came out alot better. It was about 3 months of weekend work, and it was well worth it.

Great job, just one complaint. You said that's a winter car, and when I look at the pics of what it looks like "now", I don't see winter. I see green grass, and no snow. I'm just razzing ya though!

Brandon

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quote Originally posted by Brandon86SE: Great job, just one complaint. You said that's a winter car, and when I look at the pics of what it looks like "now", I don't see winter. I see green grass, and no snow. I'm just razzing ya though!

When I started reading your post I expected the complaint to be that it was too nice to be his "winter car"

Well, It's the middle of December and there is no snow on the ground here (even after our record-breaking snowstorm a few weeks ago). Most of the grass is still green here!

Until this past weekend I've never driven my Fiero in the middle of December! It was kinda wierd, but fun!

Well it did snow the day before I took the final pictures. The first time all year. Kinda strange for Buffalo....

Anyways, I'm glad it hasn't snowed, because I'm running a pair of Bridgestone RE-71's on the front, and they are just about out of tread. This would probably cause me an accident if it were snowing out.

I do have snow tires mounted on 14" steel rims, but I'm vain, and I rather have the better looks than the added security of snow tires. If it does start snowing, I will throw them on though.

But I ordered snow tires on Friday for the other GT rims, so I will have those by the end of the week. The rims are going to be painted all black, so it will definietly give the car a different look.

quote Originally posted by AkursedX: ...The rims are going to be painted all black, so it will definietly give the car a different look.

Are you going to paint the gold ones? Or the gray ones shown in the top photo- working pics. Seems sad to paint over a good set of gold wheels...

quote Originally posted by MinnGreenGT: Are you going to paint the gold ones? Or the gray ones shown in the top photo- working pics. Seems sad to paint over a good set of gold wheels...

No, I'm not painting over the gold one's. I will be painting the grey one's in the top pics. The Gold one's will go back on it in the spring time though, with a new set of front wheels.

And another Fiero saved from the crusher. Thankyou! Wow, that was a lot of work and you did a great job.

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