4.0 V8 Swap
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Topic: 4.0 V8 Swap
Posted By: tk_85redgt
Subject: 4.0 V8 Swap
Date Posted: 31 May 2011 at 7:54pm
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I got a 97 oldsmobile aurora with a 4.0 V8(244 cu in)base of the 4.6 northstar motor.does any 1 know or heard of any 1 doing this swap in a fiero?what i read about these motors is that they are a smaller northstar motor with 250hp and 260 lb.ft.the car has 155000km on it and drives great drove it to pick a part with it,what a nice drive in it.So does any know if it can be done? Tino |
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Posted By: Romeo
Date Posted: 31 May 2011 at 8:18pm
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Tino, the Olds Aurora is a quite literal race engine (Shelby Series 1, Oldsmobile Aerotech II), and it can take a phenominal amount of power with the stock internals (The CarCraft from March had a Aurora-powered car with two centrifugal superchargers ramming enough air down it's throat to make 560HP, on all stock block and internals). However, as best I can tell, it still suffers from the difficulties of adapting a normal Northstar engine to the Fiero, as it is a rather complex ECU set-up. Can it be done? Certainly. Would it be easy? No. ------------- Never shift into reverse without a back-up plan. |
Posted By: tk_85redgt
Date Posted: 31 May 2011 at 9:16pm
| Yes u can make lots of power with these motors.getting the motor i think can be done but the ECU is my consern find some 1 that can reprogram it,this car is fully load with key chip and computer for fuel range,trip counter,distance and you can moniture the oil,oil life,trans oil life and other think all buy push of a button.It is a comlex system on this car so many features.the car has lots of get up and go for a heavy car. |
Posted By: Romeo
Date Posted: 31 May 2011 at 10:04pm
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Well, have you tried searching Pennock's to see the Northstar conversion process? It'll be no different for the Aurora. As for stuff like fuel range, they normally run off a myriad of sensors, some of which don't even exist on a Fiero. Might be better to simply leave those features alone. ------------- Never shift into reverse without a back-up plan. |
Posted By: tk_85redgt
Date Posted: 01 June 2011 at 5:41am
| Yes i've tryed pennock no luck yet. |
Posted By: Romeo
Date Posted: 01 June 2011 at 8:45am
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There's no threads about the Northstar on Pennocks? ------------- Never shift into reverse without a back-up plan. |
Posted By: Patrick
Date Posted: 01 June 2011 at 10:16am
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That's odd, I did a quick search at Pennock's for http://www.fierosearch.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?start=1&forum=-1&where=SUB&SearchQuery=Aurora&Action=DoSearch&datesort=D - Aurora and came up with 62 hits. Must be a couple of those threads dealing with engine swaps. A quick search for http://www.fierosearch.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?start=1&forum=-1&where=SUB&SearchQuery=northstar&Action=DoSearch&datesort=D - Northstar brings up 660 hits!
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