Oh, if anyone is looking for some interior parts I will probably have some for sale
Nolan

Edit: Yay, I own page 7

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I took some comparison pictures of the two dashes side by side, I thought that those of you who are considering this swap would fine them informative. I can see some challenges from this comparison.

The first three are of course the back/undersides. you can see that the connections to the fan blower boxes are different, the Fiero's is offset towards the passenger while the Stealth's is basically central.




The next two pictures are of the ends of the dashes. I will need to make custom door panels to match the new end cap condition on both ends of the dash.



Here is a view of the tops of the dashes, as you can overall see the Stealth dash is considerably deeper than the Fiero's. As a result there won't be quite as much room in front of the passenger. I suspect that there won't be too much room lost in front of the driver. I will also need to see how this affects the shifter.

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Edit: Hi Timo, I have seen his thread and I am referencing it below. Thanks!

This next picture is quite telling. The Stealth dash definitely has a sharper radius on the curve where it sits against the front windshield (this picture exaggerates the difference). I will have to take some measurements to see if I will be able to trim enough off of the leading edge to match the stock radius. One good thing is that the defroster vents will line up although the Stealth has longer vents.


And another interesting detail concerns the glove box on the Stealth dash. The stock Fiero ducting cannot be used for the passenger side outer most vent as it will conflict with the glove box. The fan blower box my also interfere but I won't know that until I get it into the car.
Here is the Fiero:

nd the Stealth:


I will be using some of the information gleaned from these two threads:
http://www.fiero.nl/forum/Forum1/HTML/052432.html
http://www.fiero.nl/forum/A...050119-2-053286.html

I have done a search but cannot find any additional threads for this swap. Does anyone have any other information that they could share?

Thanks
Nolan

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I have done some additional work on the dash. Here the ductwork has bee stripped out of the Stealth dash:



And after marking the names of the connectors that I could identify i removed the wiring harness:


Quite a bit of crap came out. I will hang onto it as who knows what may come in useful:

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And now for the moment of truth, the initial test fitting!

I knew from reading in 4.9 PFI FIERO's thread that it is going to be a reasonably good fit so I wasn't too worried about how it generally sits in the car. One thing that 4.9 PFI FIERO has that I don't is all the support brackets from the donor Stealth, I will have to fabricate all the brackets needed. I guess that one advantage to that is that I can make the brackets to suit what appears to be the best way to anchor the dash. So here we go:



It also appears at first glance that the glove box will not interfere with the fan blower box



Here are a couple of pictures of the top corners shot through the windshield. It appears that the front radius curves back about 1 3/4" further on both ends compared to the Fiero dash. I will have to see how much can be trimmed off without affecting the positioning of the top vents. It also looks like some sort of attachment can be made through the round speaker hole and the top vents that would line up with the mounting holes in the Fiero frame.



I will also need to fabricate some fiberglass inserts for the corners. That will be interesting as I don't have a test mule without the front windshield in place.

I am very happy with the overall fit, the side to side fit is exact and the console/steering column holes a excellent as well. I really think that this updates the interior and me likes it a lot!

So what do you think?
Nolan

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I wanted to see how the Stealth console fits. To do this the Fiero's console skeleton needs to be removed. After the first test fit I realized that I had to trimm off the plastic mounting tabs on the underside of the Stealth console as well as trimming off the bottom portion of the "cup" at the back end. Once all that was done I was able to put the console in place, and it just fits although it seems a little on the ticht side:


The shifter will sit further forward than the stock Stealth one so the bridge between the front and back console openings needs to be removed as well to allow for this. I will need to make a template of the whole recessed area in order to make a plate for mounting the shifter boot, window/mirror controls etc.


Here are some more pictures through the front windshield. The defroster vents were removed and it looks like I can trim a bit off the front edge.

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