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Neils88
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FEB 23, 05:01 PM
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Great looking tranny! How rugged is that chrome paint? I'm just wondering about stone chips, road debris, oil, etc...
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Moar
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FEB 23, 05:10 PM
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The chrome paint is extremely sensitive without a protecting clear coat layer.
It is also not resistant against nitrocellulose-based acryl clear coats, only polyurethane clear coats can be used (without thinning it with Xylol)!
However, after the Glisten PC polyurethane clear coats is applied, the paint job is resistant against gasoline, oil, salt and heat resistant up to ~ 200°C.[This message has been edited by Moar (edited 02-23-2016).]
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Moar
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FEB 23, 05:13 PM
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| quote | | Just out of curiosity have you considered the 3.4 DOHC? |
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If I would live in USA I wouldn´t bother with V6 engines.
I would do a V8 swap instead (maybe Cadillac 4.9 V8).
Here in Austria, things are completely different.
Engine swaps are uncommon here. When an engine dies the car goes to the next junk yard and the owner buys a new one.
People who work on engines are not normal here.
Furthermore, EVERY modification on a car needs to be legalized by the state inspection which cost several $100 for each part.
Besides that, it is almost impossible to legalize non Europe parts in Austria or Germany!
If I want to legalize an engine which was never used in a Fiero from the factory, the emission certificate will cost about $3000!!!
I´ll definitely not got this way and I will not spend hundreds or even thousands of $$$$ for legalization (just paper stuff).
Therefore, the only alternative is to get a bigger engine which looks like stock
-> the 3.4L pushrod engine.
I know I can´t get much power out of it with a Fiero intake plenum, but I need
it in order to retain the stock look... Maybe nitrous juice will help?
PS:
At the beginning I have also thought about buying a 4-banger Fiero and to swap a V8 engine into it.
I thought if I have luck, the cops may think it´s just the stock 4-cylinder Iron Duke when
they only see 4 ignition wires of one cylinder bank at the first glance...  [This message has been edited by Moar (edited 02-23-2016).]
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Raydar
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FEB 23, 09:00 PM
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Moar
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FEB 24, 01:04 AM
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These Dawg's performance parts seem to be quite interesting.
However, the prices are a bit on the high side and there are no flow bench test results or dyno runs available for the modified UIM.
I´ll take this intake plenum modification into consideration and will try to make one by my own as soon as I find time.
I hope that also a 3.4L engine can breathe sufficiently with this mod.
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Moar
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FEB 29, 10:36 AM
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Does someone know why some of my pictures are not shown correctly?
Maybe the resolution is too high?
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Gall757
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FEB 29, 10:51 AM
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The images that don't show are over 300K in total size. The horizontal pixel count is 1024 or less, which is what is needed, but the vertical dimension is too long. You can look it up by right-clicking on the picture, "view image info". [This message has been edited by Gall757 (edited 02-29-2016).]
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hobbywrench
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FEB 29, 12:03 PM
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Moar, I know you know how to trim picture size with paint function? Anyway ,if I know it almost everyone must know it. Depending upon the forum I have had to trim pictures to post.
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Moar
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FEB 29, 03:47 PM
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| quote | | Moar, I know you know how to trim picture size with paint function? |
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Yes, of course!
I will resize or trim my pictures as soon as I have time.
Now I´m thinking about the driveshaft problem and how I should cut the groove in it.
Obviously it is an extremely hard steel (I think quenched and tempered steel)?
I tried to cut a groove with my dremel and I could just scratch the surface with the diamond grinding bit!
If I use the angle grinder instead I can only keep an axial position tolerances of about +/- 1/2 mm which is maybe too inaccurate.
It would be really interesting which kind of steel this is.
There are very high stresses in the spline shaft (max. static torque is somewhere in the neighborhood of 1100 Nm per driveshaft before the wheel begins to spin).
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2.5
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FEB 29, 03:51 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by Moar:
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Furthermore, EVERY modification on a car needs to be legalized by the state inspection which cost several $100 for each part.
Besides that, it is almost impossible to legalize non Europe parts in Austria or Germany!
If I want to legalize an engine which was never used in a Fiero from the factory, the emission certificate will cost about $3000!!!
I´ll definitely not got this way and I will not spend hundreds or even thousands of $$$$ for legalization (just paper stuff).
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I hope it never comes to that here, but we are headed that way slowly. Sounds similar to what SEMA is fighting with right now in beginning stages.
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