Nice car. Do you do things with the Lansing club? If you haven't sold it by May bring it to the Gilmore Farms-Museum for the dust off. There will be some Fieros there.
Thanks gentlemen, alot of love (and even more time and money) has gone into her.
I haven't done anything really with the club, it's spent most of its time locked away, I have it too nice to enjoy myself, too afraid something could happen to her.
What's the deal with the welded on box along the cradle? It almost looks like an 84-87 cradle has been modified to accept the 88 suspension pieces. It also looks like the parking brake cable is being routed to the rear (84-87 style) vs. within the front crossmember (88 Style). I would like to know more details of these things.
The cradle is one of the trophy peices of the car.
It is the 88 cradle (at least a bit of it), it just been mostly fabed up using tubular square stock. This car originally was getting a v8 swap. We had both a 383 sbc and a fresh 4.8 lsx engine that we had grand visions of plopping one of the two in there. The cradle had couple spots right around the mounts for the trailing arms that had rust issues & rather than patch it up we built the nastiest cradle ever put under a Fiero.
I don't want anyone being put-off by the fabrication. The cradle isn't butchered together. My family owns a body shop my dad has been in the business for 35+ years. We have a Genesis Laser Measuring System and dimensionally the ass end of the car is dead on to the millimeter plus the cradle looks nice too, extreamly professional.
We eventually went with a tricked up 3.4 (which is still a riot) instead of the V8 but in the future whether its the new owner OR (if people keep jacking me around on it)...Me, the car is a perfect canidate for something a little bigger back there and it has one heck of a place to sit.
As for the emergency brake, the pic is a little deceptive. It does still run up in the front cross member it just is comes down under the cradle on the driver side of the car rather than going thru the side. A little fabricating was done there too but with all brand new cables, springs, everything the E-brake engages and disengages flawlessly.
Not on hand, I had the girl who took my pictures take a couple shots of the bottom, one on each side just to show the suspension and that it is as clean underneath as up top. I have a picture just like the one you are looking at of the passenger side, that is it right now.
Now if you were an interested buyer, id crawl under there and try and get a few more but then again id tell you to come look at the car in person and you can stick your mellon under there and oogle at it until your hearts content.
Just like the ad says, like the pictures come see the car. I'm 150% confident in it, they don't come nicer than this one.
Front facsia molding has been reworked into the narrow splitter below the inlet for air to the radiator. Always hated how the wrap around molding made the car look like it has an over bite. The car is lowered in the front so it doesn't look like the nose is is up in the air without it either.
The trim has ask been been sanded out, primed, painted and cleared black. The surround is the Fiero store over lay.
Drivetrain: 3.4L V6 w/ 5speed Getrag Manual Transmission. (Est. 225-240hp)- MAYBE 1000 miles since rebuild.
- Total rebuild- Long block was a 3.1 with 17,000 miles Bored to 3.4 with then professionally assembled with following parts: -Keith Black .0040 Domed hyperutectic Pistons (10:1 compression ration) -Fiero Cast Heads- Milled .0010s -Melling Cam: Duration 278/288, Lift .420/.443 -Crane Gold 1.6:1 Full Roller Rockers -Melling High Volume Oil Pump -Truleo Intake Manifold -Bored Trottle Body -Bosch 19# Fuel Injectors. (New Bosch High Volume Fuel Pump) - West Coast Fiero Cold Air intake- (Functional Ram Air from Drivers Quarter Vent.) - All new MSD Ignition parts w/ Taylor 9mm Thundervolt wires -Powermaster 140amp Alternator -Newer style Die-cast Aluminum Oil Pan- *pan bolts to into sides of main caps to tie bottom end of engine together like a girdle -*Every Sensor, Swith, etc. is new.
Exhaust: West Coast Fiero Shorty Headers & Y pipe into custom 2.5' back into a single Flowmaster Super 44 Muffler with Dual 2.25' out. (Sounds Amazing w/ cam)
Brakes: NEW -New Lines Front to back -New Calipers on all 4 corners -New Slotted & Drilled Rotors -New Emergency Brake Cables & Hardware
Suspension: -New Monroe struts in the back -New KYB adjustable gas shocks in front -Front end dropped 2 inches -Fiero Store 88 Rear Tubular Trailing Arms.
Exterior: Stock Except for following
Paint- Crystal Red Metallic Tint Coat- (2013 Corvette & Camaro ZL1 color) with Black roof Panel. -One of a kind decklid with lip spoiler & scoop to clear Intake manifold. -Custom Quarter Vents -New Rims and Tires all the way around. 18" Motegi MR7s 225's up front & 255s out back. -LED Running Lamps & Turn Signals
Interior: Black Carpets New Lloyds Floor mats "with "Fiero" Stitching Black Leather with red insert seats out of Pontiac Solstice Black Trim Short Shifter TLG center console w/ cupholders 8 inch Pioneer Sub mounted between seats. Kenwood head unit & all new speakers. Amp mounted behind passenger seat
Misc. Rebuilt headlight motors and a million things i have forgotten...
Believe that the man still has it and with the 3.4L engine price is set at $10K. Looks nice in the video.
------------------ " THE BLACK PARALYZER" -87GT 3800SC Series III engine, custom ZZP /Frozen Boost Intercooler setup, 3.4" Pulley, Northstar TB, LS1 MAF, 3" Spintech/Hedman Exhaust, Autolite 104's, MSD wires, Custom CAI, 4T65eHD w. custom axles, HP Tuners VCM Suite. "THE COLUSSUS" 87GT - ALL OUT 3.4L Turbocharged engine, Garrett Hybrid Turbo, MSD ign., modified TH125H " ON THE LOOSE WITHOUT THE JUICE "