Building 2.8 help?

OK a few quick things.

Return your oil pump and if you can get it, get a federal mogul high volume pump. Its not a high pressure pump, its a high volume pump that you want.  Bigger gears in the pump but the same relief pressure. Will keep your 2.8 or 2.9 assuming you went .040-.060 bore.  Trust me if will save your engine in the long run.

Next cam should be at least .420 lift at valve, .280 lobe lift. I went with that on a 1.52 rocker and was unhappy, swapped to a 1.6 rocker and it seemed to wake up.  So I would probably look for a cam around .450 valve lift and then stick to a 1.52 roller tip rocker.  Valves you can go with stock replacements or go big bucks on stainless, but honestly there is not much performance to be gained.

If you are keeping the stock injectors, get an adjustable fuel pressure reg to bump the pressure up, or buy a new set of 17lb injectors.

As for Pistons, I hope you went hypers vs cast, as hyperutectic pistons reduce rotating weight and let you spin the motor a bit higher between shifts, especially important with that 4spd.

Pop over to www.captfiero.com and click on the Fiero stuff for lots of details on my 1st race prepped 2.8.

Oh and be sure to port the exhaust manifolds. It'll be very obvious when you look down each exhaust port where it needs work.  Then get the outside of the port tube welded to the flange.  Properly prepped stock Fiero manifolds will get you within 2hp of headers on a 2.8.  As the stock intake does not flow enough to warrant true headers.  There are aftermarket package's you can buy that include new intake, headers and reprogrammed prom chip for about $1000 if you want to go that route.  If you can take the time to deck the heads .010 that will also help with bottom end torque by increasing the compression ratio.   Oh one last biggie,  I had to buy the V8 set as the speed shop did not have the V6 set, but Lifters, Comp Cam's P# 858-16  They are a fast bleed lifter.  At low rpms they don't pump up all the way, giving you the effect of a mild RV cam getting great torque off idle, and by 3000rpms they fully pump up and give you your full lift on the cam almost changing the engine from a torque motor to a high rev race motor.  They are awesome.  Cost me around $200 for the set but well worth it.  So much so that when I did blow my motor up from too many Nitrous Bottle launches and 7000rpm shifts, that I pulled all the lifters put them back in the box and will have them resurfaced to use on a different 2.8 in my 88GT that will remain stock with a V6. (well not a stock V6, but I won't do an engine swap on it, as I want to get collector plates at some point)

I was going through my old video's today and figured that this would be an appropriate place to post these.

These are from when I was running my 2.9 Fiero. The rear tires are huge 245/50/16's and I could still put them up in smoke at will.

http://captfiero.com/videos/mycar/captsride.wmv

How bout Beyond Red-line. She would do, 105kph, (about 65mph) in 2nd gear. It was a blast being able to hit the highway and still be clearing 2nd gear. 6500-7000rpm shifts in a push rod Fiero engine was a lot of fun.

http://captfiero.com/videos/mycar/highrev2.wmv

If you get really board, pop over to www.captfiero.com/videos for tons of video footage.