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Old 01-09-2020, 12:14 PM
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Default Plastic GM Mid engine car DOMINATES the drag strip

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It is the first GM mid engine plastic body car brought into the modern engine era and it dominates its peers at the drag strip.

No doubt the C8 will be better, but this is a LOT cheaper and as a sleeper - it might just be more fun...

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12.50's is Dominating? Sure , if we were teenagers living at home and this was the early 80's
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12.50's is Dominating? Sure , if we were teenagers living at home and this was the early 80's

OUCH... Come on man, cut me some slack...

Actually, 1.7 second 60' times. 11.80 seconds @ 114 mph.

No it won't touch Cleetus' LEROY, but it Dominates 99% of the souped up sport compacts, MR2's, etc. (its peers) and 95% of the late model $45k muscle cars that are all the rage.

If you are not even a little impressed.... That's. O.K.

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OUCH... Come on man, cut me some slack...

Actually, 1.7 second 60' times. 11.80 seconds @ 114 mph.

No it won't touch Cleetus' LEROY, but it Dominates 99% of the souped up sport compacts, MR2's, etc. (its peers) and 95% of the late model $45k muscle cars that are all the rage.

If you are not even a little impressed.... That's. O.K.

I love to see quick Fiero's. What did you do to the engine and drive train to achieve that?
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Originally Posted by vvv90
I love to see quick Fiero's. What did you do to the engine and drive train to achieve that?
Thanks for the comment. Bought a hail damaged Buick Regal GS with a ton of hail damage and 150k miles. Engine had great oil pressure and compression. Added a small cam, different fuel pump, bigger injectors, easy tune, swapped it into the fiero along with the 4t65e hd tranny and PCM. 11.8 at 113.5 all day long. Have about 4500 total into the build including the car... Fun cheap never ending project car!!
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I messed with a few 3800s back when I was still around Fieros. It didn't take the community long to figure out that if you forgo having the supercharger and slap on a turbo you can make an L67 a bit faster, but most still ultimately use a 4T65E to push them. 10s are very much obtainable and a very small select few have very high 9s. That's pretty incredible for whats effectively a FWD platform shoved to the rear mid section of the car.

I don't think people realize how impressive being able to go 10s in a six cylinder drive train built in the 1990s that in most cases people spend well under $5K truly is. It's utterly astounding.
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@Toys4Life C5 Thanks. I enjoyed that.
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A guy from where I grew up had one but put a Northstar in it. It was quick.

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Originally Posted by Velocity_Vette
I messed with a few 3800s back when I was still around Fieros. It didn't take the community long to figure out that if you forgo having the supercharger and slap on a turbo you can make an L67 a bit faster, but most still ultimately use a 4T65E to push them. 10s are very much obtainable and a very small select few have very high 9s. That's pretty incredible for whats effectively a FWD platform shoved to the rear mid section of the car.

I don't think people realize how impressive being able to go 10s in a six cylinder drive train built in the 1990s that in most cases people spend well under $5K truly is. It's utterly astounding.
The trouble now is you can still turbo it and to 10's BUT the supplier of the transmission parts needed to hold up dried up and so transmission reliability with a strong turbo suffers. That is part of the reason I am staying with the M90 supercharger. I would like to get it so it runs 11.50 all day long with no issues. Maybe lose 100lbs of weight and find another 40HP...lol.. It never ends...
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@Toys4Life C5 Thanks. I enjoyed that.








Thanks for the thanks! It was fun to run all the runs and put together the video as well!













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A guy from where I grew up had one but put a Northstar in it. It was quick.



I have only seen a couple of those and not recently.

They were a fairly popular swap for a while - and unique.

I believe the SC 3800 ultimately was a cheaper, easier and better performing option as time went on.
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I have only seen a couple of those and not recently.

They were a fairly popular swap for a while - and unique.

I believe the SC 3800 ultimately was a cheaper, easier and better performing option as time went on.
Could be, I don't know much about them.
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I realize I am very late finding this posting but have to say...wow! Thank you so much. Just curious, what was the outcome of the last race run against that orange Hemi Cuda? The video ends before showing. I always liked the Fiero.
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Sorry I missed this first time around, but that is very cool. I might be biased however.

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thats fast dont listen to internet readers that worship a fake dyno sheet. you could take most of em down.
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Originally Posted by Fine05
I realize I am very late finding this posting but have to say...wow! Thank you so much. Just curious, what was the outcome of the last race run against that orange Hemi Cuda? The video ends before showing. I always liked the Fiero.

If I remember right he got me by 3 cars at the end.

A lot of these guys come over later to see what is powering the Fiero into the 11's. It is a good conversation starter. Of course I check out their cars too because they area all cool!
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Fieros are pretty cool. But, you can do a lot with the Ford 2.3 turbo engine.




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Originally Posted by Patsgarage
Sorry I missed this first time around, but that is very cool. I might be biased however.



If you are biased, it is OK with me...
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Originally Posted by Tsab
Fieros are pretty cool. But, you can do a lot with the Ford 2.3 turbo engine.



I am not a FORD guy but that 2.3 can take a lot of abuse for sure!

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