#\ *doublec4* /# Official Build Thread (Page 5/87)
Eau_Rouge MAR 09, 09:52 PM
I also live in Oakville. The plan is to finish the car up by May so that I can go to Mapleview, this year not just as a spectator. I do still have a long list of things to do...redo headliner, door panels; sound insulation - done; black carpet - almost done. Alarm wiring - pain in the ass - not done; stereo - almost done; leather seats - done; shifter and e-brake boot - done; firewall cover - done; etc; etc; etc.
Anyway, too much stuff to list but I'm working on it and the plan is to have it ready by May. I want the car to look OEM to someone who doesn't know Fieros.
It's been three years since I've driven my car so I'm pretty keen on getting it back on the road. I gotta say seeing it all come together is very gratifying and motivating and yes it does look very nice. I just have to do a better job juggling a job, getting my accounting designation and my car, oh and can't forget about the girl.

Anyway, looking forward to meeting everyone this year.

Cheers


Awesome, where are you located in Ontario? I'd love to see how the leather and seude turns out, that will be luxuious [/QUOTE]
doublec4 MAR 09, 10:10 PM
Good to hear!

Its always nice having other fiero enthusiasts nearby. I'll have to check out your car for sure. I'm located near Bronte in Oakville, almost close to Burlington.

See you around!
doublec4 MAR 10, 02:41 PM
Continuing with the build....

Although the shop touched up my rear brakes with new calipers and rotors, as well as some paint, the front brakes were the same old. A friend here on the forum, Sabre49, and I decided that we should clean up our brakes and paint them. The following pictures are the progress of detailing our brakes. It's hard to tell who's car is who's but we did the exact same thing:



Cleaning the calipers up:



Apply paint and let dry:



Finished Product:





Some beauty shots afterwards:





Little did I know I was onto bigger and better things...
Mister MAR 10, 04:45 PM
Cool man, keep it up
ClayTonto MAR 10, 06:50 PM

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Originally posted by doublec4:

Sabre49 and I decided that we should clean up our brakes and paint them.



Red brakes Rock!

doublec4 MAR 10, 07:21 PM

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Originally posted by ClayTonto:

Red brakes Rock!



haha, I also think so. I heard they make you stop faster?

actually, I love red brakes so much that I did them all over again in red, just with bigger brakes... more to come
doublec4 MAR 11, 08:27 PM
Keeping on the subject of brakes and suspension, I forgot to mention that I also picked up a rear sway bar... basically a front bar that I would adapt to use on the rear. Unfortunately I don't have any progress pictures of the installation but I do have one picture to prove that I at least have the sway bar:



As for the brakes, shortly after making the stock brakes look nice and pretty, I decided that it was time to upgrade. I looked into a few of the swaps and I found that the lebaron swap (11.25 inch) would probably give me the best performance for the amount of money I could spend. I did my research on the forum and found the CAD drawings for the brackets. Luckily, I knew someone that could make the brackets for me, and he did them for free! That saved me a bunch of money. Then I took my front rotors/hubs into the machine shop and had the rotors cut off. I also had the proper spacers made for the brackets. I bought some rotors off of another forum member that didn't plan on using them anymore. Overall I did the brake swap on a budget. The only parts that I payed full price for were the calipers which I bought from an autoparts store, and a larger master cylinder which I ordered from GM.

I also cleaned up the calipers and painted them red for even better performance of course!

Here are some pictures of the parts, and a few pictures of them installed:













Unfortunately the camera quality at this point was still terrible. The calipers look orange in some pictures. Also, if you notice, I skipped ahead a bit to the point where I repainted the calipers and applied decals to them. I'm sure at this point you also noticed that they are not brembo brakes haha. I know its kind of poseur-ish but I thought the white on red looked pretty good and just gave it a little extra something. So the hell with it, I put the stickers on. I have better pictures that I will eventually add. Hopefully you guys get the main idea of what I did

Thats it for today.

[This message has been edited by doublec4 (edited 03-11-2009).]

doublec4 MAR 13, 07:48 AM
Shortly after the brake upgrade, I came across another forum member who was clearing out his fiero parts and parting out his car. If I remember correctly, his user name was 3.8T and he had a blue GT with a wicked 3800 turbo set up. Anyways, I picked a few parts up off of him including a new gauge pod with autometer gauges. There is water temp, oil press. and a volt meter. The gauge pod replaces the rally gauges and looks stock. These are sport comp gauges and 2 and 5/8ths in size I believe. I was really happy with the way it looked when I installed it, as well as to have accurate instruments in my car:





In the last picture you can see that not all of the gauges were hooked up at that point. I did not have them fully functional until the engine swap later on...
AkursedX MAR 13, 08:03 PM
I realized that I have not commented on this thread yet. I have seen your car more than a few times throughout it's progression and I must say that you have done a great job documenting things. It's awesome to see it all in one thread. I wish I would have kept track of my build like this.
doublec4 MAR 13, 08:29 PM

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Originally posted by AkursedX:

I realized that I have not commented on this thread yet. I have seen your car more than a few times throughout it's progression and I must say that you have done a great job documenting things. It's awesome to see it all in one thread. I wish I would have kept track of my build like this.



Thanks Joe,

I have tons of pictures sitting around on my computer and on my cardomain page. Unfortunately they're not all in chronological order so I'm sorting them out by memory as I go along. There are some things that I wish I took more pictures of, such as "in progress" stuff but I suppose I didn't see myself posting a build thread. I'll have to better document installing those parts I bought from you I can't wait to get everything on the car!