I thought I would show you some of the difference in weights of the new parts I have so far.

You can see the new longer Scat rod is almost 63 grams less than the stock rod. The new one will be lighter after I thin the big end to fit the crank.



And almost 70 grams savings for the Wisco piston over the stock ones including pins and rings



The Dell West titanium intake valves are lager and more than 31 grams lighter. This is a critical place to increase rpm's safely.

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Sincerely
George

[This message has been edited by fierogt4e (edited 10-30-2016).]

Just a little update for spring.

A few weeks ago mother nature gave me one last (I hope) kick to the pants. The garage is hard to warm up when is like this outside.


This week the snow is gone and it's been warm, but I decided to take my old friend out for the first ride of the year and not hide in the shop on Sunday. The only day I can spend in my shop.


I bought this tig welder for my shop. It's a little on on the low end but I think it will be good for hobby use along side my old mig. I have yet to get the tank and some supplies.


So it maybe a month or two before I get back to the Fiero for this year. Updates will be coming soon.

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Sincerely
George

You can see the bottom half of the small tube that runs from the throttle body flange half the way thru the the upper 3500 plenum. Its too small and long for my needs I think. I milled it all away. This big opening will be closed with 1/8” aluminum sheet.
You may also see the six port openings have been enlarged to the full size of the gasket. I will roll the edge later, when cleaning up the welds.


What is this __ doing now? I intend to enlarge the oil pan into the space the exhaust would use. I am leaving that area with the three holes as a dam to help control oil sloshing away from the pickup. I intend to make one-way doors to help by closing off the holes. This oil pan is from an uplander (?) and not the G6,and dose not have the recess for the filter. A little more room there to.



This is one of the 6 1/8” long rods I'm using. The big end I narrowed in a lathe to fit the 3.9 crank. Here I am cutting the chamfers on the bearing to clear the radius on the crank. It needs to be done on both sides of each one. I only did one rod and one bearing as it is a learning effort for me and I may change the way I do some of it for the six I will use in the motor.


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Sincerely
George

https://www.youtube.com/cha...oJ3CMtWvgEok8R-n3XRg

[This message has been edited by fierogt4e (edited 04-30-2017).]

Looking good, I modified my 3500 intake similar to how I think you are doing you

here you can see the finished product, with a 75mm LS1 throttle body installed.



Edit:

LOL, posted the same pics twice in one thread... oops...

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[This message has been edited by ericjon262 (edited 05-01-2017).]

[This message has been edited by slowv8fiero (edited 05-29-2017).]

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Sincerely
George

https://www.youtube.com/cha...oJ3CMtWvgEok8R-n3XRg