My 3800 SC1 swap

Looks great so far!

 

One more question, where do people put the ECMs on swaps. I've
seen in the trunk and engine bay but I am going to
put mine in the cabin. It's about twice the size as the fiero unit so I
was wondering how it gets mounted in the cab. I was thinking possibly
behind a seat or just make a custom center console to fit it in either
the stock location or lying flat.

I will most likely put it against the firewall behind the passenger seat
or if it fits, on the floor.

More progress has been made. I got the fuel tank back in the car and
am done most of the fuel lines, just waiting for the engine to be in the
car for the last bit so I know exactly where to end them. I got all new
tubing and went around the drivers side of the engine bay.

Today I started making the fittings for the heater core holes using bits
of the old heater core lines. Being an 88 fiero I just need the one line
from the engine to feed the heater core so I am using the other inlet
to the engine as a fill point and am peicing together bits from the old
heater core plumbing and the fiero tstat housing since it has a nice big
cap for filling.
That is the last thing I need to get done before the engine goes back
into the car. So hopefully I can finish that up tomorrow and get the
engine in sometime next week since I won't have time on the
weekend.   

Well I've got most of the lines hooked up to the engine- heater core, passenger side radiator hose, trans cooler lines, fuel lines and most of the vacuum lines, just need some tubing for the brake booster line and some pipe for the drivers side rad hose.

I havn't had time to work on the car for a few days now but will hopefully get back into things this week.

It's been a while since the last update, but I have been getting things done.




Got the shifter sorted out and working, filled the coolant system with no leaks! at least with no pressure. New spark plug wires, got the last of the engine/battery wiring installed, the interior harness to the PCM is done.

I built a bracket to connect the throttle cable from the fiero to the one from the donor car so I could use the stock brackets.

The 2 cables are crimped together inside the box.

Another picture of what I did with the heater core outlet/inlet.


Here's the interior harness:
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I sent the prom out to sinister performance to get programmed and should be getting that back hopefully tomorrow or wednesday, that's all that's needed to fire it up for the first time. (and putting in some fresh gas and the battery.)

Still to do:
wire in the speedometer, and ALDL port.
put the interior back together and mount the ECM
install intake ductwork- parts are on order, should arrive monday.
Exhaust.
I am going to enlarge up to 2.5 inch right after the manifold, into a catalytic converter then around into a muffler with an outlet at each end like the stock GT has and back to dual tips on each side.

Does anyone know if they make a catalytic converter where the inlet and outlet are on the same side next to each other, so it is kind of like a Uturn inside?

If all goes well I should have it running by the end of the week. :D

Always nice to see another modding car hitting the road

Our next meeting is a week from tomorrow... Saturday, July 10th. We'll save a spot for you in the Ricky's parking lot!

 

D_sensitized wrote: It's alive!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srhRIbG92mk ...sounds great.

Heh heh, sounds like a tractor.

I'm sure it'll really sound great when you get an exhaust system on there.

Congratulations on getting it running!

 

That's a nice Fiero you've got growing in your garden there.

 

Scott's Turf Builder. Look for it in the SUPERCHARGED IS WIN section.