I have searched this site for years and finally took the time to join up.
I suggested to a friend that after his car was stolen from his driveway he should replace it with ( insert cars of choice for young kids here ).
He had a cutlass with a spec built engine, that car was crazy fast. One day naming off cars i joked " hey you could always rebuild your v8 and throw it in a fiero"
apparently he was not offended and bought an 85 GT.
I was impressed with this little car having never been in one before. He added a zex nitros kit, and then swapped in a turbo from an eclipse.
that's was a fun summer of smoking your typical v8 RWD cars, until a oil line came loose starving the turbo, good by engine.
Well I was looking through the auto trader for my first car and there on a page was a black and white photo of a 86 GT with 65,000 km on it for sale by the original owner.
Being young, poor, and not able to purchase ANY new car I bought this unit. It was such a memorable purchase the lady that owned the car had EVERY piece of paper and booklet she had gotten from the dealership. She made sure to keep pointing out it was only driven in the summer as she couldn't drive a standard in winter.
I honestly felt she did a better job, "delivering" me my first car then a dealer would have, she loved that little car. When I drove up to first see it, it was sitting in the driveway looking like it had never been driven.
I had many years of replacing and updated the aged pieces, alternator, water pump, nothing big and a good learning curve for me.
its now 10 years later and I still have the car and have come to be in a love hate relationship with it. It ALWAYS seems to be a black hole sucking in all time and space when I get to work on it.
But it is always worth it in the end.....so far.
I have gone through the entire suspension the last few weeks installing all poly bushings, KONI's, sway bars, the HT motor-sports bump steer kit, and intrax springs. I have solid cradle bushings but am sitting on them because I cant make up my mind on the next engine and they will go in then. Every summer the car gets better and I grow fonder of it.
I own a fiero, I have never burst into flames, and I have never had a reliability issue with it ( currently just passed 100,000 km last week ). This car serves one purpose, to put a smile on my face when I see all the stares it gets from those that do not know what it is.
Hello, I will be posting from now on.
[This message has been edited by Samuraijack (edited 11-09-2010).]