4.6 Northstar Swap Project (Page 7/22) copperhens MAY 26, 04:56 PM I know I have not been updating, but don;t worry because I've still been at it! Back on the 24th of February the pistons got cleaned up. Rebuilt the heads late March. New valves, and cleaned everything else up. Sand blasted the block in below freezing weather. Pistons in in May. Headstuds in on the 21st, Heads on. Cams on and the followers on today. The exhaust ones all came from the spare heads I have because the ones that were on this engine were pretty beat up. I had to order new timing stuff because the stuff was pretty worn. Also had to pull new valve covers since the ones pictured are all pitted. I'm wondering if anyone has relocated the oil fill. Currently it is on the front of the engine, and that just looks awkward in a Fiero hmm... Vicophine MAY 28, 08:23 AM Subscribing! Seeing this is giving me motivation to finally drop my V6 donor engine! Looks fantastic, and clean! copperhens MAY 29, 09:08 PM quote Originally posted by Vicophine: Subscribing! Seeing this is giving me motivation to finally drop my V6 donor engine! Looks fantastic, and clean! I have a pair or Northstar engines for sale if you ever wanna go that route too. copperhens DEC 05, 08:53 AM 6-2-19 Engine is looking clean thanks to a lot of brake clean and then high them spray paint... I didn’t have tha patience to polish the whole thing. 7-21-19 You didn’t think I’d leave the covers silver did you? My little tribute to the Fiero. 8-5-19 Valve covers secured down and intake is on. Little did I know it would be coming on and off for a while due to wiring issues. copperhens DEC 05, 09:03 AM 8-22-19 Transmission fitment. In order to fit the transmissions on the northstar if you go manual, you have to cut a notch out to accommodate the starter. I did not have to worry about this because the transmissions I have were both going to be used on a Northstar so it had already been done. The transmission in the picture is an F23. I later end up using the 5spd getrag because it is already set up in the car, and I saw someone trying to get an F23 into reverse once and it wasn’t pretty. 9-1-19 My Fiero’s headlight motors needed rebuilding. 9-20-19 The PO cut the brake lines for whatever reason, so I replaced all of them too with stainless steel. Also have the front brakes with new pads and rotors. Don’t kill me for saying it’s all stock... These upgrades I have to save up for as I can’t afford all of this stuff at once. And also let’s make sure my engine even runs! copperhens DEC 05, 09:15 AM 10-12-19 The POs painted the 5spd getrag black. I stripped it all off, cleaned it up and used some metallic spray paint. 10-27-19 Huge step. Dragged my cradle and the components from under my dad’s Jeep because it was finally time to mount the engine. When I bought my Fiero, the PO has the engine mounted, so these are custom to him. There are two chevy 4x4 mounts, a Caddy mount(rear bank), and a Fiero mount(transmission). Trying to figure out how to dangle the engine so it would fit on the cradle yet still be on the engine stand so we could roll it was tricky. And this is how the engine sits today. The wiring is on it but had since been removed. I am taking it to oljoedad to redo. I wanted to figure it out myself, but it is beyond me and my dad’s knowledge. The harness if for a ‘93 Northstar Fiero and I have a ‘96, so it’s just not going to work. After the wiring is done, it could go in the car! copperhens DEC 05, 09:17 AM Thank you Cliff for letting us be able to post images from our phones! It’s a huge step and makes updating these threads so much easier. I used Facebook over the forum more because it was easier to post pictures there, but now that we can do it here I will be around more often. James_GT DEC 08, 09:14 AM Your N* is looking real good! I've always been a fan of swaps with a nod to the Fiero V6 colour scheme Particularly when there's this level of attention to detail, which makes the V8 appear like it could've been a genuine factory option Motivation must have been at an all-time high if you were sandblasting in sub-zero temps! Your hard work and dedication is absolutely going to pay off in the long run Good luck with the wiring and please keep us up-to-date on the progress! Flying_Dan DEC 10, 01:02 PM Looking great! I've always wanted a N* with 5sp. copperhens AUG 16, 03:52 PM July 5th we got the car to my friends and it saw it’s new engine for the first time. We didn’t get the engine in until July 19th We had several clearance issues. We had to raise the front mount slightly because the oil pan was a 1/4 inch from the cradle and we didn’t think that was ideal. By raising the mount, it raised the front of the engine. So then it did not clear the passenger side hinge for the decklid. The PO already cut off the bottom decklid bolt. We ended up having to cut off the top bolt too because it did not clear. We have an idea for how to resolve this that I will write about later when we do it. The passenger side balance cover also went through the strut tower. The PO had already cut out the middle of the tower to make it clear, but did nothing to reinforce it. So my friend being the master welder he is, fixed up the hacked tower.