88 Coupe 4.9 Swap Thread (Page 17/69)
josef644 NOV 12, 12:25 PM
Neet Video Mickey_Moose. I must have watched it 5-6 times listening to the roar of the exhaust.Thanks for posting the link
Joe


I got page 5

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Fieroseverywhere NOV 12, 12:27 PM

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Originally posted by Mickey_Moose:

Also found a crappy video of my first drive (I lost the first startup video (and others) due to a hard drive crash way back) no exhaust after the manifolds and wheel alignment way off:
http://members.shaw.ca/efog.../4.9/first_drive.avi




Great video!

I never got a first drive vid. My first drive was around the parking lot at the shop. No VSS connected, EGR silonoid missing power wire, high idle from ISC out of adjustment, no ground on F7 & C10, no speedo, and tack reading high. It was a mess. It still felt faster then any other fiero I had driven at that time. A real seat of the pants drive. I wasn't sure if it was going to hold together or not. It was great!

Dan_Seattle NOV 12, 01:47 PM
First drive I ever did with mine there was still some unfinished pieces to the conversion. I was almost shaking with excitment/nervousness. Mainly watched the temp, oil pressure etc. Each time out was a little longer over the course of the next few weeks as I finished up other little parts of the conversion.
Fieroseverywhere NOV 12, 02:10 PM

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Originally posted by Dan_Seattle:

I was almost shaking with excitment/nervousness.



Lol! Best feeling ever! Ok, maybe not. Still, it makes all the trouble worth while.
Mickey_Moose NOV 12, 04:12 PM

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Originally posted by Dan_Seattle:

Dude, your wife lets you bring car parts/stuff into the house?



So as long as it is clean and I don't leave them all over the kitchen...
josef644 NOV 12, 07:57 PM
I cleaned and painted the oil filter adapter this afternoon. I used silver 'Hammered' looking paint on it. I will put two coats of clear engine enamel over the 'hammered' silver in the am after the dew burns off. It was 47* this morning at 700am, lots of dew. Had a breakdown on the tracator this morning and didn't get to do all I wanted to the 4.9.
Dennis LaGrua NOV 12, 09:34 PM

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Originally posted by josef644:

I had that happen on a 302 Ford once. I use a short piece of heater hose, and fit a metal plug in the end. Put a clamp on it, then just slide it on the nipple, and tighten a second clamp. On these 4.9 swaps it will never be seen anyway. Those rubber caps are worthless.
Joe Crawford



My technique is to fill the unused water outlet with black silicone sealant, then cap it off after it sets up.

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josef644 NOV 13, 12:46 PM
Oil filter adapter painted with hammered silver, and two coats of clear. I'll put it back on the car this afternoon.


Tuurned out real nice
and back on the engine:

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josef644 NOV 13, 10:43 PM
Checking things out some more today. I found my ECM ground wires I had put out of the way to wire up last are not grounded to anything. I need to fix that. It is about 4-5 wires that come togeather. I want to ground these to the block, as the block will also be also have the NEG battery lead attaached to it. I need to add a chasis to engine ground. I need to add the POS batterey lead to the starter, and install a battery. I am thinking to add a long heaev gauge wire to the starter solinoid for easy spinning the engine over at this stage. I can always remove it later. I am gonna spin it over a bit to get the oil pressure back up before I try to fire it off sometime tomorrow.

I have been looking forward to this for 4 years now, since I got the Fiero bug real hard in 2006

Really Real Burning Hot Close
josef644 NOV 14, 05:02 PM
Added the POS & NEG battery cables, starter jumper wire, shorty exhaust pipe, exhaust crossover pipe, tied up some wires to close to the exhaust. I capped off the brake booster vacume tube. I went and got 2.5 gals fresh fuel and added it in the tank. I will add another 2 gals after I see where the fuel gauge reads. I will install a new rotor underneath the dist cap, add the 8 spark plug wires and then give her a spin tomorrow. I could have finished up today, but.........

I was removed from my garage by brute force. A gray headed, rolling pin swinging grandmother threatened me with iminent bodily injury and making me sleep in the garage for the rest of the year if I didn't stop , clean up and go shopping with her.

She didn't think it was funny when I told her "OK, thats wonderful news, are you sure you wouldn't mind?" Dad-gum it my head hurts like sin!!!!!

Joe

Wish me luck guys
Snuck back outside and installed the new rotor. She never knew!!!!!!!

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