Always liked the Fieros. Nice job!

@Toys4Life

20 күн бұрын

Thank you, sir!

This fiero is no Joke

Love the Fiero. 👍❤ been here for over a year. 🙏😈🦅

@Toys4Life

20 күн бұрын

Thanks for waiting!

Nice you making me want to install a 3.8 Supercharged engine in my 1987GT I am trying to keep it original but I love a sleeper car 😂😂😂

I always thought those were cool cars, especially the 1988 GT models. The only time I see one is at a big car show.

2850 is damn light. Especially compared to modern “muscle” cars.

@Toys4Life

17 күн бұрын

True- but 90's Mustangs and corvettes weren't so heavy!

@Thumper68

16 күн бұрын

@@Toys4Life that’s for sure my 68 camaro is around 3200 pounds.

Damn, Mid 11s? Holy crap. That is really nice for what you have going on there.

l love the old fiero.

Depending on your 'daring' level (IF it's street driven!), if you want an easy weight saving, take your door skins off and remove the crash bars. They're about 50-60% the total of the door! Not kidding. It's incredible how heavy they are.

@DrFiero

19 күн бұрын

Oh, and pull all the carpets. And sound deadening material from under the dash, under the carpets, and up behind the seat. Coupled with the above post, there's your 200lbs right there!

Always interesting, informative videos!

@Toys4Life

20 күн бұрын

Thank you 👍

Love this car!

That was awesome!

@Toys4Life

19 күн бұрын

Glad you liked it!

Wow!!! I didn’t know your Fiero was such a monster!!! That’s awesome, you have a lot of fun cars!

This was pretty good. You do a damn fine job of explaining things. We have ZERO E85 here.

awesome car.

Love the Fiero content! I've got an '85 that is waiting to get the Duke pulled out. I'd like to start with a full rebuild just to honor it, *should* be good for ~130hp... end goal is the 3800 SC. Your videos do such a great job explaining your setup, and I'm sure I'll have to rewatch in a few years! Thanks!

Awesome video. Always loved the Pontiac fiero and for you to almost put a whooping on a c8 just made my jaw drop.

@Toys4Life

20 күн бұрын

Glad you liked it!

I loved my Fiero back in the day …I bought it brand new in 85 …. But now I guess you could say that my Corvette C8 is the modern version of it and I love it ❤️ …. Your knowledge and attention to detail is wonderful to watch . Keep up with the great content 👍🏻

@Toys4Life

17 күн бұрын

I appreciate that!!

OK it's finally been answered.. I thought it was the 3.8L V6 which was a lot more powerful than the 2.8L they were putting in them.. There was a guy local to me back in the day who had a turbo'ed 2.8L GT Fiero and that thing really moved out.. In 1989 he was beating all the Vetts around tracks with no problem once he turbo'ed it.. I think it was a 5 speed manual.. But it was fast..

Love the videos....yours among some others convinced me to swap my '88. #fierojesus

Back when the fiero I was a mechanic at the Pontiac they were a pain in the ass to work on

@Toys4Life

19 күн бұрын

Try working on a freaking Subaru, I've worked on both. I'll take the fiero any day. No the Tahoe made in 2008 has a ton of room, but it's also got about 13 modules.. I hear Lamborghinis are easy. My point is not to be a jerk, I think it's all kind of relative don't you think?

In retrospect I think I should have done a 3.8 SC automatic. I love the SC sound, it’s fantastic but I love the V8 sound more so that’s the way I went many years ago. The A/C compressor setup ain’t great on mine with very little wrap (not that it matters, I haven’t fixed the Freon leak behind the compressor in many years.) if I had the time and the money I think I’d swap it back to the 3.8 SC just for its much more simple setup. Oh well, maybe when I retire in a long time 😂 or my kids get older. I bet I could at least break even on the swap with my V8 being a hopped up ZZ4 with full roller rockers and LT4 HOT cam…I could probably get decent money for it.

@Toys4Life

20 күн бұрын

Fiero's are getting rare - keep it and plenty of time to do another swap - if you feel the need!

@txfieros

20 күн бұрын

@@Toys4Life for sure. They were a pretty decent amount when I was in college in the late 90’s, but nowadays months ago by and I don’t see one. I will tell you one thing, the V8 sound turns A LOT heads and gets a lot of questions whenever I stop for gas or anywhere for that matter.

I had a GT & always wanted to put a V8 or SC 3800 in it! Now you’re giving me motivation to buy another & race my brother in his. C8😂 Also how much do you charge to install the SC 3800? Nice race too with the C8..! Just a few more tweaks and you’ll beat the next one.

