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by BigRedDeckSpoiler
Wed Jan 10, 2007 11:32 am
Forum: Technical Conversations on Pontiac Fieros
Topic: Clutch Bleeding
Replies: 20
Views: 6738

I used a gravity bleed on mine. Worked perfectly. This took just a few minutes, where doing the "pedal and bleeder" thing didn't accomplish much of anything. (Except making a little puddle of hydraulic fluid on my garage floor.) Started out with a completely dry system (line and hydraulics.)
by BigRedDeckSpoiler
Mon Jan 08, 2007 3:32 pm
Forum: Other Cars
Topic: Why did that Internet search have to work so good?
Replies: 30
Views: 5444

AntiCooter wrote:...I know how much you love that engine, but no matter how much you try, you will not talk me into it!
<snicker!> :thumbleft:
by BigRedDeckSpoiler
Fri Jan 05, 2007 5:43 pm
Forum: Other Cars
Topic: Why did that Internet search have to work so good?
Replies: 30
Views: 5444

Okay. Sorry. I must have had a brain cramp. I was at work when I typed my post. Maybe I closed the window to do something else. (Things can get really frantic, really quickly.) The gist of it was that I've never heard of a Fairlady Z. Wondered about that and the significance of RHD. Stimpy posted &q...
by BigRedDeckSpoiler
Fri Jan 05, 2007 2:38 am
Forum: Other Cars
Topic: Why did that Internet search have to work so good?
Replies: 30
Views: 5444

I thought I posted in this thread.
Was my post deleted, or did I just "brain cramp" and not hit the submit button?

Serious question.
by BigRedDeckSpoiler
Sat Dec 30, 2006 12:54 pm
Forum: Anything Goes
Topic: Dateline NBC
Replies: 50
Views: 6427

Aaron wrote: ...Stimpy, as far as the law can see, I have never committed a felony...
So... It's okay to commit a felony if you can get away with it?
Did I miss something here?
Or does that only apply to cops? Or just to you?

How do you decide which felonies are okay? And which are, ummm... over the line?
by BigRedDeckSpoiler
Sat Dec 23, 2006 11:27 am
Forum: Technical Conversations on Pontiac Fieros
Topic: Fuel Injectors: Why doesn't the math add up??
Replies: 13
Views: 2930

Using that Formula, I would need 21# injectores to make 200 HP with a V6. As it is, even 19s are too big for most 3.4s without pulling out a lot of fuel. Earlier, using the 2p8 w/15# injectors as a base for the calculations, I figured that 17s would be just a bit too small, but 19s would be a bit to...
by BigRedDeckSpoiler
Thu Dec 21, 2006 7:27 pm
Forum: Technical Conversations on Pontiac Fieros
Topic: If you had to choose... FOCOA, or Trueleo?
Replies: 29
Views: 5668

or you had a vacuum leak Don't think so. Idled at ~ 900 or so. Actually it was one of those "just keep it running well enough to get the cam broke in" runs. IIRC, the timing was about 4 degrees retarded, now that I think about it. Prolly the whole reason for the "glow". I didn't...
by BigRedDeckSpoiler
Thu Dec 21, 2006 3:54 pm
Forum: Technical Conversations on Pontiac Fieros
Topic: If you had to choose... FOCOA, or Trueleo?
Replies: 29
Views: 5668

I also had to dent my crossover where the shift cable comes across, then wrap it with header tape, in order to stop the cable from getting cooked. Seems to work okay so far, but it looks pretty ghetto-fied. I don't know how well the Trueleos clear the manual tranny linkage, but that, by itself, wou...
by BigRedDeckSpoiler
Wed Dec 20, 2006 11:51 pm
Forum: Pontiac Fiero Discussion (General Non-Technical)
Topic: First V8 SBC kit
Replies: 22
Views: 7617

The Dark Side of Will wrote:I thought about asking him if he'd gotten any of those TPI's over 200 WHP yet...
Here's one. I was there when this run was laid down. Belongs to Freddy Clark from Montgomery Alabama.
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by BigRedDeckSpoiler
Wed Dec 20, 2006 11:22 pm
Forum: Technical Conversations on Pontiac Fieros
Topic: If you had to choose... FOCOA, or Trueleo?
Replies: 29
Views: 5668

probably go witht he focoas - v-band clamps are sooooooo much easier to deal with and will make for replacing the y-pipe with a turbo y-pipe 10 times easier I've got FOCOAs. The flanges for the Y-pipe are just flat surfaces butted together with the V-band clamps holding them together. There's no in...
by BigRedDeckSpoiler
Sun Dec 17, 2006 11:32 pm
Forum: Technical Conversations on Pontiac Fieros
Topic: Best lifters
Replies: 25
Views: 6755

