I just did mine.I used the whole GT set up.Lights deck lid and GT vents. I basically cut the last foot off a GT and scotch taped it the Coupe. I have molded everything together and if you didn't know it wasn't supposed to be like that no one would know. I'm going to try and get some pics later tonight.
So there are a lot of different ways I could have done this and would like to know who else has done it and what they did.
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My fetish Fiero is the Purple Pavement Eater and it's sorta like a Fastback/notchback weirdo choptop conversion.. It the Sexiest car I have ever seen..
Get some pictures up here!
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Its been done a few times actually... Its decent if you like the GT taillights.... I'm not that much of a fan, but a fastback with notchback tails, and no space (See PPG cars).... yeah thats awesome
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Fierobsessed Member
Posts: 4782 From: Las Vegas, NV Registered: Dec 2001
Is this conversion hard to do? Personally, I don't mind the notch back tail lights (even though the GT are cooler) but my friend thinks its the only weakness in the Fiero. I should care what other people think but hey, its worth a look.
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Dec 8th, 2005
YELLOWFIERO88 Member
Posts: 1329 From: Cincinnati, Ohio Registered: Nov 2004
yeah thats the Purple Pavement Eater I mentioned earlier... Sexiest Fiero ever!
And 450hp on tap with a stock TPI Intake.
Wow, that isn't a contradiction...
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Steven Snyder Member
Posts: 3323 From: Los Angeles, CA Registered: Mar 2004
Looks interesting. That reminds me of the 89/90 coupe prototypes. I wonder what the same rear clip would look like on a car with the aero package. Whose car is that?
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Songman Member
Posts: 12496 From: Nashville, TN Registered: Aug 2000
That's an old Pisa fastback conversion kit. I'm not real crazy about it, especially since it the same amount of work to just switch over to a real fastback. I guess back when they were selling these though people didn't really do that as much.
I don't think the fastback with notchie lights looks that bad. I don't really care for the purple pavement eater though. Way too much wing for my tastes. Same with jimmybpei's car, the wing is a little over the top. Otherwise, a notchie looks good with the GT taillights.
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pokeyfiero Member
Posts: 16189 From: Free America! Registered: Dec 2003
Before I had done anything except install a new crank trigger and charged the battery. Not a bad little car. I tried to sell it for 700 bucks and ended up selling it for payments but the payments didn't come so I ended up with the car again.
What it looks like now
I have more pics in next window.
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pokeyfiero Member
Posts: 16189 From: Free America! Registered: Dec 2003
honestly i think the fastback tail lights on a notchy look hideous. easily the ugliest "stock" conversion i've seen. i like the tail lights better, they look newer, but on the notchback it just emphasizes the ugliest part of the fiero in my opinion
I just don't understand why you have to be a jackass on any and every engine modification if it isn't a 3.4 DOHC. Face it, not everyone likes those motors, they are known for breaking easily, and you don't have to compare it to everything else. It seems like you HATE 350's, especially the TPI, and LS1 motors....
Think before you post... For the love of god, please!
Edit - Some people actually like pushrod motors... Thats great that you hate them so much, but until you actually have finished a DOHC swap, with your horsepower expectations, you don't have to critize everyone. If you can actually get 400 hp out of the dohc you don't actually have then more power to yeah!
I really don't mean to be harsh, but you are really starting to get on my nerves...
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Capt Fiero Member
Posts: 7657 From: British Columbia, Canada Registered: Feb 2000
honestly i think the fastback tail lights on a notchy look hideous. easily the ugliest "stock" conversion i've seen. i like the tail lights better, they look newer, but on the notchback it just emphasizes the ugliest part of the fiero in my opinion
Honestly I think the fastback tail lights on a notchy look hideous. Easily the ugliest "stock" conversion I've seen. I like the tail lights better, they look newer, but on the notchback it just emphasizes the ugliest part of the Fiero in my opinion.
I really love the SE look but the tail lights always bugged me. They always seemed so chevett or just cheap. I love fastbacks too but the SE has a more racey look and the GT lights don't look cheap I think it makes it have a more I'm a real sports car look. So I really like the results.
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AaronZ34 Member
Posts: 2322 From: Colorado Springs, CO Registered: Oct 2004
Originally posted by Custom2M4: I just don't understand why you have to be a jackass on any and every engine modification if it isn't a 3.4 DOHC. Face it, not everyone likes those motors, they are known for breaking easily, and you don't have to compare it to everything else. It seems like you HATE 350's, especially the TPI, and LS1 motors....
Think before you post... For the love of god, please!
Edit - Some people actually like pushrod motors... Thats great that you hate them so much, but until you actually have finished a DOHC swap, with your horsepower expectations, you don't have to critize everyone. If you can actually get 400 hp out of the dohc you don't actually have then more power to yeah!
I really don't mean to be harsh, but you are really starting to get on my nerves...