@Toys4Life

17 күн бұрын

It is a lot of hours and has to be a labor of love. Unfortunately, I would have to charge more than it is worth $$ to do a swap.

You have done what I always wanted to do.There is a 88 GT that I put away over 15 years ago.Been thinking about reviving it.Would like to pick your brain on the swap to 3800 huffer power.

@Toys4Life

17 күн бұрын

Everything you need is well documented on pennocksfieroforum.com. Search their archives - this is a swap that has a lot of good writeups so you can do what fits your preference the best.

@samuelgoodman2825

16 күн бұрын

@Toys4Life Thanks man got the gears grinding on it.Almost time for a new project I've got my 65 Dart GT 273 4bbl on the road and have room in the shop.I like a broad spectrum of vehicles.

You have a very interesting, well thought out Fiero. Well done. How hard was it so shoehorn the Buick 3.8 litre engine into a Fiero? What kind of brand, type and viscosity of oil and transmission fluid are you using in it?

@Toys4Life

17 күн бұрын

Since the 2.8 V6 that came with these as well had such a wide intake manifold, the 3.8 actually fits better IMO and all 6 spark plugs are even easier to change!

My 87GT needs this boost

bring it to GM Nationals at Carlisle, PA!

@Toys4Life

20 күн бұрын

I'd love to, but man that's a long ways from Minnesota!

At what power do you think you need to upgrade the axles? Is there even a stronger axle for it?

@Toys4Life

18 күн бұрын

I'm not sure but the turbo guys break them often and a lot of times all they can get are aftermarket replacements which aren't as strong as the original GM stuff was so it probably depends on if you've got an original GM axle components or aftermarket Chinese junk. Mine have lasted for years but I'm underneath there fracture limits apparently.

What transmission do you run in that.

@Toys4Life

17 күн бұрын

4t65e-hd with just a basic rebuild of known weak parts. It has held up for 8 years now and hundreds and hundreds of pulls. I am surprised 1-2 isn't going out actually!

I just bought a 87 Pontiac fiero gt and I’m really wanting to supercharge it how?

@Toys4Life

8 күн бұрын

Pennocksfieroforum.com Ton's of 3800 swap threads in there from years past - that's how I got 90% of the info to get started.

Fiero GTP >:)

Sounds like the ol suburban 😂

@Toys4Life

20 күн бұрын

Is in super thrasher?

Atmosphere doesn’t provide boost your engine is an air pump sucking in air.

@Toys4Life

17 күн бұрын

The atmosphere supplies about 14.7 psi of air pressure. It's not boost technically, but it's still pressure and that's why cars are a lot slower in Denver than they are and Florida at the same temperature of course.

@Thumper68

17 күн бұрын

@@Toys4Life atmospheric pressure doesn’t register on a gauge though. What your talking about is O2 air density that’s the reason why you need boost to make same power at higher elevations. Just like how it’s harder for us to breath the higher you go the less O2 is in the ambient air so it requires more total volume to get same O2.

@Toys4Life

17 күн бұрын

@Thumper68 I believe atmospheric pressure and barometric pressure are the same thing., barometric pressure measures your air pressure and You can convert it to PSI if you want. Denver is at like 12.4 #psi and Florida's like 14.7 so the air is denser with the higher pressure as they're directly related and therefore every breath of air in Florida contains more oxygen. I'm not sure what you're getting at.

@Thumper68

17 күн бұрын

@@Toys4Life I’m just saying that oxygen density in the air changes with the elevation and that’s why it’s harder to make power at elevation. We like to think of our engines needing air,fuel,spark to run but it’s really oxygen in the air that’s important. For open fire to burn you need like 16% O2 minimum obviously not the same as combustion in an engine but just for reference. The air we normally breath is around 21% at sea level the effective amount of O2 in aspen colorado is 15.4%. So the get the same amount of O2 in the engine that’s why we need boost. I mean technically the same amount of O2 is in the air it’s just not as dense or as you said as much pressure. I just hate referring to it as pressure because to our engines it’s not measurable as pressure so using density is better terminology imo.

@Toys4Life

17 күн бұрын

Speed density relies heavily upon the MAP sensor. Manifold absolute pressure. Anyway, I think we're just getting into semantics?

Did you use the pontiac transmission or the buick ?

@Toys4Life

7 күн бұрын

Buick / GM. 4T65E - HD