A History of the Blue Demon (Page 7/17)
Fierochic88 NOV 08, 06:23 PM
So the story continues (finally!) It is crazy trying to remember some of this after 11 years (wow, now I am feeling old!!) but I will do my best. Of course, I may have to get Dad to make a guest appearance to fill in some of the details, but the next part I do remember pretty clearly.

As you may recall, when we got the car running by overriding the faulty fuel pump, it ended up having a rod knock. Through the years of "dealing with" Fieros, we had seen more than one 2.8L with a bad #5 bearing...of course this engine would be no different. I have my dad searching for pictures of the actual bearings out of the block, but here are some photos to hold you over in the meantime!





And one of my dad's favorites...this was the look I gave him when he jokingly accused me of breaking the car....amusing since I had never actually driven it ;-)
Fierochic88 NOV 08, 06:26 PM

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Originally posted by x-thumpr-x:

Nice to see a familar face, guess I better start showing mine again Hope to see you, Matt & family next summer at the 30th. I miss going down to Carlisle, had a great time when it was with the Import / kitcar show & the party afterwards was always memorable.

(insert both hands out asking for more beer here)



4 more beers! :-) We are looking forward to seeing you guys too!!
Fierochic88 NOV 22, 01:21 PM
Dad brought down some CDs with old pictures on and we've spent the last hour or so reminiscing about Fiero days gone by. Some of the show pictures dated all the way back to our first national Fiero show in Columbus in 2000. I hope to post some of the pics of the cars of the past, some of which were pretty neat.

Although this picture below is from the front compartment section of the "rebuild", I missed it during that portion of this thread and Dad brought it along. It is definitely good for a laugh. At least kslish was looking at the camera!



While taking off the pan, we were sure to continue to take shots of wires. Thank goodness for dad's foresight on this end. Seemingly small paths for wires could have been problematic had we not documented them as well as we did.



We also wanted to be sure to take a close up of the water-pipe, as this would also be replaced during the build.
Fierochic88 NOV 23, 10:35 AM
We also wanted to be sure we knew where this small bracket went. Although this wasn't our first rodeo, it was definitely going to be the most involved (at that point in time). I got to hold the camera and Dad did the pointing.



Missed this photo in the post above too!



While Dad was working to finish disassembling the engine, I began working on the subframe. This is what we started with:



Struts off:
FieroLisa NOV 23, 11:49 AM
I just read through this whole thread and now I miss my Fiero!! I wonder if mine is still floating around anywhere...?
Fierochic88 NOV 23, 04:35 PM

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Originally posted by FieroLisa:

I just read through this whole thread and now I miss my Fiero!! I wonder if mine is still floating around anywhere...?



I bet it is...did you sell it in Ohio or California?
Jncomutt NOV 23, 04:47 PM
whoa, did this post just prove time travel exists? What is the current year?
FieroLisa NOV 23, 09:13 PM
I sold it right before I moved to Cali (spring 2005), to some guy who I think lived in Chicago...

and speaking of time travel, where are those old pics Jen???

[This message has been edited by FieroLisa (edited 11-23-2012).]

AkursedX NOV 23, 09:15 PM

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Originally posted by Jncomutt:

whoa, did this post just prove time travel exists? What is the current year?



lol! No doubt!

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Dennis LaGrua NOV 23, 10:43 PM
I was wondering what happened to you as you haven't been at Carlisle in several years. Glad that everything is going well. It seems that many of the faces of this hobby are still enjoying their Fieros. Some disappear for a while but many have come back. Great to see you active again. We seem to have quite a few hobbiets that have become active on the forum again and its good time to rejoin the great folks in the Fiero community. IIRC the Blue Demon was a sharp looking car. Does your sis Jamie still have her orange Fiero?

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