First here with a Fiero and a TVR?

[orphancars]

Jim,

Glad to "officially" be here

Rubes -- That '84 is a good candidate for a swap -- especially if it has the 4.10 rear in it (84 only)!!!

Here are a few more pics of the frame buildup. It probably wasn't the best plan, but I built a chassis table for this project, fixtured up the old frame, then built something comparable out of 2x3 and 2x4 steel tube. Once I found out that there would be a few, ahem, limitations to grafting on a new front suspension, had to remove the frame from the firewall forward and graft on more tube to support the custom C4 crossmember.

Note that the frame components to support the diff and the front suspension are placed/tacked as of today. Still measuring/fitting and making sure things are perfect before I weld everything into place.

Note -- the 3rd pic attached here is about all of the oldoriginal frame that I might use on the new frame -- that is the backbone section.

-jeff d

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Some more pics of the frame and the body on the frame. One thing to note -- the pic that shows the tire in the wheelwell and a part of the underside of the body...................that portion of the fiberglass floorpan is about 3" away from the chassis table (aka "pavement")!!! Since it's so low and since I don't have a fondness for a little fiberglass protecting my arse from the ground, I'll be welding in a set of floorpans from a VW beetle and reworking the TVR body tub.

See Jim -- our cars share a little common heritage

-jeff d

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Last group of pics.....

[ChevyThunder]

That Fiero is very cool. They actually raced these in teh IMSA GTU series with some success in the mid to late 80's . Here are some shots for you

http://www.racingsportscars.com/photo/1987/Mid-Ohio-1987-06-07g-004.jpg
http://www.racingsportscars.com/photo/1986/Mid-Ohio-1986-06-08g-016.jpg
http://www.racingsportscars.com/photo/1986/Mid-Ohio-1986-06-08g-050.jpg
http://www.racingsportscars.com/photo/1986/Mid-Ohio-1986-06-08g-055.jpg
http://www.racingsportscars.com/photo/1986/Watkins_Glen-1986-09-21g-050.jpg
http://www.racingsportscars.com/photo/1987/Mid-Ohio-1987-06-07g-055.jpg

[orphancars]

Chevy Thunder,

Thanks for the pics!!

There is a kit out there to add the IMSA features to a stock Fiero, either the notchback like is shown in your pics or the GT. Always liked the widebody look on that car.............nice thing about the car is that you almost unbolt the stock body parts and bolt on the new ones......



-jeff d