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Julian
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MAY 13, 02:43 PM
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Sage
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MAY 13, 05:39 PM
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Gorgeous! 
Can't help with the laptop....I don't even own a "smartphone"! 
That's a great looking car...not to mention a stellar example of an original Mera.
HAGO!
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Julian
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MAY 14, 08:09 AM
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Thanks Sage. I tried my best to keep it original with a few personal modifications. I went up a size for my wheels so they will fill the wheel well much better. I also like the DeTomaso look with the raised white letters. The interior was the drab gray cloth seats with the matching light gray carpet. I went with black carpet & head liner and two tone black-gray custom leather seats. I also hated the automatic T shift handle so I replaced it with the Grand AM cobra leather handle. I added the Nardi leather wrapped steering wheel and tinted the windows. Yellow matching MOMO pedals. I also added the factory sub woofer and map light with bass slide control. I have the Mera aftermarket nameplate on the engine cover and am currently missing one wheel center cap. I had all the body panels off when I had it repainted and tried my best to match the color. The power mirrors were replaced with similar non-powered ones.
Future plans are to replace the pins and bushings in both doors (rattle a bit), clean them raised white letters (grrrr), upgrade the stereo and speaker (keep the originals aside), replace both power window motors (slow as molasses), need new weather stripping in the rear trunk, add European sounding horn, recharge A/C and see why my rear suspension squeaks like a bunch of seagulls following me when I hit a bump.
I also want o replace my rear whirring harness so my lights work more like they should. I think the Formula harness was different than the GT. Currently when I tap brakes all 4 lights come on (including the ambers).
So there you have it....my update on #8071
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Julian - MERA #8071[This message has been edited by Julian (edited 05-14-2019).]
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Rexgirl
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MAY 14, 08:35 PM
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The good news is that you may be able to do a simple modification to your existing wiring harness to make your rear brake lights work properly. From my post #5950 on page 149 this thread:
"To disable the brake switch from activating the rear orange (outside) turn lights on a Fiero SE based Mera, do the following: Locate the C500 wiring connector mounted on the inside of the 'frame' rail just behind the battery and just in front of the strut tower structure. It has two multi-wire plugs; a front plug for the rear lights and the other is for the engine. Look at the front plug and you should see a LOOP of white wire that sticks out about three inches. Cut that looped wire and cover the cut ends with electrical tape. If you press the brake pedal now, you should see one half of each red tail light glow and the high mounted brake light (in the rear window) illuminate, but not the orange (turn) tail lights. The Parking/headlight switch should cause the other bulb in the red tail light to glow. The rear orange turn lamps should flash both bulbs in the selected housing when you use the turn signal."
There is also an associated picture in the next post..
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Larryinkc
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MAY 16, 09:43 PM
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My Mera was a Formula also, same issue with the tail lights. My tail light housings were distorted from bulb heat bad enough that the sockets wouldn't stay in them. I used some C4 Corvette tail light housings to repair them and the C4 sockets also. I cut the white loop wire and connected the C4 sockets to the existing Fiero harness. I wired the amber lens bulbs in each socket in parallel so both of the bright/high filaments are the turn signals and wired the red lens bulbs in each socket in parallel also so both the standard/low filaments are tail lights and both bright/high filaments are brake lights. I used Plasma LED bulbs from West Coast Classic Cougar and they work great and are very bright. The amber lights only illuminate as turn signals and the red lights are tail and brake lights. If your housings are good just re-wire the existing sockets to make all the bulbs function correctly.
https://secure.cougarpartsc...rms=C7W%201157%20led
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Larryinkc
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MAY 31, 02:23 PM
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steve308
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MAY 31, 08:47 PM
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East Coast MERA owners and 308/328 kit owners...… How come there are only two FIERO rebodies registered for the 25th anniversary of the MAFOA at Carlisle in June?
Close to 65 FIEROS are preregistered for the event. Bring them out![This message has been edited by steve308 (edited 06-07-2019).]
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hnthomps
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JUN 01, 05:04 PM
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My only issue is a 1200 mile trip with a spouse that may or may not want to travel very much. It changes from day to day so I would need to evaluate everything at the last minute. If I went to Carlisle, are there provisions for car trailer storage at either the meet site or hotel?
Nelson
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steve308
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JUN 01, 06:28 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by hnthomps:
My only issue is a 1200 mile trip with a spouse that may or may not want to travel very much. It changes from day to day so I would need to evaluate everything at the last minute. If I went to Carlisle, are there provisions for car trailer storage at either the meet site or hotel?
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Carlisle does have trailer parking but I'm not sure what's involved. The motel that I am staying at along with a number of MAFOA travelers (Quality Inn North Carlisle) has plenty of parking and there were a number of trailers in the lot last year.
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solotwo
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JUN 01, 09:14 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by hnthomps:
My only issue is a 1200 mile trip with a spouse that may or may not want to travel very much. It changes from day to day so I would need to evaluate everything at the last minute. If I went to Carlisle, are there provisions for car trailer storage at either the meet site or hotel?
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I understand the spouse part! LOL
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