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Fiero was a good car? Did I hear that right? Every one I've seen has been falling apart, but I'll bet the chassis is the good part. I've got an '87 Trans Am GTA, the thing is bone stock and the handeling blows me away, but as with most GM products unless they have a very loving owner they fall apart after a few years, interriors break down, doors don't close right, and problems start croping up...
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.Karl. Southwest members, click here to check in!CA,NV,AZ,UT,NM,OR,CO Wanted...your busted SVX! Watch out Earl, I'm comin to getchya Return of the Pissed Platypus! X2 My dream (other than a pearlie) 1.8 SVXi and a laguna blue spoiler...somewhere I decided to quit drinking, but I didn't like it so I quit not drinking. |
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BTW...
I saw a picture of the solstice last night... Only in America park in next to your Aztek
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.Karl. Southwest members, click here to check in!CA,NV,AZ,UT,NM,OR,CO Wanted...your busted SVX! Watch out Earl, I'm comin to getchya Return of the Pissed Platypus! X2 My dream (other than a pearlie) 1.8 SVXi and a laguna blue spoiler...somewhere I decided to quit drinking, but I didn't like it so I quit not drinking. |
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If you ever decide to sell your GTA, I am VERY interested in making an offer if the car is what I want. The 87-90 GTA's hold a special place in my heart, and I WILL own one someday. Ok done with sappiness. |
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.Karl. Southwest members, click here to check in!CA,NV,AZ,UT,NM,OR,CO Wanted...your busted SVX! Watch out Earl, I'm comin to getchya Return of the Pissed Platypus! X2 My dream (other than a pearlie) 1.8 SVXi and a laguna blue spoiler...somewhere I decided to quit drinking, but I didn't like it so I quit not drinking. |
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Only issue is if the car has T-tops. If it does, then it's not much of a project car cause the torque from even a modded 350 will twist the crap out of that body. The hartops are the only cars of those years stiff enough to take serious power. I didn't realize until just tonight that you live in California...so maybe I would be better off trying to find one NOT across the continent. But even so, if you decide to sell, let me know. I'll see what I can do. |
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I wouldn't even consider selling it for less than I paid for it, and even then it would be dificult to get me to part. I actually would like to restore it when I get a garage to store it in. I paid $2000 2 or 3 years ago, and the engine is strong, feels fresh... and it's a theft recovery, so it would have a salvage title.
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.Karl. Southwest members, click here to check in!CA,NV,AZ,UT,NM,OR,CO Wanted...your busted SVX! Watch out Earl, I'm comin to getchya Return of the Pissed Platypus! X2 My dream (other than a pearlie) 1.8 SVXi and a laguna blue spoiler...somewhere I decided to quit drinking, but I didn't like it so I quit not drinking. |
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Lets just say that a fiero with a V-8 is a deathtrap... but an exciting deathtrap... like one of those rollercoaster deathtraps A friend of mine had one, thing flew like hell, untill body parts started to rust away and fall off... it was a 350 chevy engine, with some basics. to bad he crashed the front end, and it was totaled... (don't know how it was done though, he bought it that way, and it looks stock)
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http://www.ye-beast.com/ I miss my "little car." (Oh, this particular one is not mine, by the way. Mine was a stock 1980)
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Randy Johnson 3rd Registered Member 02-21-2001 First Member to Reach 10,000 Posts First to arrive at the very first Reading Meet Subaru Ambassador 1992 SVX PPG Pace Car Replica 110+k 1993 White Impreza L 240+K miles 2001 Legacy Outback Limited Sedan 250+K miles 2013 Deep Indigo Pearl Legacy 3.6R 49+K miles "Reading is my favorite Holiday" Mike Davis -- at Reading VI |
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I love it!!!! What a ride THAT would be!
Harry
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I agree it's going to be a cool car, but I also agree it would have been better on the Opel Speedster/Vauxhall VX200/Lotus Elise platform instead of this new GM Delta global FR platform.
I've had 2 Fieros (unless you count the rolling chassis as a 3rd), and my first was an '85 GT; V6 with a 4sp manual...the quickest 0-60 Fiero made. That thing was a heavy car that definitely showed it's GM lineage, but 0-60 was clocked at 7.0 in my car shortly before the engine gave up...I think it had "loosened up" as they say, since stock was supposed to be in the low 8s. I've also had an '87 MR2 5sp, and this was another matter altogether...MUCH lighter and more nimble than the Fiero, I could toss this car at any angle into any corner at will...I WILL have another someday. What fun! That said, the only car I've ever had that could begin to compare to my SVX was my '97 VW GTI VR6. 172hp, 0-60 in 7.0 (actuall 6.8 on my GTech after a couple minor mods) and that sound...I am certain the SVX will sound as nice after I open the intake and exhaust a bit. Nothing compares with 230hp and AWD though...nothing...
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Im a huge fan of the SC's. my friend owns one and its smooth even at 180k miles. phil
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.Karl. Southwest members, click here to check in!CA,NV,AZ,UT,NM,OR,CO Wanted...your busted SVX! Watch out Earl, I'm comin to getchya Return of the Pissed Platypus! X2 My dream (other than a pearlie) 1.8 SVXi and a laguna blue spoiler...somewhere I decided to quit drinking, but I didn't like it so I quit not drinking. |
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DEATH TRAP ii Once you get past the color . . . http://www.ntahc.org/modifiedhealeys...ian/Marian.htm
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Randy Johnson 3rd Registered Member 02-21-2001 First Member to Reach 10,000 Posts First to arrive at the very first Reading Meet Subaru Ambassador 1992 SVX PPG Pace Car Replica 110+k 1993 White Impreza L 240+K miles 2001 Legacy Outback Limited Sedan 250+K miles 2013 Deep Indigo Pearl Legacy 3.6R 49+K miles "Reading is my favorite Holiday" Mike Davis -- at Reading VI |
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I didn't realize that anyone was doing these conversions 'professionally'. Looks like a really clean installation. I might just have to keep my eyes open for a Vanagon Syncro with a blown engine to 'play' with........ -Mark |
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That bug-eye Sprite and the discussion about the Fiero reminded me about a Fiero I used to see on occasion by my last house. This Fiero had a pair of those MONSTER slicks on the back end. It looked like solid tires in the rear. I always wondered, with the mid-engine, where the heck they put the motor..... I really wanted to see what they had managed to shoehorn into it.
-Mark (What a beautiful shade of yellow on the Sprite, too..... ) |
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