This web page chronicles the resurrection and
restoration of Andys 1984 Pontiac Fiero 2.5L (Bored
30 over with a comp cam).

This car came to me from my brother in law, it was
in bad shape when my friend and I looked at it but
it had some potential. Fieros are kool Iat the time
I had been helping Gore upgrade his Fiero. To get
my 1984 Fiero, I traded a truck bed for the Fiero.
My brother inlaw needed it to sell a truck that he
had and, I couldn't use the bed or sell it. So we
traded and home came my Fiero.

Right off the bat, this car didn't run. The timing
gear was blown. We were going to just replace the
blown gear but my Dad suggested that we do a
complete tear down of the engine just in case there
was something else wrong. So we removed the motor.

There was nothing wrong with the rest of the
motor. It was slightly rusty on one of the
cylinder walls so I had the block bored out
30 over. When I rebuilt the motor I put in a
comp cam. While the motor was out of the car
I took the entire back end apart and spent the
summer restoring the metal frame. There was a
lot of rust on the frame right by the wheel
wells. This was all replaced with new metal.
While restoring the frame I invented a way to
help prevent new rust from forming by making
"rain guards". I installed these right over the
wheel wells and the new battery tray. Once I had
the frame restored I put the motor back in.

In the junkyard I found a GT front bumper, the
bumper was in ok shape but some of the mounting
brackets were shot so I fond some new ones and
made a new front plate out of some old boiler
plate metal. This plate is 1/4 of an inch thick,
I don't think it will ever rust away.

Ok we have the frame done, the new front bumper
on, Motors in. Time to drive! well almost. The car
would not run at first. Turns out I had missed one
of the power connectors. The car won't run if
there's no power going to the ECM! I felt like an
idiot and my friend had a good laugh. At least we
found the problem. With the car running we were
able to test drive it. Turns out that the brakes
are the original brakes from 1984. One of the rear
callipers came lose on the way to work one day and
turned the rotor cherry red hot. Its a good thing
that my brother followed me to work that day. I
had to replace all of the brakes with new ones.

Some of the brake lines also needed replaced.
The brass t-connector was so corrodded that the
fittings stripped out when removing them. At the
time you could only get this part from the dealer,
that means $$$. We got a replacement from the junk
yard but that one also stripped out when removing
it. A friend showed us that we can replace the
bubble flair t-connection with a Double flare and
just re-flare the brake lines as Double flairs.

Now I removed the side panels because I had
purchased some side scoops. The guy that sold
them to me took forever. turns out that he didn't
even have them done when he sold them on Ebay.
I had to wait a month before I could get them.
When they finally showed up they weren't any
good. By this point it was to late to complain or
send them back. I ended up re-doing the whole side
scoop just to get it to fit. I still have one
panel to re-do.

As soon as I had the motor rebuilt I took and
installed the BIG wing. This is the wing that
my car is known for. Its so big that it sticks
up over other cars like a shark fin in a sea of
cars. When I started searching for a wing, I
wanted something like the wing for a dodge road
runner. Those wings turned out to be way out of
my price $range$. Then I fond this light bar
for a dodge truck. it was 10.5 inchs to wide and
its supposed to face the other way. This wing
used to be mounted behind the cab of the truck.
Using two pieces of boiler plate I made two
mounting plates and attached the wing to the
deck lid. The two flood lights are wired up to
my reverse lights. The centrer portion of the
wing was cut and made 10.5 inches skinyer.

My car is running and I've been driving it
everywhere. The car's interferer was just as bad
as the rest of the car. The head liner was
removed and restored. That was easy for us to
do. it only took us one night to replace the
fabric. Over the summer I took out parts and
re-dyed them and now all of the panels inside
the car look brand new. We even found a
perfectly good dashboard from the junkyard to
use.

Everything in the car was manual, nothing had
power. One day my mom backed into my fiero. She
broke the mirror and cracked the fibreglass. it
was a small crack but it still coast $500 to get
it fixed. Her insurance gave me the money in
cash so I was happy. When I went to get a
replacement mirror they charged me $60 for it and
it wasn't any good. The Mirror had a big dent in
it. I returned the mirror and got my money back.
A week latter I went to Dalelee22 place and
bought a whole door with power locks, power
windows and a power mirror for a lot less than
$60 bucks. I used the parts from that door to
upgrade my door so that my door will have power
everything. Latter I went back to Dales and got
some more power door parts so that I could
upgrade my other door. When I took the doors
apart I also replaced all of the door seals.

I had to weld up some brackets and bolts to
mount the electric lock actuator. I had to
bend the bar that pulls the lock a bit and then
weld on an extention piece to make it work.The
power window motor bolted right up to the same
spots as the manual window crank.

The door had some rust that was cleaned up and
painted over. I made a wire harness from wire I
had on hand. The center window control switches
where easy to swap out.

All of the screws for the door skins where
stripped out or rusted in place. Some of them
where removed by cutting a slot in them and
turning them into flat head screws. The rest
where drilled out.

The vents in Fieros allow rain and debree to
fall onto the battery and battery tray. To
stop this and help prevent more rust, I
developed "Rain Gaurds". These are just pices
of corragated plastice cut to fit so that
they rest in place over the engine
compartment. The gaurds sit on a slant to allow
water and air movement.

Blah blah blah. -Insert 35 pages bitching about the
clutch system-