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copperhens
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MAY 12, 06:48 PM
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quote | Originally posted by BadNewsBrendan:
Awesome seeing so many fieros at random car shows and parades. The chickens standing on your car crack me up and so does the FLAMBLE licence plate  |
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Thank you!
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copperhens
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MAY 26, 05:07 PM
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My little black Fiero goes back on the insurance tomorrow.

I bought TFS premium quarter windows for it... I'm not 100% impressed. Time will tell. I don't have a picture of the new sails for some reason. They are on but keep unsticking from the tape.

I also cleaned 30 years of crap off the exhaust tips. Here is a before and after(well, left side right side comparison because I forgot a before picture haha). I just got some actual alumnium polish and will work on shining these up more, as well as making the inside pretty too.

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Patrick
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MAY 26, 06:53 PM
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quote | Originally posted by copperhens:
I bought TFS premium quarter windows for it... I'm not 100% impressed. Time will tell. I don't have a picture of the new sails for some reason. They are on but keep unsticking from the tape.
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You might want to have a look at This thread.
I stuck new sail panels on my '86 GT using the correct double-sided tape and black silicone similar to the method described below. However, I used the black silicone around the entire perimeter of the sail panels (in addition to the tape). The most important area to carefully seal up is the leading edge. You don't the wind catching and lifting the front of the sail panels while you're zipping along on the freeway. Mine are never coming off. 
quote | Originally posted by IMSA GT:
What a lot of people do is just depend on the double sided tape. On any window install, I would recommend the tape plus black silicone. Here is an example. The factory panels have the leading edge directly behind the driver/passenger glass siliconed to keep air from getting under the panels at highway speed. The red lines in my picture is the tape and the blue lines is the black silicone. Note the factory remnants of silicone just behind my drivers side window:

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copperhens
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MAY 26, 10:50 PM
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quote | Originally posted by Patrick:
You might want to have a look at This thread.
I stuck new sail panels on my '86 GT using the correct double-sided tape and black silicone similar to the method described below. However, I used the black silicone around the entire perimeter of the sail panels (in addition to the tape). The most important area to carefully seal up is the leading edge. You don't the wind catching and lifting the front of the sail panels while you're zipping along on the freeway. Mine are never coming off. 
Yikes, thanks for the info! I'll definitely have to look k to securing them better. I would not be happy if I lost one. [QUOTE]Originally posted by IMSA GT:
What a lot of people do is just depend on the double sided tape. On any window install, I would recommend the tape plus black silicone. Here is an example. The factory panels have the leading edge directly behind the driver/passenger glass siliconed to keep air from getting under the panels at highway speed. The red lines in my picture is the tape and the blue lines is the black silicone. Note the factory remnants of silicone just behind my drivers side window:

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Vicophine
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MAY 27, 09:52 AM
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Wow! Read through the whole thread, some very good information in here, I love how you documented everything, it's a fantastic idea to keep a record, whether it be online or in a book (have mine in a binder) of all the work, upgrades, and modifications you have done, and this is incredibly organized!
Recognized you from my introduction post, but just wanted to let you know you gave me some good ideas for things I need to do to my Fiero, and that your car is looking phenomenal!
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copperhens
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MAY 29, 09:06 PM
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quote | Originally posted by Vicophine:
Wow! Read through the whole thread, some very good information in here, I love how you documented everything, it's a fantastic idea to keep a record, whether it be online or in a book (have mine in a binder) of all the work, upgrades, and modifications you have done, and this is incredibly organized!
Recognized you from my introduction post, but just wanted to let you know you gave me some good ideas for things I need to do to my Fiero, and that your car is looking phenomenal!  |
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Thank you! I feel bad I haven't been updating it as I should. Posting to this forum is nice because I can pretty quickly go back to see progress.
You should keep adding to your thread. It's interesting to read about other people's projects. At least yours are on paper, I get worried with websites because they may not always be permanent. I save receipts but they're pretty unorganized .
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