Hmmm, when I was playing with the sensor, the only part that brought the temp reading up and down was when I would hold the very 'tip' in my palm. Because of that I was figuring only the very tip of the sensor that clips into the hole I drilled into the front bumper cavity directly in front of the headlight assembly was the only part that needed to be in front of the rad and not affected by the fan... I honestly haven't driven the car too much since I put it in to even see how it's reading. Thankfully I left slack on the wire to move it if needed. Thanks for the feedback!

Edit 2020: Yeah I have to relocate the sensor, putting the sensor there does cause the thermometer to pick up some radiant heat from the radiator.

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It's been over a year since I posted anything in this thread, though that doesn't mean I stopped working and making plans for my car!

First off, and coolest of all... my swap. It's happening finally. If you've been keeping up with this thread over the last few years you'll know that I have a 4.9 and accumulated almost all the swap-parts needed to install in this thing. WELL.... like most things in life, plans change. As nice as the 4.9 would be together with the Allante intake, and other supporting mods, I thought long and hard about where that would leave me at the end of the day, and I began to question it heavily. At this point and where I'm at in my life, I want to make this car not only "good enough", but INSANE. It didn't take long to come to a decision and so made a few phone calls, since what I decided upon is well above my skill level...

I put a deposit down a few weeks ago to have Gary from Pickardt Performance to do an LS4/F40 swap!!! He's already building my engine and has the transmission. I will get into what's going into the LS4 build when it starts coming together.

Check out Gary and his son's operation and all their builds on Facebook by the way, here

At any rate, since April of 2019 I have done/installed the following:

• Champion three core radiator (Champion CC828), new coolant hoses
  
• A TON of AC work (black death 😖)
  
• Steering column blinker cam and cancel springs replacement
  
• Brakes refresher, parking brake
  
• Replaced a bunch of failed LED light bulbs

Here's some pics and stuff of the shenanigans I've been up to:

Champion radiator:

The plastic part of my radiator decided to crack, so I decided to upgrade to a three core Champion unit with new radiator hoses from Rodney while I was there. Works great.


You can see how much FATTER the three core radiator is!


Air cooled Fiero? Would never work!


Some light modifications were needed to be made to the rubber feet and the top support to fit the wider radiator.



Like a glove!




AC STUFF:

I wound up getting black death. Great. I went through the entire system; what a nightmare, I removed and flushed every pipe out individually with AC flush in both directions until no more crap was coming out, I changed the O rings everywhere to the green ones (whoever did the conversion before me didn't do this), also I replaced the evaporator, condensor since they aren't very flushable and didn't want to take any chances. Installed with a fresh, factory oriface tube too, of course!









Blinker fix:

Random things tend to brake on old cars, the left blinker stopped canceling, so I took the column down to the blinker mechanisim and replaced a broken spring (replaced both springs) and threw a new cancel cam in while I was there. Nothing crazy to see here, honestly.



Brakes refresh:

On a sunday cruise, the car started pulling hard to the right, so after a some troubleshooting I found the driver side rear caliper had a frozen piston, as well as frozen front caliper slider pins also on the driver side. Since rear calipers for 88s are made of unobtainium, and I had a passenger side rear sitting in my shed from when I did the brakes origionally (I never sent the core back, oops) I decided I might as well send a pair calipers out to get rebuilt (Phoenix Caliper, highly reccommended, they are awesome to deal with) at the same time... One to install, and one as a spare for passenger side to have hanging around (wound up being a good idea). Since by this point the swap was put into motion. I figured it would also be good time to put Yellowstuff pads in the front, as well to be able to have some better stopping power to handle the massive horsepower upgrade that is coming. I also installed a new master cylinder for good measure. DOT 4 brake fluid by Pentosin.

I took care the trouble in the front left caliiper myself, gave some love and greased up the sliders on the passenger side front too of course, no pics of that... but here are some pics of the rears before and after the rebuild. Don't mind the dirty caliper bridges, those weren't the red ones I had on the car I put gross spare ones on that I had in my shed. Red bridges re-installed before going back on the car. They are going to need to be re-painted next year, the red paint is starting to show it's age.

Old:




Rebuilt:




It was a good thing I had a passenger side rebuilt too. It wound up that after I removed the parking brake lever and clamped down the piston on old the passenger side rear, it didn't want to re-adjust anymore. No harm done, installed the fresh one.

Yellowstuff pads in the box. New set of slotted rotors too. These are quite literally race spec pads to be ready for the more horsepower that comes with the LS... The car has SO MUCH BETTER braking distance with these, and they get better with more heat in them. Worlds of a difference to the improvement with these pads.



New master cylinder installed too, here it is looking pretty before I installed it with Pentosin DOT4 flushed through the entire system:




Parking brake:

It's been seven years and countless projects at this point; after all this I never had a working parking brake! I decided with the rears getting overhauled, I would finally change that. I got a new equilizer since the adjusting bolt was missing, as well as a new driver side cable, which never existed since I bought this thing. New springs from the Fiero Store too. It's amazing to have a parking brake, (no more leaving it in 1st or reverse!) I adjusted it according to the TSB, and it holds strong with five clicks of the mechanism.


That's all for now! Thanks for reading so far, I know it's kind of a boring thread, as this is honestly more of a work performed log than a build at this point; there will be more to come as things happen, including the swap, even though it turns out I won't be doing it myself, I told Gary I want a lot of pictures of the build! I will definately post them here.

I love this thing so much... I'm having so much fun wrenching on this thing.
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" THE BLACK PARALYZER" -87GT 3800SC Series III engine, custom ZZP /Frozen Boost Intercooler setup, 3.4" Pulley, Northstar TB, LS1 MAF, 3" Spintech/Hedman Exhaust, P-log Manifold, Autolite 104's, MSD wires, Custom CAI, 4T65eHD w. custom axles, Champion Radiator, S10 Brake Booster, HP Tuners VCM Suite.
"THE COLUSSUS"
87GT - ALL OUT 3.4L Turbocharged engine, Garrett Hybrid Turbo, MSD ign., modified TH125H
" ON THE LOOSE WITHOUT THE JUICE "

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Red 1988 GT under restoration!

Let's Go Mets!

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" THE BLACK PARALYZER" -87GT 3800SC Series III engine, custom ZZP /Frozen Boost Intercooler setup, 3.4" Pulley, Northstar TB, LS1 MAF, 3" Spintech/Hedman Exhaust, P-log Manifold, Autolite 104's, MSD wires, Custom CAI, 4T65eHD w. custom axles, Champion Radiator, S10 Brake Booster, HP Tuners VCM Suite.
"THE COLUSSUS"
87GT - ALL OUT 3.4L Turbocharged engine, Garrett Hybrid Turbo, MSD ign., modified TH125H
" ON THE LOOSE WITHOUT THE JUICE "

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