Several of the theories concerned blanks made by CWC (which mine is) being of inferior metal and another theory that Crane lifters were made of Chinese steel, and inferior to how they used to be. CWC is the foundry that made the factory Northstar cams and a WHOLE LOT of other stuff for GM. I think ...
by BigRedDeckSpoiler
Sun Dec 17, 2006 9:06 pm
Forum: Technical Conversations on Pontiac Fieros
Topic: Best lifters
Replies: 25
Views: 6755

yeyo_racing wrote:The lifters that came with my 2030 cam "tick" a lot even with 5W50 syntetic oil. I thought about Rhoads lifters but they don't make ones for the 60º V6.
I've heard that Rhoads lifters clattered like hell. At low RPM they leak down in a hurry.
by BigRedDeckSpoiler
Sun Dec 17, 2006 8:57 pm
Forum: Technical Conversations on Pontiac Fieros
Topic: Best lifters
Replies: 25
Views: 6755

All the lifters are run of the mill. its 25 year old technology. They stamp them out hundreds at a time. I dont' know of a high performance 60 degree lifter made by crane, so yea I guess run of the mill too, which they all are anyways. If you think about it though there isn't much to a lifter. I am...
by BigRedDeckSpoiler
Sun Dec 10, 2006 8:39 pm
Forum: Technical Conversations on Pontiac Fieros
Topic: Best lifters
Replies: 25
Views: 6755

Original GM lifters would be ok. But just an FYI, Crane makes the lifters for GM. Even the stock run-of-the-mill lifters? I've heard horror stories about Crane lifters. One of the local engine builders (same guy who ported my heads) said that he uses GM lifters in all his builds. I was considering ...
by BigRedDeckSpoiler
Fri Dec 01, 2006 2:14 am
Forum: Other Cars
Topic: One less ugly car on the road
Replies: 12
Views: 2408

...A female passenger was also hospitalized with injuries...

Damn. Even billionaires aren't immune to doing stupid shit, trying to get laid.
How do you say "Hold my beer... Watch this!" in Russian?
by BigRedDeckSpoiler
Sat Nov 25, 2006 1:45 am
Forum: Pontiac Fiero Discussion (General Non-Technical)
Topic: Canyon: 1, Fiero: 0
Replies: 52
Views: 8235

Dude...

I mean, Holeeeeey FUCK!

You are quite fortunate to still be at anything above room temperature.
I'm happy that you didn't get hurt.
Now that a couple have days have passed, are you still feeling okay?
by BigRedDeckSpoiler
Sat Nov 18, 2006 1:06 am
Forum: Technical Conversations on Pontiac Fieros
Topic: auto to manual swap
Replies: 9
Views: 2985

If you don't care about the clutch interlock, grab a manual tranny engine harness. You will have to move only one wire (I believe it's the large yellow wire) in the *car* side of the C500 connector. (You can move the wire in the engine harness side of the C500, but if you ever forget about moving th...
by BigRedDeckSpoiler
Tue Oct 31, 2006 1:27 am
Forum: Technical Conversations on Pontiac Fieros
Topic: What is this for?
Replies: 9
Views: 1246

You said the black plug?
The one that's hanging out of the console?

Looks a little bit like a power window switch connector.

Edit... Is it hanging out in front of the shift console?
If that's the case, I'm guessing it's cruise control wiring.
by BigRedDeckSpoiler
Fri Oct 27, 2006 9:16 pm
Forum: Pontiac Fiero Discussion (General Non-Technical)
Topic: Hub centric rings?
Replies: 25
Views: 5756

They're 57.1. I remember this because the freaking wheels I finally found in the widths/offsets I wanted only came with the Subaru center bore, which was 56.1. :mad: I was thinking that I could gain the extra 1 mm with a flap wheel chucked into an electric drill or die grinder. Fortunately, I found ...
by BigRedDeckSpoiler
Tue Oct 24, 2006 4:04 pm
Forum: Pontiac Fiero Discussion (General Non-Technical)
Topic: This HAS to be a fiero... (rebody)
Replies: 20
Views: 5756

Holy shit!
Dallas GA is just up the road from me.
I've never seen that car.

Thankfully, I've never seen the woman from "Steroids 'R' Us", either. (((shudder)))