Thank You Las Vegas Fiero’s
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Topic: Thank You Las Vegas Fiero’s
Posted By: Capt Fiero
Subject: Thank You Las Vegas Fiero’s
Date Posted: 06 August 2007 at 11:08am
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Lisa (FieroChick) and I are on our honeymoon in Vegas I have put 3500kms on my 88GT since we left Surrey B.C. Canada. Well a few things started to act up. We were heading through the Mojavi (sp) desert and my drivers side headlight dropped. What the heck. We pull over at the next exit and come to find that the bushings in the motor had failed. I guess being as the car has never been driven in this type of heat before I should have expected a few things to fail. My next issue was really not a failure but none the less was an issue that had to be fixed. I have a custom prom chip in the car and it is setup to run the car just perfect in the 60 degree weather of B.C. Canada. However with my under drive pulley on the crank, with the A/C cranked on high, headlights on, radiator fan and other assorted things, the voltage was running low at idle and I realized that the idle was so dropping to around 850rpms which meant the water pump was not moving nearly enough water to keep the engine cool in Vegas traffic. Well we roll into Vegas around 5pm on Sunday and on a whim I call up the number for the Las Vegas Fiero Shop. Fully expecting them to be closed but I was hoping to get a recorded message with their hours. Well to my surprise Dave picks up the phone and says yep we are here, and to bring the car down. I pull up, find more Fiero's than I have seen in a very long time if ever. They have a yard full of Fiero's. We talk for a bit and he has new bushings in stock. I was a bit leary of trying to do the work in this kind of heat, so he goes back into the shop and hands me a rebuilt headlight motor and says that if I really don't want to work in the heat, he offered to swap it for me. Well I was not about to let him go that far and actually do the repairs for me, I was just amazed that I was able to get the parts. He went out and opened up the gate and let me pull the car into the yard and I got to work. Took all of 20 mins to completely swap out the motor. They even let me take the entire headlight bucket into there nice Air Conditioned office to do the work. I went out put it back in the car and the headlights were working perfectly. Yaaaa. It just so happened they had a guy, named Matt who was there at the shop with all the software to make new chips for cars. I asked him if he had time to alter my chip and he said sure. So I went and pulled my chip from the ECM. My chip and I presume most Fiero chips have the "A/C ON" idle boost set to Zero. He gave it 200 rpm boost for when the A/C is on and gave it an idle speed change from 900rpm to 1000 rpms for just plain idle. Which moves my AC idle speed to 1200rpms and straight idle to 1000rpms. The car is running much better now and I am not constantly blipping the throttle in traffic to keep the voltage up. We are here in Vegas until Thursday and then heading for Utah then Montana and then Richland Washington for the Fiero Fest, then finally heading for B.C. Its going to be over 5000kms of driving on the car but I am having so much fun. Oh and in case I forgot to mention  FieroChick and I got married last weekend. I will be posting pics in th e congrats Dave and Lisa thread when we get back to B.C.------------- Capt Fiero 88 Fiero GT 5spd V6 Eight Fifty Seven GT V8 5spd. |
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Posted By: Bassman
Date Posted: 06 August 2007 at 3:08pm
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If anything David...suprised to see you taking the time and even finding a PC to advise of us the details of your trip...lol...Blair, Marcel and I were joking that you must be going NUTS not having any tecnology to tinker with...well we were wrong...lol. I have seen the Vegas Fiero shop web site and remember joking with you on how big that shop was and how nice it would be for our club to have a place like that...great resource, should see if they post parts for sale that we could purchase if required. Cheers and safe travel on the balance of your journey ------------- Brian (Bassman) 86 GT Fastback 3.2L 2013 Mazda3 Sport GS SkyActive [IMG]http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u243/Bassman68/BassmanSignature.png"> |
Posted By: Capt Fiero
Date Posted: 06 August 2007 at 8:34pm
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Yes they ship parts anyplace in the world. I have a small stack of business cards to bring back for the members. They ship Loomis and charge the shipping at your door so you never pay more for shipping that it actually costs to ship a part. They also charge really reasonable prices. 20 bucks for a rebuilt 87/88 headlight motor for my car. I don't know if that was special pricing for us being on honeymoon or not, but in either case it was a great deal. I have lots of pics of there cars as well including an original Indy and a few other nice cars, a purple fastback and a nice green notch back. ------------- Capt Fiero 88 Fiero GT 5spd V6 Eight Fifty Seven GT V8 5spd. |
Posted By: Capt Fiero
Date Posted: 06 August 2007 at 8:35pm
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P.S. we brought the laptop so we have the GPS to find out way around, and it turned out the Hotel has free wifi for all its guests in the rooms. ------------- Capt Fiero 88 Fiero GT 5spd V6 Eight Fifty Seven GT V8 5spd. |
Posted By: Capt Fiero
Date Posted: 12 August 2007 at 10:32pm
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As promised here are the vegas Fiero Shop pics. Lisa said that he told her there was 140 Fieros in total at the shop.
------------- Capt Fiero 88 Fiero GT 5spd V6 Eight Fifty Seven GT V8 5spd. |
Posted By: Blair
Date Posted: 14 August 2007 at 5:55am
| What was the parts pricing like? |
Posted By: Capt Fiero
Date Posted: 14 August 2007 at 9:50pm
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Well the pricing they gave me off the street for a full rebuilt 88GT headlight motor was 20 bucks, (about 21 bucks CDN) They charge Loomis shipping at your door so you never pay more than the exact shipping cost of the item they send. They have a 20 minim charge to send a person out to the yard to pull a part. They said there is no sense in sending someone out and get heat stroke in one of the cars for less than a 20 part. (It is so hot there, that they actually set some of there priced based on time in the heat to remove it. ------------- Capt Fiero 88 Fiero GT 5spd V6 Eight Fifty Seven GT V8 5spd. |
Posted By: TairrieB
Date Posted: 19 February 2008 at 8:10pm
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is there a website for that?
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