LS4 / F40 swap - fieroguru (Page 111/216)
fieroguru NOV 01, 06:59 PM
Today, I started the process of breaking down the garage. All shelves are now down and all items on them packed away yet again. We close on our house in 8 days, have movers for the house stuff scheduled for Black Friday, and need to be out of the current place by 12/1. The next month will be a whirlwind, but we can finally see the light at the end of this tunnel that started 1 year ago. This will be my 4th move since then, but we should be in this house for many, many years to come...

It does mean I have to setup another garage, but the new one is large enough I can bring most of my equipment back out of storage and start putting it to use.
oldrock2401 NOV 22, 08:24 PM
Will you still be around the Champaign area? Haven't even been here long enough for me to check out the ride lol.
fieroguru NOV 22, 10:06 PM
Yes, the new house is about 2.5 miles from the current one.

Been on vacation this past week... painted 4 bedrooms, 1 bathroom and nearly 1000ft of wood trim white. Really looking forward to going back to work!

Still have to stain all the kitchen cabinets, fireplace surround, and 4 vanity cabinets... good project for this upcoming long weekend.
fireboss NOV 23, 09:38 AM
sounds like one of those working vacations...

alpine67 NOV 23, 03:19 PM
Would any of you guys happen to have a G6 F40 intermediate shaft assembly you're not going to use?
Danyel NOV 23, 09:56 PM

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Originally posted by alpine67:

Would any of you guys happen to have a G6 F40 intermediate shaft assembly you're not going to use?



Have you tried V8Archie ??

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dobey NOV 26, 12:28 AM

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Originally posted by alpine67:
Would any of you guys happen to have a G6 F40 intermediate shaft assembly you're not going to use?



Could you perhaps not spam every F40 thread on the forum to ask for someone to sell you one of these? I'm sure your local GM dealer can get you one.
43577 JAN 02, 08:44 AM
So, I'm all like, "I wonder if anyone has done an ls4 swap, I'm gunna check the Internet". Not only is this thread the first hit on Google, but you live in my town.

What are the odds?

Anyway, nice build. I use to race with ccscc back in the day, and I even use to own an 88GT. I am looking for an 88 now, and also thinking of an ls4 swap.

Cheers.
fieroguru JAN 02, 09:12 AM

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Originally posted by 43577:

So, I'm all like, "I wonder if anyone has done an ls4 swap, I'm gunna check the Internet". Not only is this thread the first hit on Google, but you live in my town.

What are the odds?

Anyway, nice build. I use to race with ccscc back in the day, and I even use to own an 88GT. I am looking for an 88 now, and also thinking of an ls4 swap.

Cheers.


Welcome to the forum!

Cool! I came back to the area about 1 year ago and have been back in Chambana since July. I currently live in the Sawgrass Subdivision, but purchased a house in Tunberry Ridge and will be moving around the 15th of Jan.

One of these days I will have to take you for a ride in the LS4/F40 Fiero... its quite fun!

I do have an 88 GT clone with a cyl/auto that hasn't moved in a year (bad water pump) and 2 LS4/4T65e-hd setups in storage. I could be talked out of some of this stuff as I really don't have room for it in the new garage and need to downsize some to get out of paying storage ($153/mo).

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fieroguru JAN 02, 05:36 PM
Over the past several weeks, we have been slowly making progress on the new house in preparation for the move. All the kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities are now a dark brown/near black as well as the main stair rail going upstairs, all the main floor carpet has been replaced with wood flooring, and the walk in pantry is nearing completion.

With all this progress as well as the looming move date, I was able to shift my focus to preparing the 3rd car garage bay. Here are a few original pics... lots of lighter duty shelves and the paint was too dark...




I have now removed all the shelves, filled all the holes (PO didn't know what a stud finder was... lots of search holes to find the studs to mount the shelves), and 2 coats of white paint. The only windows in the garage are through the back door, so the walls need to be white to maximize the brightness of the garage... more/larger lights are also on the agenda...



The pictures above really don't show the color difference well (unless you focus on the relative color of the back door), so here is a better one for that. The wood for mounting the garage door is the original color the entire garage was.


On Sunday I plan to start mounting the work benches, the tool board and probably moving some equipment from the current garage over here.

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