Aurora 4.0l / Izuzu 5 speed swap into 88 coupe (Page 79/102)
Bloozberry DEC 08, 08:06 PM
Lookin good there Charlie! I must admit I don't recall seeing any body panels when I visited you in March. It was a surprise for me to see these latest pictures with the white panels... looks good and will be cooler under the Phoenix sun. Maybe I missed it, but is it a pure white or does it have pearls or metal flake in it?
mitchjl22 DEC 09, 01:49 AM
I found an aurora in a pick apart yard today with the drivetrain virtually untouched. I can get it all for like $300, but is it worth it? I'm going to go see if it runs tomorrow. This looks like a great swap. How hard is the wiring harness to run? Does it need to be custom made, like the 3800 swap? The mounts look very good too. Have you got yours in and running yet? I skimmed the 20 pages. It looks nice!
motoracer838 DEC 09, 08:58 AM
Wow, is that color I see? lookin' good.

Joe
cptsnoopy DEC 10, 03:29 AM

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Originally posted by Bloozberry:

Lookin good there Charlie! I must admit I don't recall seeing any body panels when I visited you in March. It was a surprise for me to see these latest pictures with the white panels... looks good and will be cooler under the Phoenix sun. Maybe I missed it, but is it a pure white or does it have pearls or metal flake in it?



Thank you Dave!

All the panels were here in March but they were stashed all over the property. The paint is a single stage urethane (I hope I said that correctly) and the color is supposed to be the same as the white used on the stock 1988 Fiero. If I am lucky, we will get the rest painted in the next couple of months...

Charlie
cptsnoopy DEC 10, 03:49 AM

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Originally posted by mitchjl22:

I found an aurora in a pick apart yard today with the drivetrain virtually untouched. I can get it all for like $300, but is it worth it? I'm going to go see if it runs tomorrow. This looks like a great swap. How hard is the wiring harness to run? Does it need to be custom made, like the 3800 swap? The mounts look very good too. Have you got yours in and running yet? I skimmed the 20 pages. It looks nice!

Thank you Mitch,

I used the Holley 950 commander and a prefabbed wire harness from chrfab.com. I still had to do a lot of splicing to shorten the wires to the correct length. It was pretty time consuming but eventually you get it done. It was definitely not plug and play... That was several years ago. Now there are much better after market computers available and I suspect there may now be people who can hack the stock Aurora computer so it will run the Aurora motor in a Fiero.

My motor runs. But, it is not tuned yet and with the Holley 950, that can be a real pita. I would suggest getting one of the newer computers that have "self tuning" capabilities.

Charlie
cptsnoopy DEC 10, 03:56 AM

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Originally posted by motoracer838:

Wow, is that color I see? lookin' good.

Joe

Hi Joe,

Yes, finally! Thank you.

Charlie
RCR DEC 10, 07:12 AM

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Originally posted by cptsnoopy:

Originally posted by mitchjl22:

I found an aurora in a pick apart yard today with the drivetrain virtually untouched. I can get it all for like $300, but is it worth it? I'm going to go see if it runs tomorrow. This looks like a great swap. How hard is the wiring harness to run? Does it need to be custom made, like the 3800 swap? The mounts look very good too. Have you got yours in and running yet? I skimmed the 20 pages. It looks nice! Thank you Mitch,

I used the Holley 950 commander and a prefabbed wire harness from chrfab.com. I still had to do a lot of splicing to shorten the wires to the correct length. It was pretty time consuming but eventually you get it done. It was definitely not plug and play... That was several years ago. Now there are much better after market computers available and I suspect there may now be people who can hack the stock Aurora computer so it will run the Aurora motor in a Fiero.

My motor runs. But, it is not tuned yet and with the Holley 950, that can be a real pita. I would suggest getting one of the newer computers that have "self tuning" capabilities.

Charlie



Mine's running on the stock computer (no mods). Not throwing any codes, but it's not driveable yet, either. My plans are to add the body controller at a future date. And yes, hopefully someone cracks (or cracked) the darned thing.

Bob

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IXSLR8 DEC 27, 01:04 AM
Charlie,

I'm not sure if you were aware that there was a fellow that created an independent program to self-tune the Holley 950 (the one you have). I'm not sure if he's still selling the program since the new Holley 950 has the built in self tuning software. The program was dirt cheap(I think I paid $15 for it in May 2011) and worked well according to those that have used it. I haven't used it yet as I've been running on the LS1 computer with the Shelby program though I have bugs still to work out.

The program is called: Pro 950 Auto tune software.
The guy that created it is named Tom and his email address is/was: tomzeect@netscape.net
It runs on Windows 2000, XP and Vista.

Westers up in Canada has the Aurora running on the stock GM computers.
cptsnoopy DEC 29, 03:13 AM

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Originally posted by IXSLR8:

Charlie,

I'm not sure if you were aware that there was a fellow that created an independent program to self-tune the Holley 950 (the one you have). I'm not sure if he's still selling the program since the new Holley 950 has the built in self tuning software. The program was dirt cheap(I think I paid $15 for it in May 2011) and worked well according to those that have used it. I haven't used it yet as I've been running on the LS1 computer with the Shelby program though I have bugs still to work out.

The program is called: Pro 950 Auto tune software.
The guy that created it is named Tom and his email address is/was: tomzeect@netscape.net
It runs on Windows 2000, XP and Vista.

Westers up in Canada has the Aurora running on the stock GM computers.



Thank you,

I have looked into at least 2 different self-tuner programs for the H950 and I may have actually paid the $15. It was several years ago so I will have to email Tom and see if it was his program I bought... Now that I have a new laptop I may give it a try once I get the body on...

Happy New Years everyone!

Charlie
cptsnoopy JAN 26, 09:51 PM
More teaser shots: I was looking to see if the rear lights looked good with the white body color. I like it so far.

Also, here is the current idle exhaust note. It sounds a little different now, a little quieter... youtube

Charlie






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