Real Fiero Tech

Alright, event report from Feb 22nd: IMG_0064 (1).jpg Mission Raceway is my local track, it's not big but it's a fun little road course. It had been raining very heavily the night before, but had stopped by the time the gates opened. There were some big puddles in a lot of places, so this wasn't goi...

ericjon262 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 27, 2025 9:23 am Is there anything other than the three bolts that hold the bearing, holding the spindle on with the Coleman spindle?

Nope. It's just the three bolts that would normally hold the cartridge bearing.

A few more pics of the current state of the car:

First real competition event for this build: Ice racing. Benefits of living as far north as I do, these events happen relatively nearby. There is no better way to very quickly and safely learn how a vehicle handles at, and well beyond, the limit than to go slide it around on a frozen lake for the da...

Ok I couldn't resist with the title. Now that my build is on the road and starting to see competition events, figured it was time to start a thread in this section for event summaries. Build thread here: https://realfierotech.com/viewtopic.php?t=21822 As a little bit of a background if you don't wan...

Alright, so, update. First off, the initial failure in shakedown. The Coleman racing spindle failed at highway speed, the threaded portion snapped off the spindle adapter resulting in the bearings being ejected rapidly. Thankfully the large fixed porsche brake calipers prevented the wheel from escap...

It did not go. Unfortunately. Going to do a more detailed after action post later on but the front right coleman racing spindle failed in shakedown so I didn't make it to the event.

Car is back together now, hopefully will have a competition report after this coming weekend

Well, after far....faaar longer than it should have taken, the Fiero moved under its own power yesterday! :-D There were many reasons for the delay but the main one was the wiring harness - I'm certainly an amateur as far as those go so I outsourced that work to a shop to build. Unfortunately that s...

Despite the vast majority of them being WWD, Honda makes good cars, has good hardware and the aftermarket for them is very broad. There are a lot of fun looking Honda builds out there. The wwd issue kept me out of them for a long time, but a couple things changed in the last 5-10 years that have ma...

Some more (mostly) cosmetic work. This time on the front end of the car. I decided I wanted to have big fog lights like the old 90s Imprezas and Evos. 001.jpg There was a rare version of the EF Civic Shuttle Wagon sold in Japan (the RTi) that came with fog lights in the bumper but of course those bu...

Some more progress getting the basics sorted out on this thing before it gets the drivetrain ripped out. I've installed the new brake kit from Brian over at FastBrakes. 11 inch rotors with 4 piston wilwood forged narrow dynalite calipers in front and powerlite calipers in the rear. Honestly it's mor...

I've got the Porsche Boxster brembo calipers on my Fiero with Wilwood rotors (the westcoastfiero kit) which fits under 17" RPF1s. My understanding from the research I've done on the Porsche side is that all 4 piston Brembos are very similar (often the same brake pad), but they come in a few sli...

1. The C6 Z06 dry sump addresses #1... And does a decent job of it. It doesn't really have problems unless the car has slicks and pulls >1.4gs in a left turn for more than 4 seconds. That means the "surface" of the oil is at 54 degrees from horizontal. Maybe a taller narrower external oil...

Will be interesting to see what you come up with. I'd start by looking at the Corvette designs as they've gone through the evolution of their dry sump system since the introduction in 06. They went from a single stage system in the C6 Z06 and ZR1 (basically a normal oil pan with a pump at the bottom...

(Some of this is slightly out of order in the order I'm posting it vs the order it was done, but I figured I'd group similar things together) Equally important to paintwork is accessories! I sourced an aftermarket roof spoiler as well as an EDM (european, not dance music) rear spoiler. I got a good ...

My next undertaking after the suspension shakedown was the most important of all - make the car look cool! But really, it was going to take some time to collect all the parts for the drivetrain swap and there was a lot of body work to do. Most of the work was stripping the old (very thin!) paint dow...

I was conjecturing about exactly such a build a few years back! I was thinking of the 6 speed, which would have to be sourced from overseas. I didn't know there was a k-series 5 speed CRV before that. Rock and roll, mang! :-D Yeah, 2nd and 3rd generation CR-Vs (2001-2011) as well as all years of Ho...

Autocross day! For this I set the ride height as low as the coilovers would go (which ends up being about the same as stock ride height) and cranked the rebound stiffness up to 16 clicks front and 14 rear (of 18). The car is certainly a bit softly sprung for tarmac use but that's not the goal, I rea...

First step - clean the car of all the grime and moss that was building up IMG_7116.jpg There were a bunch of quick maintenance items that needed to be done so I took care of those in the first couple months: - New struts for the hatch - New hinges to replace the rusty hatch hinges - Plugs/Wires/Dist...

Hey Folks, Figured I'd start documenting my other project a bit while I'm waiting on some machining delays on the Fiero project. Background - I had been competing in the BC Rally-X championship with my 2013 Subaru STI Hatch. Unfortunately it had an engine failure partway through the 2022 season. Ins...