The Official Hot Rod Thread

[MuttX7]

3.4 GM is not an engine I would choose for reliability....

I can also think of more than a few cars I would rather sink the money into as well. Hell, I'd do a monster Miata before the Fiero and I am not a fan of Blue Ovals or Miatas.

 

[Bosshoss]

I have never seen a factory 4 barrel Pontiac 326/350.
Not saying they did not make them.

IIRC Pontiac had 326/350 HO's that were 4 barrels and even a slick little 6 cylinder OHC that had a 4 barrel.
This thread has brought back a lot of memories.

 

[Bigtanker]

What engine? Guy in Iowa had a 3800 supercharged swapped in one. I wanted to go flog it so bad....

That's been a popular swap for a while. When I worked at a local tore shop in the mid 1990's, one of the service writers had one. Quick car.

 

[RustyHornet]

IIRC Pontiac had 326/350 HO's that were 4 barrels and even a slick little 6 cylinder OHC that had a 4 barrel.
This thread has brought back a lot of memories.

The Sprint 6 is an awesome engine. There were two at the show last week. One restored and one barn find. The barn find was a drop top with a manual trans. Very cool.

 

[RustyHornet]

That's been a popular swap for a while. When I worked at a local tore shop in the mid 1990's, one of the service writers had one. Quick car.

Yeah those and the Northstar caddy engine. The 3.8 looks right at home in there...

 

[RustyHornet]

I can also think of more than a few cars I would rather sink the money into as well. Hell, I'd do a monster Miata before the Fiero and I am not a fan of Blue Ovals or Miatas.

I'd have a hard time deciding between a swapped fiero and a swapped Miata... The fiero is at least, or was cool at one point... The Miata is still and always will be a chick car...

 

[rhino]

I'd have a hard time deciding between a swapped fiero and a swapped Miata... The fiero is at least, or was cool at one point... The Miata is still and always will be a chick car...

. . . at best.

 

[MuttX7]

I'd have a hard time deciding between a swapped fiero and a swapped Miata... The fiero is at least, or was cool at one point... The Miata is still and always will be a middle to senior aged man who can't buy a Vette car...

FTFY. That's who I see driving them now, we have 3 or 4 customers who fit that bill. Lol.

 

[Bigtanker]

I'd have a hard time deciding between a swapped fiero and a swapped Miata... The fiero is at least, or was cool at one point... The Miata is still and always will be a chick car...

Yes....BUT the requirement to have a mullet to drive the Fiero really makes it a hard choice!

 

[RustyHornet]

FTFY. That's who I see driving them now, we have 3 or 4 customers who fit that bill. Lol.

I did at one point think about one for a budget race car. They would be fun, just so long as I didn't have to look at it...

 

[RustyHornet]

Yes....BUT the requirement to have a mullet to drive the Fiero really makes it a hard choice!

Don't forget the porno 'stache!

 

[RustyHornet]

Mullets are still hot, just ask Mom.

 

[MuttX7]

I think the other thing that turned me off of Fieros were all the fake Ferrari body kits.

 

[RustyHornet]

I think the other thing that turned me off of Fieros were all the fake Ferrari body kits.

I just found out about a new one the other day.... I'll post it later.

 

[raptrbreth]

Don't remember the guy's name, the host of that show "Ridez" or something, he built a Miata with a V8. Try something like that, kind of like back in the day a guy who shoehorned a 350 into a TR7.

 

[RustyHornet]

Seems like I once heard a story about a guy stuffing an American v8 into a small light British sports car...

 

[MuttX7]

Seems like I once heard a story about a guy stuffing an American v8 into a small light British sports car...

The same guy actually did that with two British sports cars. The less famous car was canceled when another company bought one of the British companies and thought it would be weird offering warranties on Ford motors.

 

[churchmouse]

IIRC Pontiac had 326/350 HO's that were 4 barrels and even a slick little 6 cylinder OHC that had a 4 barrel.
This thread has brought back a lot of memories.

When we (3 of us) were buying wrecked/stripped/repo'd cars and doing the fix it and flip it deal we came across one of those Fire birds with the OHC 6 with the small 4 barrel (Q jet if memory serves) that had a couple of bad "Followers" that had to be replaced.
My buddy got a hair up his tail and laid a slick as hell black Lacquer paint job on it. He bought us out on it.

 

[tatic05]

I recently sold my '72 spitfire to a guy who was looking to drop a 4.2 in it from an Audi. To much work for me.

 

[churchmouse]

Miatas are one of the ugliest cars.