That is not at all being a jackass. And I don't diss every non 3.4 engine, but when people swap a L98 and claim 400+hp, it gets on my nerves. I really enjoy driving the LSX series small blocks, great motors. And since you are obviously too unknowledged to know, I build small blocks, and enjoy a lot about them. My current project is a blown/supercharged 406cuin small block. It's running pretty good, and I will be upgrading it over the next year to AFR heads, a Comp Cam better suited to boost, and hopefully a Whipple 3300R or Weind 25X series, but not like you'd know any of this, I mean just because I understnad the DOHC supiority in air flow means I must hate everything to do with pushrods right?
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pokeyfiero Member
Posts: 16189 From: Free America! Registered: Dec 2003
So this car started life as a 88 base coupe. No power, no nothing. I put in the GT dash and gages along with the center console gages GT steering wheel and Cruise control column. Also changed out most of the wiring harness installed power locks and windows and power mirrors.Changed out rear wiring harness for GT lights and the cruise control which also added the trunk courtesy light. Headlights motors have been redone with newer material so they go up and down nice. Oh and I also added the air conditioning. The car an existing system but it was incomplete and just a mess so I transplanted the GT system in and it works great. It is just a four cyl car don't let the dual exhaust fool you but it sounds good and gets 35 mpg on freeway trips. The front is lowered a little more than an inch and a half and the rear will be lowered as soon as I have time.
Problems I have not figured out yet are that the brake lights don't work with the new harness. The third brake light does so I think the problem may be fixable in the junction connection on right side of engine bay. I plan on getting the tester in there and maybe rearranging the terminals to make it work.
Another problem I have is SMOG!! It passes with point .oo2 co almost perfectly clean but the NOx is through the roof. I have a new cat and I changed the EGR out so I think it may be clogged in the manifold.
I plan on moving the battery to the front on the left side and a sub woofer on the right side tubed into the cab under the heater and installing a little lower radiator scoop underneath and radiator exhaust vent on the hood. I was think of using a power window motor set on a relay to open when the fan come on. Been playing with the idea of making it a targa top too. The interior will slowly change to black and red. Black carpet,black and red seats and so on. I have a nice paint idea for the exterior.Keeping the experimental two tone and adding some checkered pattern to the front nose up the hood just a bit and then again on the very rear and the wing. I'm going to inlist the help of an artist I know for that. I think it was Steve Snyder at the Coast Run that gave me the idea but I'm not sure. Either way I won't put a nice paint job on it until the body is done and maybe even after I put in the new engine. Sticking with a four cyl for the economy and it makes it more fun on the coast run. I don't need to be able to go any faster.
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doublec4 Member
Posts: 8289 From: Oakville, Ontario, Canada Registered: Jun 2003
I think I recall talking about the checkerboard pattern when we were stopped waiting for the rest of the group out on hwy 1.. Can't remember exactly what it was though. Here's a photoshop of the car in two-tone with the GFX painted black too.
Wow, pokey, thanks for the pics. Man, I dunno what to think. I like those lights so much better, but it almost looks kinda awkward on the notchback. Maybe because I'm not used to it. With the notchback, I'm conditioned to seeing the slanted rear end and slanted lights. With the fastback lights, they end up being perfectly vertical, almost like the car was chopped off, rather than sloping back like the stock notchie lights do..
Its certainly different, lol
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AaronZ34 Member
Posts: 2322 From: Colorado Springs, CO Registered: Oct 2004
Wow, pokey, thanks for the pics. Man, I dunno what to think. I like those lights so much better, but it almost looks kinda awkward on the notchback. Maybe because I'm not used to it. With the notchback, I'm conditioned to seeing the slanted rear end and slanted lights. With the fastback lights, they end up being perfectly vertical, almost like the car was chopped off, rather than sloping back like the stock notchie lights do..
Its certainly different, lol
I agree, but I have to respect the work that goes into it. I am also not a fan of the 2-tone paint job, but if he likes it, that is what counts!
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Indyellowgt Member
Posts: 1950 From: Alfred,Maine,Fiero Country,USA Registered: Dec 2000
Nice job,Pokey..The jury is still out on the look,I can't quite decide. I actually like the look of a stock notchie(as well as a fastback),soo...
BTW,At least the Pavement eater actually had the swap DONE..as completed.you know..in the fiero....to actually get HP results....
Yeah I don't know much about pavement eater but this car is not going to get a swap. I find most cars have more horse power than driver. Going to build a very strong almost stock 2.5 for it. Just plan on lightening up the rotational mass a bit and making sure every thing balances out the same. Deck it and line hone. Slight cam for a little torque but don't want it to idle bad or have smog problems. Basically I would rather make a bullet proof little banger that will put up with abuse and drive everyday. If something breaks then no tears cause thats what it is made for. I want this as my work horse/experiment and have fun with car. I sure as hell wouldn't tear into my 3.4 GT.
So power is not the goal actually the whole reason behind this car is to be underpowered. I tend to take everything way past the limit and out here we have the Rally through the Valley which is a very dangerous run but most likely survivable in case of accident if you call being a paraplegic survivable and also we have the most likely unsurvivable Coast Run which at best you will have a nice view of the ocean from 300 feet and closing till you die. So I don't want more power I want a more drivable car that I can totally count on to do what I want when I want it. I can keep up with the big boys just fine and still get back alive to laugh about how stupid we are now and I would like to keep it that way.
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