Apparently, I didn't do much work on the car for a couple years. By now it was running decent and fairly reliable. At some point I installed big exhaust tips. I also replaced broken or missing bits and pieces of the interior and bought some good seat skins (the old driver's seat had the usual wear and everything was sun faded). I also replaced one of the sail panels.

A forum member named monkeyman gave me some batman taillight masks.



In July 2002 I bought new tires and wheels. The wheels were 15 inchers from a 1995 Grand Am. I stuffed 245-60-15 Dunlop tires under the rear and smaller Dunlop tires under the front. I also replaced the dew wipes. I had bought a new DGP chin spoiler with openings for driving lights a couple years earlier (which are no longer available). Now was time to install the spoiler (driving lights were on back order).



Next I installed hood louvers to help with cooling and to keep air from pooling up under the hood at high speed. Handling had vastly improved with the suspension mods and the front battery mod, but at triple digits, the front end still felt a little floaty with that heavy V8 sitting in the rear.

The first pic shows me tracing an outline with cardboard templates.



The louvers are from a 1985-1986 Trans Am (I bought them new at the Dealership).



Here is what it looks like from the back side.



Using some cheap Blazer brand driving lights, I combined the clear lenses onto the Fiero turn signals.

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The interior was starting to shape up, with the notable exception of the headliner. In August of 2002 I pulled the thing out of the car. The liner was old, stained, and falling apart. The backboard was cracked and crumbling.



I bought some fiberglass fabric and fiberglass resin to reinforce the backboard. Then I covered the backboard with new headliner fabric that closely matched the original color. I saved back a little material and had an upholstery shop recover my sunvisors. Here is the finished product, looks good!



During August and September 2002, I replaced the alternator and finally installed the driving lights.



Next on the agenda was installing a rear spoiler. I won a 1994 Dodge Shadow rear spoiler in good condition on eBay. I also picked up a different deck lid from the boneyard to replace the one with holes drilled for the luggage rack.



Next I began the rear deck lid scoop project. I bought a replica 1979 Mustang hood scoop to mount on the rear deck lid. First step was to cut a hole and drill the mounting holes.



A photo of the batmobile tail after it was back together.

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I forgot about my speedometer and tachometer mod. I can't find the original thread that covers it. Think I did that back in 2000. If you recall, the stock speedo and tach were all goofed up. I bought a matching set of Autometer speedo and tach. After a lot of modding and trial fitting and tweaking, I finally got them mounted into the original gauge cluster.



Here I'm testing out the gauges at triple digit speeds (seriously, I was going 100 mph when I snapped the pic).



The summer of 2002 found me doing more interior mods. I swapped out the stock shifter knob for a late model Grand Prix leather shifter knob.



I finished sprucing up the interior by installing a Momo Corse steering wheel and some sport petals I bought at Advance Auto.



Here is what the car looked like in the fall of 2002. I touched the body up a little in places with Duplicolor spray paint.





Let there be light! I finally got the driving lights wired up. I also installed clear lenses onto the turn signals.

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After all that blood, sweat, tears, time, and money spent, my poor Fiero was eventually neglected. The engine started burning oil badly, it had basically no compression in 2 cylinders. Blue oil smoke poured out everytime I started it. The engine needed to be rebuilt and the tired old TH125 was starting to slip. I did not completely abandoned it, but I certainly left out in the cold for several long years.



I remarried and settled down. I bought a new "arrest me red" 2004 Pontiac GTO with a LS1 engine that I spent time and money on. It's currently putting down 430 HP to the wheels N/A and about 550 HP to the wheels with nitrous. I got back into drag racing.



Here is a video of me putting the hurt to a 2010 Camaro SS. This is a N/A run, on the bottle I'm running low 11's and hope to be in the 10's this fall.

http://www.streetfire.net/v...10-camaro_708992.htm

The years have not been kind to the once mighty batmobile. The Kansas summer heat has bubbled up the clear coat paint. A bad hail storm broke the taillights and sail panels. The tires have gone half flat. It's been at least 5 years since I've started it. She is looking a bit sad.



But, there is hope! The batmobile will ride again! I have a 350 short block with 4 bolt mains lined up and plan to get AFR aluminum heads. I already have a lot of performance parts stockpiled and waiting. Think I'll get Fierox to swap in a 4T65E HD transmission (4 speed auto) for me.

Once she's running again, then it'll be time for a much needed paint job. Here is a photoshopped pic of what I'm thinking about for the new paint. Planning on repainting to the original silver on top and black on the bottom. What do you think? Does it need a red stripe to separate the two tone colors?



The plan is to remove the front emblem and fill the holes.

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