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I'm back after a long absence. Long story short I picked up this car last weekend from a buddy. 1985 Pontiac Fiero 2m4. Needs lots of small things to make it nice again. Car came with a new headliner, engine mount, window switch for the passenger side, fender (current one has a chunk missing lol), GT rear bumper and GT sideskirt. Already replaced the motor mount, air filter, fixed the cargo dome light, changed the oil and oil filter. Car is going into the shop friday to have the serpentine belt replaced. Hopefully on Saturday I can have the driver side window working (I think its slightly off track) and get the passenger side window working also. I have the switch, just need to take replace it.

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Some repairs:

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I've been looking into swaps. The guy I purchased it from wanted to restore it and do a 3800 Series II Supercharged swap. I'm thinking the same thing lol


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I'm the only one here in town. There used to be two red ones and a black one, they all have vanished :(
Hopefully getting the windows working today and replacing the busted fender with the new one that came with the car.

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I say do an engine swap that nobody would suspect.

Some local to me is putting in some honda motor and it's not even one of the good 4 cylinders... Hasn't had an update in awhile thou.

srt4 motor would be something I haven't heard of swapped into anything other then a dodge/chrysler

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Road trip?

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Kids these days!

Shit, wait, I'm one of them.

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A bit of exciting stuff today!!!

Some more pics of the most recent updates (May 3rd 2014).


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Cleaned the Canards out, need to be powder coated sometime.

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Test fitting the 17's

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Yup, look really good on here!

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Took the busted fender off to test fit the new one.

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Looked VERY promising, unfortunately it was catching on the door, something with the door.

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The fun begins!

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Bye shifter!

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Inner parts!

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Spare change anyone!?

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This is why the passenger side switch didn't work, the internals were missing from the switch...

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New one going in!

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Door panel being taken off to figure out why it wasn't working (driver's side)

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More progress...

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Getting there... don't have a picture of it being fixed :/

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Removing the old glass from the mirror...

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The Replacement!

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Getting close!

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Ready for the new one!

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Looks pretty good!

Don't have any pictures of the headlights being out of wack though...

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Looks like you're 11 cents richer there Mark.






Kids these days!




Shit, wait, I'm one of them.





Not sure if I'm glad to be out of the "kids these days" segment but if they're doing stupid stuff like that I am... :lol:


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Road trip?

Kids these days!

Shit, wait, I'm one of them.

Yeah okay - I'm in for the road trip.

I think this ties in very well with our discussion about psychology at the swap meet today too. I think that discussion was karma for this thread don't you think?

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The wheels are Nexo PX-5. They are 17's. I would love to drop the Fiero but for now, I need to spend money on more important things. $1200 for a kit is a bit pricey for me right now.

Also, the other images I forgot to load:

We decided to try out the interesting system that the Fiero uses. What I mean by this is that if it is equipped with the Sunroof, you can take the glass out and store it under the hood. Which we tested and thought it was awesome. We also took the seat covers off to inspect how bad the seats are. They are actually in pretty darn good shape. Minus the one tear on the drivers side.

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Sunroof in its little holder

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Inspecting the wind deflector and weather stripping on the sunroof (it leaks a bit)

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Wind deflector in

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What's the issue? Toss in a K24A4, double the power of the Iron Duke in there, plus those K-series engines can take a beating and are super reliable. Mate that up with the six speed manual from either an Acura RSX Type S or TSX, you'll have a drivetrain that you can flog on ALL day with no worries. Unless you installed something wrong. :P

Nexo? Never heard of them...they look like something else I've seen though. But $1200 to drop it? Getting coilovers?

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What's the issue? Toss in a K24A4, double the power of the Iron Duke in there, plus those K-series engines can take a beating and are super reliable. Mate that up with the six speed manual from either an Acura RSX Type S or TSX, you'll have a drivetrain that you can flog on ALL day with no worries. Unless you installed something wrong. :P

Inb4 the elders....

but yeah wtf cost $1200 to lower a fiero?

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