I know its a little late but hell there are still some small things left to do on my 87
so heres the documentation
This thread is deticated solely to the building of my fiero. Almost every step of my build will be detailed into this thread
Specs
1987 Pontiac Fiero GT
2.8l V6 with Getrag 5 Speed transmission
Options.
PM, PW, PD, sunroof, Rear window defroster, electronic trunk opener,
Added Options.
Leather Interior, Heated mirrors, Speekers in headrests, Carbonfiber interior trim pieces,
Body mods,
Fiero wearhouse 355 ferrari front end, V8 Archie intergrated rocker pannels, Kris munson Style flush mount headlights,
Pisa corp taillights with my own modded lights, Oldsmobel Aurora heated/powered mirrors, 17inch R-7 rims from moteggie,
Future mods.
Hell fire red paint job, Some kind of engine swap (SBC, 3800SC, Northstar, 3400pushrod turbo, 3400 DOHC,) Few mods to interior.
Now that the car is painted and showworthy i beleave a lot of thanks is in order
1. Back on holiday for helping me with a lot of tech advice and wrench time. Taught me everything i know now with this fiero. Without him buying his 88 i wouldent have the 355 front bumper thats on it nor would i have the JimmyS sail pannels.
2. Nexteldude. Almost dident get the V8 archie rockers off him but the guy who was goping to show up 1st never came so they were mine
3. JimmyS for the great idea of the reach through windows. They complemeny the car very niceley.
4. His PFF name escapes me but he sold me the seats I have right now. Pretty soon there going to be mr mikes but a thinks to him none the less.
5. my friend johny for trading in his POS tuburon and selling me his wheels.
6. daredevil for finding a perfect condition dash and carpets that was exactley what i was looking for.
7. Spoon for selling me the perfect condition door pannels i was looking for.
8. Mulletproof monk for sellinf me the PISA taillights they rock.
9, Chris hanfor the short shifter.
10. everyone from the tyler build who put me in gear to get my car done.
11. Everyone else on the forum who stood behind me while building it.
The car started out as a fully loaded 1987 Fiero GT
The car did not come with the stock taillights so I installed my taillights off my old car.
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After the taillights the car sat stock for a few weeks than a buddy of mine wanted to buy my stock side skirts so i sold them to him and added The V8 archie rockers.
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Also the interior was pretty bad so it also got replaced
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Next the front bumper was sold off the car so I replaced it with the ferrari 355 front end. Along with the kris munson headlights.
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Next came time to fix the rig job the PO did with an aftermarket gauge sending unit.
The metal wire leading out of that piece of plumbers pipe was in place of the fan switch, The fan switch is the switch that turns on the fan when the engine temp starts to get to high. The fans job is to cool off the collent in the radiator. The collent relies a lot on the fan due to the radiator is in the front of the car where as the engine is in the back.
That wire leads to this which dosent even work
Long story short on the fix on this as i dont have pics. Pepeboys was able to save it. I thought for sure there was going to be problems but they got it to work.
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Next the car got a wing (we call this wing the wing of death because it flew off the car one day it has been replaced)
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The next mod came te aurora mirrors. I wanted somthing a little more updates because the triangle mirrors would have killed the look i was going for
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Next at a fiero show i went to i was able to get a set of nice leather seat covers fitted for the fiero. Got them for $50 they looke pretty nice in the car but in time i will be replacing them with MR mikes seats
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After the seats i wanted to do somthing with the gauges so i picked these up
I had been getting sick of the corvette lenses on the car because they were very high profile on the car so i wantes somthing a little cleaner. I found my solution at napa.
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After that came the drunk as hell paintjob.
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Than i had gotten a set of rims off my friend and put them on my car
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I had remembered in my old car everyone used to complaine about how loud the speekers in the head roests of my seats were so this time when i hooked them up i hooked them up with a sepret volume controll from the radio.
Part of my centerconsole skeleton had to be cut out to fit this mod.
switches in the center console
In the car. One per side
Small addition carbonfiber tram on the inside
I finaly got my radio to sit in right. Had to butcher up part of my center console skeleton again but got it in along with a 1984 fiero climate controll system with black switches.
[This message has been edited by pontiackid86 (edited 03-11-2010).]