Well we had a beautiful weekend up here which prompted me to take Fiero2m8 out for it's first spin of the year.
I am pleased to report that it started, ran and drove beautifully with no issues
My 10 year old son Andrew and I lined up in front of the house with a half dozen of his friends watching when he asked me to launch the car (without nitrous cause I don't have a bottle warmer yet).
Trust me he didn't need to twist my arm as we proceeded to rocket off the line - no burnout here, it hooked hard even with the 3.73 overall gear ratio
We left 2 - 55 foot long by 245mm wide black rubber marks on the street!!!!!
Maybe someone can explain for me why without posi, I have 2 marks - all I can think of is good balance, excellent weight transfer and lots of torque...
I didn't get a video or picture of it this time, but if today's rain didn't watch them away, I'll snap a pic of the marks.

Here are a few pictures I did take yesterday...

After much deliberation, I decided to reinstall the stock indicator lights in favour of new ones.
This was mainly due to the fact that, I didn't want to remove the wrap around body moulding in the front and rear since they are part of the bumper covers rather than separate pieces.




So, between the wheelwells, I am going smooth the groove out and install a new moulding in the proper width, but one that ends up being fairly flush with the rest of the door.
This will take less work, better match the ends of the car and reduce the possibililty of cracking bodywork in a high vibration area like the doors...




Here is the first shot of the seats in the sunlight.
I think I will be replacing the firewall carpet with black carpet to better match the new proposed black body colour and highlight the seats better.
Also the carpet didn't clean up as well as I had hoped.



Bodywork coming soon as I have a goal of getting it to the paint shop next month...

Thanks for looking

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1986 Fiero2m8 (LT1 NX / 4T60 Roadster Build)
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Found a few nice pictures from the 2005 Central Pontiac Fonthill show:

Andrew and I


Rear view of new exhaust (at the time)


Interior with a roof over it


Stock LT1 mated to the original TH125 (lasted one summer)


New updates coming this week

Ryan and Fiero2m8

[This message has been edited by Fiero2m8 (edited 06-05-2007).]

I must admit that this is the largest amount of bodywork I've attempted myself.
However, gradual progress was made last week during my days off.
It's a slow process of repetition, elbow grease and patience!
Hopefully the results will be rewarding.
In the first pic, I grinded and roughed up the area where the door moldings were.
Once prepped, the fiberglass cloth was embedded and built up to flush with the rest of the door:




Here is a shot of the rear pillar I made with the window rolled up.
I didn't like the indent just above the rear top edge of the door...




Here are a couple pictures of the new design.
I built the fiberglass out flush with the door and made the whole top a rectangle.
Then I used my angle grinder converted into a sander with 80 Grit sandpaper to shape a notch.
The notch allows the widow to be completely rolled up if necessary.
I don't plan on running the windows up (pet peeve of mine) but wanted them to retain their ability to roll up completely:




Now I just have to make the driver's side look the same




Another area I wanted to smooth was around the rad vents I added.
I roughed up the area with 40 Grit sandpaper and fiberglassed them in:




I also glassed the top of the side skirts to the doors
I decided not to glass the front apron/spoiler in case I touch a curb after it's painted that might cause a crack.
With the fiberglass done, now is the time consuming process of sanding layers of pro body filler with gradually finer sandpaper:



Stay tuned for more pics this week - Ryan

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1986 Fiero2m8 (LT1 NX / 4T60 Roadster Build)
http://www.fiero.nl/forum/Forum2/HTML/071642.html