Project 3400 Roller Cam Block (Page 5/82)
lou_dias JAN 06, 03:36 PM
Laywers lawyers lawyers...
I'm about to put money in escrow pending the outcome of the case so that they release the car so that I can get it inspected (and finished) by another mechanic.

Atleast I hope to have the car out of this crook's hands by the end of the month.
perry rhodan JAN 28, 07:34 PM
Best of luck Lou...hope to read progress on the project soon.
lou_dias JAN 29, 07:50 AM
Well I thought I'd have the car in my possession now but the mechanic's lawyer has yet to respond too how much money I need to put in escrow for release.

Damn Lawyers!
goatnipples2002 JAN 30, 03:21 AM
good luck man

[This message has been edited by goatnipples2002 (edited 01-30-2007).]

88 Silver Formula APR 23, 08:34 PM
sucks man!! any updates???, dude me and you are in sooo the same boat!!! (except i used different pushrods), i should send you a pm insteed of posting my rant here but u said u like open sugestions lol., im being 100% open minded here but i have some concerns/questions, about your heads, thoes are 2.8 fiero heads i assume? what springs did you use? stock valves?, and you do know that porting the intake ports can hurt power output?..acually the exaust also, your soposed to port where the valve head touches..not nessassarly the acually in and out ports...but again il take in and im wondering if that will work out for you?, i choose not to port my heads..no point when the lower intake is that restrictive (its not the upper like 100% of people think)(i will explane if asked), and i also used 1.6 rockers..just not rollor..3.1Liter ones, same everything else as you tho..oh and the proper length pushrod is 5.98inches...not 5.85....but honestly either will work fine depending on rockers..i used 6 inch push rods cause im using stock rockers, alluminm as urs and fierosound are slightly bigger so 5.85 is needed to clear the valve cover..so no worries there..btw dont listen to fireosound....ive learned that the hard way, oh and dont use 19lb injectors..you will most difinatly run rich even wot...unles you reprogram the cpu..im running 17lb (95 3.4 camaro) and it will still run rich at idle, btw im using a 2004 alero 3400, 10k miles and i was forced into buying a new oilpan so its shiney lol (no sensor is nice too) but yeah how much did the first guy estamate cost??? did you bring him a completed short block or did he buid it from scratch???? i brought my mechanic a completed short block including heads and he said 1100$ will do it.....but that was before we got into an arguement and found out that there was A L O T of drilling, hellacooling, timeserting, welding, grinding that fierosound D I D N O T mention!!! so yes my mech is pissed!!! so had telling what the $$$ is up to know..thanks fierosound!!!
lou_dias MAY 04, 02:49 PM
Well last week my lawyer said they were going to release the car to me this week. It's Friday, I've heard nothing.

I found another mechanic willing to undertake the job once I do get it back.
In the meantime, I've lived Fiero-less long enough and I bought Voytek's Fiero. It should arrive from Canada in a few weeks. The paperwork was a biz-nitch. Shipping was expensive... Now I'll have 2 Fiero's again. I've owned 2 Fieros concurrently most of the time I've owned Fieros.

Voytek's former Fiero: http://www.fiero.nl/forum/Forum4/HTML/036880.html
lou_dias JUN 07, 03:15 PM

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Originally posted by 88 Silver Formula:

..no point when the lower intake is that restrictive (its not the upper like 100% of people think)(i will explane if asked



I'm asking.
When I did my first rebuild years ago, Joe Wynnman told me the the lower intake had the biggest restriction. In retrospect, I find this hard to believe but I had mine "ported to hell" and slightly polished as well. Could you explain why you think the lower intake is so restrictive...?
Hudini JUN 07, 05:33 PM
Personally, I think the lower intake has restrictions. I say that because I measured each runner versus the middle and upper intake. The smallest part of the 3 intake's runners is right where the fuel injector sits. Their is a slight dip in the runner to compensate but still not enough. Here is a picture:
88 Silver Formula JUN 07, 09:23 PM
yeah thats pretty much it...so whats the update??? is it rotting in your back yard? did you find another mech?..mines running (as you prolly know) cost me a total of 3,500 dallars. parts labor (i built the short block)...and mine ticks...hope you have better luck...i still dont know what my tic is but im hopeing its a lifter..its my DD tho so il probly never have a second to find out...got my ac workng 3 days ago..blows cold and the 3400 doesnt lack power from it like the pos 2.8 did. UPDATES MAN! lol
Will JUN 08, 06:08 AM

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Originally posted by Hudini:

Personally, I think the lower intake has restrictions. I say that because I measured each runner versus the middle and upper intake. The smallest part of the 3 intake's runners is right where the fuel injector sits. Their is a slight dip in the runner to compensate but still not enough. Here is a picture:




Intake runner taper is a good thing. Did you compare to the port size in the cylinder head?
GM probably wanted to get high velocity at the injector to improve atomization at low throttle.

I'm perplexed by taking height out of the interface between the middle and upper manifolds... that just makes the attrocious 135 degree bend the air has to go through that much tighter.