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Hello and my name is Chris! I am a 22 year old Union Sheet Metal worker. I was born and raised in West Branch, MI and recently moved to Georgia, currently in Powder Springs/Marietta area. I have always had a passion for the outdoors, and anything with a motor. I recently picked up an abandoned project from a really nice guy I met down here. Below is a long story about my history, so dont feel obligated to read it. WILL BE MAKING CONSTANT UPDATES! TONS OF UPDATED PICS BELOW, AND THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE THREAD! SOME VIDEOS ON PAGES 2!ALWAYS MORE TO COME! FRIENDS SRT-4 ON PAGE 9!YELLOW CHOP-TOP 3800 FIERO ON PAGE 10!MY NEW 1997 BUICK REGAL GS STARTS ON PAGE 11!The car: 1988 Pontiac Fiero Formula edition (1 of 5,484) started its life in Florida and belonged to the parents of the gentleman that I purchased it from. His older brother drove it to highschool and then He purchased the car for himself in 1998. In 2000 he gained interest in a new unheard of idea... Take the powerplant from those awesome new Pontiac Grand Prix GTP's and put it in a Fiero! That is where the adventure began. Not too long after he located a donor car from a salvage yard. A 1998 Pontiac Grand Prix GTP that was totaled in 2001, with 30,000 miles. While going to college he worked on the fabrication the wiring harness, and creating ideas for custom motor mounts. Sadly, before the project could be finished, he graduated college and moved away to start a new job. Ten years later he has moved back to the area, and decided that it would be best to pass the car onto someone who has the time and interest to finish it. This is where I come in... Through highschool my best friend Ray, myself, and his father had a project car we worked on. It was a 1994 Grand Am GT coupe. (some car! I know right lol) we tinted the windows, lowered it, put some rims on it, etc etc. The car originally came from Texas with a 3.3L motor and I think it lasted about 1,000 miles before we blew the top end of the motor from constantly burning out and racing around, so his father being a retired GM employee came up with the bright idea of putting a Series II supercharged 3800 in it. That winter we began the project, and to great surprise that spring it rolled out of the garage (I have only ever seen any evidence of one other of these swaps being done), and yes it was fast! It would pull 0-60 in around 5.1 seconds. Later that year we gave it a nice black paint job, it was a true sleeper! Then one day on our way down to visit his dad and tinker on the car it lost all power. We got picked up and headed back north the get our rollback and take it to the garage to see what happened. The next day we headed back down I75 to get it, and it was not there. We assumed it had been impounded, but after a couple phone calls realized that the car had been stolen, not towed. We never did see it again ;( The next year Ray's dad had a stroke, and is not able to do any wrenching. I went to look at this Fiero the day it was posted on Craigslist. Instantly I fell in love. It reminded me of the Grand Am we had built, but it had an even sportier quirk about it... I told the guy my story, and hung out for a while, and drank a few beers. We decided that the next day I would come back with a trailer to take the car home.
My girlfriend enjoying the drivers seat for the one and only time 
first step: remove EGR to make place for torque strut.
design a solid torque strut for minimum motor movement.
homemade EGR block offs
torque strut welded up
mounting bracket with trunk support.
torque strut mounted
test drive
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it had suspension, rims, etc really is a shame. We had turbo build plans in the making for the next winter. This build is dedicated to my best friend in high school, and his father who can no longer do what he loved to do.
