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'87 Fiero GT. 3800 turbo. Sticky tyres. Driven hard!

Hi everyone,
Been a while since I updated.
Finaly got round to putting the battery up front:


I did some other stuff like change the cam sensor + magnet, adjust the camber allround (slotted upper arms on the front etc...) plus a bunch of other little things that I couldn't be bothered to photographe!


However, I have been using the car quite alot for shows, trackdays and (quite rare in my part of France) my first 2 day drag race!
I havn't done a drag race in over 10 years, and the last time was at Santa Pod where L only made 2 runs, with not very good times!
This time, it was nearly "no limits" - you could run just about every 10minites if you lined up after each pass.
Here is a picture of the Fiero just in front of a rocket car (I'm driving through the paddock):


So what you really want to know is "how quick I went?" Well faster off the line than your BMW M3, that's for sure:


In fact, I consistantly ran very low 13's, and pretty much smashed most of the other cars there!
Apart from one Civic type R with all the expensive goodies. He would catch up about halfway through and fly past at 10mph faster than me at the 1/4 mile. He cooked his clutch however trying to hold the power at 25/30+psi!!
Here is a photo mashup with my best time:


Yes! 12.994!

Last picture for this post - going back very happy!


Best regards,
Rafe
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'87 Fiero GT. 3800 turbo. Sticky tyres. Driven hard!

[This message has been edited by Frenchrafe (edited 07-11-2019).]

Hello everyone and Merry Christmas Holidays!
Just a few photos and words concerning a little mod that I have done recently.

I have fitted a small extractor fan to help exit the heat in the engine bay and help cool my coil packs.
I know this has been done loads of times before me, but I just like to share my setup which was inspired from my summertime experiences at the only drag race in western France this year.

While lined up for the start I was behind this BMW engine powered Opel, and I remarked how his cooling fans were constantly on, even at idle:



Now certainly his car was a fully race prepped car and the fans were on a separate switched circuit. But it got me thinking how to do this without hacking the Fiero circuits to bits and adding too many switches in the cabin etc...

My solution was to use two relays and the existing trunk fan circuit.
Here's my super circuit diagram:
(Sorry, no computer aided drawing!)



Basically, I just take the trunk fan switching via the PCM or whatever and add a fuse and another power relay to run the fan.
However, I wanted to go one step further to "force" this fan and the others (main cooling fan, my oil cooler fan) to run constantly if I wanted at a race day. But I still wanted "normal" functionning just when driving on the road.
Now because the trunk fan circuit is negative switching and when the car is turned off, the switching is contantly grounded, it needed a second relay and a couple of switches.
In effect, I can choose to run this engine compartment fan with the others or not at all. But the best thing is that I can force all the fans to run constantly with the flick of a switch.
(If you ground the green/white wire of the trunk fan circuit, the main cooling fan switches on.)
I've kept the switches in the engine compartment so that I don't forget to switch back to "normal" mode after the race while I'm checking under the decklid for oïl leaks, coolant blowouts, turbo disintergration, thrown rods etc...Ha Ha!. And to keep all the wiring extras just by the new fan in case I need to unplug my mess in a hurry without having to rip open my dashboard on the side of the road.

Here is the system fonctionning (grill removed for the photo):



The switches:



Now just a last photo of an end of summer meeting in order to keep our spirits up during the winter.

(And yes I'm more low to the ground than the Porsche!)

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year,
Rafe

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'87 Fiero GT. 3800 turbo. Sticky tyres. Driven hard!

[This message has been edited by Frenchrafe (edited 12-19-2019).]

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"I am not what you so glibly call to be a civilized man. I have broken with society for reasons which I alone am able to appreciate. I am therefore not subject to it's stupid laws, and I ask you to never allude to them in my presence again."

"The day I tried to live, I stole a thousand beggars' change and gave it to the rich."
http://www.fiero.nl/forum/Forum2/HTML/119122.html

For the flywheel, yes it probably was the aluminium that compressed. That's why I sleeved the holes and pressed and fettled out the sleeve to take up where the flywheel metal had changed shape.
Afterwards, I just put the stock bolts that have a larger head and therefore a larger contact surface. Better load spreading!
It's held together since.

For the car colour, it's two shades of metalic maserati green.
I don't remember the references, but they're colours from the 1970s. I remember seeing this kind of car when I was young:

[This message has been edited by Frenchrafe (edited 12-26-2019).]

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86 GT built 2.2 ecotec turbo
rear SLA suspension
QA1 coilovers on tube arms

quote Originally posted by wftb: What wheel/tire combo are you using? I know that info might be in here somewhere but I did not notice it. Car looks well planted in the track day pics.

Original 15" lace wheels with Toyo Proxes 225/50 up front and 235/50 on the rear.


I would like to put 235/60s on the rear to fill out the wheel well a little better, but it's hard to find 15 inch track day tyres in 60 section?
Yoko used to make some but I haven't seen them in ages (available in Europe). I might cough up the import taxes one day and order Mickey Thomson drag radials for the rear….
...one day!

Pour La Fiera: pas de problème. Je suis content que ça t'avait plu!

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'87 Fiero GT. 3800 turbo. Sticky tyres. Driven hard!

[This message has been edited by Frenchrafe (edited 12-27-2019).]