Edit To Add: Yep, page is mine

quote Originally posted by 2.5: Oh you are good then, mine wasnt baked, and I actually drove it to Frazee less than week after it was painted. I was probably nuts.

Ahhhh! Thats why it looked so good! I had no idea you had JUST had it painted. Just so happens I took a good picture of you driving it

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quote Originally posted by JohnWPB: Edit To Add: Yep, page is mine Ahhhh! Thats why it looked so good! I had no idea you had JUST had it painted. Just so happens I took a good picture of you driving it

Thanks
Actually that is at least year old there. The first painted year (2011)I didnt have the Formula Decal or rocker extension.

Crazy the wheels are in exact matching position in that pic.

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Update to catch up for the past 3-4 weeks:

Thursday, March 26th, the day I was leaving for Daytona, the car refused to start that morning. Lou was kind enough to come over, and we spent an hour or so diagnosing, as I was getting no fuel pressure with the brand new AC Delco pump installed a few days earlier. It turned out to be a bad ECM. The old fuel pump, that caused a fuse to blow, had taxed the relay circuitry on the ECM, and it finally just gave out. Putting a new ECM in the car, it started up and ran great. I drove through and the car made it to Daytona PERFECTLY!

Friday March 27th, I got up EARLY and we drove to the Old Spanish Sugarmill for breakfast.
Here she sits, dead center while parked at the Sugarmill:
(WOW! I had to REALLY reduce this panorama to fit it here on PFF and it digitized something terrible!, the original is gorgeous!)

Throughout the day we went to 2 state parks, and a lot of scenic cruising. I put around 150 miles on the car on Friday.

Saturday morning, March28th, the day of the show, the car refused to start. With everyone from the show, a few came over to diagnose. 3 mechanics and a few others could not find the problem. It had fuel pressure and spark, but just refused to start. I hitched a ride over to the show.

My nephew drove down from his Marine base in South Carolina where he is stationed to hang out with me at the car show. I was SO dissapointed the car was acting up, as I SOOOooo wanted to be able to drive him around the New Smyrna NASCAR track that night

Saturday afternoon, I came back to the hotel, tapped the key and it started and ran perfectly! WooHoo! I would get to take Kevin around the track after all! I drove the car around the New Smyrna NASCAR track with my nephew riding shotgun. I hammered on the car pretty hard, It was AWESOME! The track is small with short straight away's. I could only get the car up to 80MPH or so before going into the turns. I did take the turns at like 60MPH though The car ran and drove perfectly to, around, and back from the track, to dinner, and eventually back to the hotel.
Here she sits on display waiting to take to the track:


Sunday morning, March 29th, the car again refused to start to go across the street to the show. Tried everything, again, had fuel pressure and spark. That afternoon, it started again, with just a tap of the key. I did notice the slightest miss the engine had before heading for the 4 hour drive back home. By the time I got the car home, I was running on 3 cylinders. I can pull the INJ BNK 2 fuse out with the car running, and nothing at all changes. I pull INJ BNK 1 and of course it dies. I swap the fuses, and still bank 2 will not work. More trouble shooting to do.....

Here is a video my nephew shot while driving around the track. the first couple laps are kinda slow and boring, it picks up though
Now for a little drinking game. You have to drink a shot for every time I say "Awesome" in the video.

(NOTE: I have a dust shield that I hardly ever hear rub. It only rubs when making a really tight turn quickly. Something I just dealt with, as I said, it does not happen ofter. In this video it just SINGS 1/2 of the time with the endless hard cornering! Needless to say, that is on my list to fix ASAP now!)

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First off, many, MANY thanks to everyone who has helped to diagnose this gremlin infested and possessed car.

Sad to day, As for now this build is on an indefinite / permanent hold.

This car has thrown problem after problem after problem at me, over and over and over, and I have done my best to over come them.

I paid $350 for the car when I bought it, and another $300 for the engine. To Date I have just over $11,000 into it, and it still does not run. I just hit my last straw today. The problem with it not starting in Daytona, (Problem 1) has still eluded myself and everyone else. Today I took the car over to Lou's and we did some testing. I barely got there as it felt as if I was running on 3 cylinders. We pulled the injector plugs, and all injectors are receiving pulses.

We loosened the distributor, and attempted to time it a bit, and rotating a full quarter turn and hardly any change in the sound of it running. Lou explained that is probably a loose timing chain, or worn gears. (Problem 2) If the chain was tight, and new gears, he says just a small adjustment of a couple degrees makes a significant change in the timing.

Third, pulling the plugs out of cylinders 1,3 & 5 (Rear facing). Cylinder One appeared normal. Plugs 3 & 5 appeared to have water on them. 90% chance of a blown head gasket. (Problem 3)

At this point, I do not have the time nor the resources to do a complete upper engine & timing chain cover / gear stuff. I can work my way around the small stuff, but this is just over the top for my abilities.

I will be putting the car under a cover indefinitely until I decide to sell it, part it out, or the rare chance of putting another engine in it. This was my daily driver, and thus have to purchase another car that is reliable, AKA not a Fiero

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