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1984 Indy Fiero SE Pace Car Replica #770
"SE" Stormtrooper Edition Rescued, resuscitated and reversibly modified! (I'm so not done yet!)

Poly all round & Black Drag DR-34s
Frt: 225/45 on 18x8 (47 offset w/ 8-9mm spacer) 1.5 coils cut off 1984 WS6 springs
Rear: 265/35 on 18x8.5 (45 offset) Coil-overs w/ 10 inch 300lb springs & 7 inch sleeve

Everything is the previous owners fault!

quote Originally posted by ThatFieroKid: Nice job with the paint! Looks like a professional job.

Thanks for the compliment, it has been a lot of trial and error trying to use a rattle can to get good results. One day I will buy a compressor big enough to use a real paint gun

quote Originally posted by redraif: i wanted to see the gas needle thread but the link will not redirect and gave me a dead page.

I have it bookmarked, and would not work. Took about 10 minutes to find it searching! The title of the thread did not work as a search. Sometimes I just do NOT understand how the PFF forums work. The tutorials are to help others when they are trying to do stuff.... how they are supposed to find it, I have no clue haha!

Anyhow, I did finally find it in the archives:
http://www.fiero.nl/forum/A...120111-2-111043.html

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Ok, still plugging away at the engine compartment. I got the strut towers, washers and all that painted up and done.

Here is a photo of where it stands now:



When I walk outside, and open the decklid, I notice what catches my eye first that needs to be done. Slowly, over time, less stuff is catching my eye

The cruise control vacuum thingy for the cruise control was next on the list. The bracket was pretty rusted up, and it's something I forgot to do when the engine was out and the inside of the compartment was painted. The bracket was really rusted, but with some cleaning, grinding and primering, it looks like it will come out good.



Next on the list of things to do, is the Upper plenum and valve covers. I bought a set in the mall, so I can have them completed, then just swap them in, instead of leaving the engine open while they are being done. Here is what they looked like 2 days ago, just before I took them to get them hot dipped. I will get them back on Monday. They are some of the worst I have seen. I don't know if this engine was sitting at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean or something!



When I get them back, I am gonna do my best to grind the plenum down, and try to get it as smooth as possible. When done, I want to get them powder coated in an amazing blue I found. It is a 2 stage process, first you have to do them in reflective chrome, then a translucent blue over the top of that. It looks to be a lot of work, but if it comes out like this, it will be worth it!



The color is from Eastwood... I found it here:
http://www.eastwood.com/hotcoat_Specialty

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Still plugging away a little at a time...

I had the glass installer out to install the new drivers and passenger glass I purchased from them. When he got the door apart, the regulars were REALLY rusty. There was no way to continue, and install everything back when he was here. I took the regulators apart, motors off ( and almost lost my thumb in the process...LITERALLY )!


The passenger side is too far rusted to repair, and a new one is in the mail from InfinateWIll.




I have the drivers door regulator all ground, sanded, primer, painted and greased up, and all ready to go back in:




Hopefully with freshly cleaned, painted and greased tracks, and new window motors, they will be significantly faster than before!

I continued working on the A/C vacuum canister, bracket, cylinoid and such, and have those completed. I just have to let the paint cure a couple more days before I reinstall everything.



I have been grinding and sanding away on the upper air intake, to get it nice and smooth to be powder coated transparent blue, like in the photo's a couple posts up. It is more time consuming than anything else, and just work on it in between other items I am working on.

Slowly but surely, it's getting there.....




The next small project will be the brackets for the throttle cable, and a few other items that were not done while the engine was being swapped. As mentioned before, I walk out, open the decklid, and see what catches my eye that has not been done yet, and work on that. When I get that piece / section, rinse and repeat.

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