Fiero 3800 Turbo Part II

[Tom]

What all is needed internally for the 3.8 to withstand that kind of power? Car looks good going down the track.

The bottom end can hold about 1000hp stock. ZZP has an 8 second GTP with a stock bottom end.

[John4cam]

The bottom end can hold about 1000hp stock. ZZP has an 8 second GTP with a stock bottom end.

Pretty impressive for sure.

[RUTHLESS]

Ruthless, your car is in the first video at about 1:20. I don't know how you get so much traction in that thing! The first race I loaded the torque converter and got decent traction and only lost by a car or 2, 2nd I tried not loading the converter and lost by a good bit, and the last one I used the anti-lag, blew the tires off and got half tracked. That, the GTR and the beetle in one day was the most fun I had at the FLDs.

Thank you. My car has been getting more consistent as I tweak my setup and find what works. It has gotten me to with in a fender of taking top street from that Red Coronet and the driver came up to me and said "Wow that was everything I had". Power management to get consistency seems to be the key to these events.

FYI... When they installed the concrete pad they through me for a loop. I can launch the car hard but as soon as the surface changes I would go up in smoke so I went back to ignoring the pad and more or less using it for consistency more then a traction aid. You may have noticed this when you used anti-lag.

Feel free to hit me up with PMs and I cant try to get you some input from my finding. It might help but out cars are very different.

[sutyak]

Awesome build.

[Tom]

PTE6466


Heads


arp head studs, ls7 lifters


fuel pumps and injectors are on the way

[gmkillr]

Man you whipped that GTR.....How many times did you race him? How many of them did you win...all of them?

[Tom]

Raced 3 times, lost the last one. His car would kill mine now though. They were pretty even back then.

[SlowSix]

whatcha doing with that 6262?

[Tom]

I'm going to sell it once I get everything up and running. I'll probably let it go for $450, I think it needs new seals (smokes at idle).

[scott5]

I have been wondering where this car was! I love this car

[SlowSix]

I'm going to sell it once I get everything up and running. I'll probably let it go for $450, I think it needs new seals (smokes at idle).

dang, if the seals were still good I might be interested in it.

[Tom]

I think its the old design that was blowing seals. I'll probably sell it on ebay to someone who can rebuild it.

[jaa55]

I always liked these cars, unbelievable numbers. I bet it surprises the hell out of people.

[Tom]

680 lph!

[Martin0660]

I think its the old design that was blowing seals.

I've got the same issue with my current 5558 and feel the same. Strangely enough, I made the same move to a BB unit (but only 5858) .... Hoping the reduced oil need to the BB unit lets it last long / not smoke like this one (was on 4 seasons, the first 2 very hard, so no shame for it).

[Tom]

I heard rumors that the design was changed around april of last year. The pte bb turbos seem to have less problems from what ive seen online. I'm crossing my fingers.

[Martin0660]

The pte bb turbos seem to have less problems from what ive seen online. I'm crossing my fingers.

Also why I went that route (but almost cried clicking that option, lol). also crossed fingers.

[Tom]

Also why I went that route (but almost cried clicking that option, lol). also crossed fingers.

It's an expensive button to push, thats for sure!

[phillysrt4]

I've always liked the fiero since the mid 90's. Totally awesome build! If only there were any up here that weren't completely ragged out :(

[ERR0RMACR0]

Definitely awesome build--someday I want to do a sleeper style build! Good luck getting everything upgraded.