Red to Grimm Dragon

March 27th is Chris's aka Fire451's Birthday, so lets all wish him a happy birthday.

Happy Birthday Mr. Zander  (Zander is his other nickname)

 

Man did you ever think that by this time in your life, you would be settled down with a wife and 2 kids.  (with me just months behind you on having the 2nd kid)

 

P.S. please excuse the multiple postings as I am going to plaster this in all your Fiero threads.  HeHe.

 

Glad to hear that.  I'd hate to see it go another winter just sitting.  We should find you a spare rear cradle so you can pick up the trans from the locker and start putting a motor together get it bolted to the trans and setting up cradle mounts for the entire thing.  That is unless you are going to try and find a TORONADO Cradle to use? 

Well once you get all this overtime taken care of, you will have time and the cash to play with the car again.  However better get that garage sorted out so you can put it in there or its going to be a long winter of no tinkering.

Damn thats low, you need to take a few steps back and get a good side on shot.  That looks amazing.

DaCoupe wrote: Cant wait to see it on all four wheels aired out heheheh

soon my friend soon

finally some progress,

and I got to say I am a very happy guy, I will let the pictures do the talking for me...

lower mount

upper mount welded in

all in and painted

and my fave pic.... look at that tuck...  coulda gone lower but the stupid wheel well got in the way

 

    Well I saw your tranny today, first time I have been to the lockup in a while, man she is a chunky one for sure, looks like with some surgery here and there cut off a little here, clearance a few holes, should be good to shove it right in. 

All kidding aside, it does look like a beast.  I see it gots an open diff is there any kit to convert it into either an LSD or better yet an air locker type of setup.

I would pay admission fee just to see that installed.  Ain't no way in hell you are squezzing that in a Fiero, not even sideways.  Unless you cut the strut towers out completly and moved them over about 4" on either side.

 

You NUTZ, I can't wait to see this all come together.

fourpoint9 wrote: Fire451 wrote: ...still trying to find a place in the states to get my cage shipped since Jegs doesn't ship them to Canada or PO boxes.. I could receive it for you?

I thank you very much ,i think i will take you up on that... I will pm you
when i am ready to order

Duck wrote: Really? You're running a TPI setup? The L98 engine came out in... '85, IIRC. I know aftermarket companies have managed to squeak out more power from that intake, but I would have imagined you'd be going for a bit more top-end power. The TPI manifold falls on its face after about 5500 RPM. They were meant to make power down below 4500.  I was imagining you'd be going for something a bit more high-tech like at least an LS1, or even just an LT1 which revs much better. I still think you should go with the LS376, or maybe an LSX block at least. They'll support well over 1000hp and the whole engine design is far superior to the old stuff.  Anyway, with that much power, it doesn't *really* matter what design you go with. The TPI still has one of the coolest-looking manifolds ever.  :)   Cheers, Kris

Trust me ducky, this is just the interm motor till I can afford the one that I have planned for the car and trust me it is a little more high tech then the old tpi setup