I have recently found your channel (thanks to your dad's post on the Fiero reddit page) and binged all the videos you have made so far. Just santed to say you are doing a great job and keep it up, can't wait for the next one, and just how great it is to see other young'ins also into Fieros as I am.
if you are convinced to keep the iron duke engine. carefully consider how you are going to build it. look up threads on people modifying them. with the proper build you can get 200hp. back in the day many people were very unhappy with the performance of that engine. I am convinced you will have a much happier experience with your car and it will remain with the same engine. just look at your options.
Thank you. For now, I just want a good solid reliable version of this car that runs well as it did when it was new. I want to baby this car, but plan to get another one as soon as I get a job, and then I want to go all out with that one and put a huge motor in it.
Nice video, very informative. Check out Ronald Finger's series on his Fiero rebuild. He didn't rebuild the engine, but there is a lot of good information on these cars.
So why not sleeve the motor and bring it back to spec so there is no chance of loosing the block? BUTT- speaking as a learning man not meant to be a reverse logic question. So what tools are you using I don't see a description or specification for them and why you chose these tools? Do you have any DIY men kontakts in Lincoln Nebraska area that I kould associate with to get motivation to do the work to rebuild my motor to override the fears?
Dad here... you "could" sleeve the engine, but that incurs significantly more cost, and is not something you generally are concerned about unless you've gone beyond the engine's allowable specification. In this engine, it's actually quite acceptable to bore it out to .060. Typically, when people do a rebuild, it's .030 or .040 if it has a lot of wear. This is acceptable. When you get past .060, they just don't make "off the shelf" pistons that size, and at that point, you'd want to re-sleeve the motor. The tools are just cheap Chinese tools. For someone opening a business, I'd recommend really high-quality tools. For a garage warrior like my daughter (and myself), the cheap stuff works.
@@Todd82TA Thanks for your reply. Is a garage warrior in place of a weekend warrior? That is the first time I have heard that expression. Do you have any kontackts in lincoln Nebraska that I kould work with to learn automotive quicker?
Would you mind disclosing what having your motor sent to the machine shop cost? I have a 3800 swapped Fiero and plan on swapping in a series 3 in place of my current series 2. However, I'd like to have it cleaned up first.
@@GenerationZGarage Gotcha, sorry for asking prematurely! Thanks for the answer though. I think this series is really cool as I'm about the same age as you and have an almost identical Fiero... Minus the powertrain of course ;)
Peppa Pig's dad calls it a spanner, but we call them crescent wrenches. There are also adjustable crescent wrenches. They are called this because the open end looks like a crescent moon. They're also called box wrenches.
That's not the point of this build, this build is to preserve and refresh a basically stock car. Something that very few people are doing, especially for the iron Duke, not everyone needs to follow the crowd, and just throw away the stock Fiero engine. It's because of the iron Duke that the 2.8 exists in the Fiero, and for that matter that the Fiero is here to put a 3800sc into, without an economical engine, the Fiero would have never been.
@@1985FieroGT i appreciate what you are saying, but as a mercedes mechanic with 29 years of experience, the reason i made this suggestion is for way better drivability. you can always put the ID engine back in it if you want to return to stock
And she can always put the 3800sc in later if she decides to, remember she hasn't even driven this yet, she is going to get her license, then experience it like it was brand new, THEN decide whether to majorly modify and change the car.
Maybe so, but since when are car people good with finances haha, once again, the whole point of this series is to restore the car to basically factory condition, with a few modest upgrades that won't change the whole car, you can't just decide to completely modify something before you've driven it stock, and for anyone new at driving, a 200 something hp engine in a small old car is a recipe for disaster, only after experiencing the car as it was new can she decide to majorly modify it, it goes against the whole idea of a restoration, it can be done later, but the series is on restoring it, not majorly modifying it.
Gen z garage. We don't actually work on cars we just virtue signal until they are forced into changing parts. Gen z. Doing nothing and talking about it for years.
Maybe some parts of gen z, but don't include everyone in your "we". You are in the comments section of a video in a comprehensive series of videos on a restoration that goes much deeper then many. That takes hard work to do in and of itself. Further more there are many more people from gen z who work on cars, and Fieros too, me included. I haven't had the patience to film, edit and post everything I've done, but rest assured I've done a lot of work on my Fiero (so much so I'll run out of things to do and have to work on my dad's Fiero) if by "we" you mean you, then get it together and change that. Sitting in a pool of self pity will never help anyone, least of all yourself. Meanwhile the more handy/skilled part of gen z will continue learning, having fun, and fixing the car that we love.
interesting choice for a restoration. The Fiero has always looked cool despite the underwhelming performance of the ID. Excited to see how it ends up!
Thank you for watching!
Great photos of a obscure gasket and vestigial appendage of our iron dukes
Thank you!
Rock on...! Thanks for sharing... Keep up your awesomeness...!
Thank you so much!
I have recently found your channel (thanks to your dad's post on the Fiero reddit page) and binged all the videos you have made so far. Just santed to say you are doing a great job and keep it up, can't wait for the next one, and just how great it is to see other young'ins also into Fieros as I am.
Thers,a all aluminum version of the iron duke and 153 Chevy II
if you are convinced to keep the iron duke engine. carefully consider how you are going to build it. look up threads on people modifying them. with the proper build you can get 200hp. back in the day many people were very unhappy with the performance of that engine. I am convinced you will have a much happier experience with your car and it will remain with the same engine. just look at your options.
Thank you. For now, I just want a good solid reliable version of this car that runs well as it did when it was new. I want to baby this car, but plan to get another one as soon as I get a job, and then I want to go all out with that one and put a huge motor in it.
Nice video, very informative. Check out Ronald Finger's series on his Fiero rebuild. He didn't rebuild the engine, but there is a lot of good information on these cars.
Thank you. My dad has talked about him, but I haven't seen his vlog yet.
Great Work! I love the Iron Duke. You are doing awesome!
Thank you so much!
That Oldsmobile looks familiar 🤔but I had a 2-door. 🙂
Great video!
So why not sleeve the motor and bring it back to spec so there is no chance of loosing the block? BUTT- speaking as a learning man not meant to be a reverse logic question.
So what tools are you using I don't see a description or specification for them and why you chose these tools?
Do you have any DIY men kontakts in Lincoln Nebraska area that I kould associate with to get motivation to do the work to rebuild my motor to override the fears?
Dad here... you "could" sleeve the engine, but that incurs significantly more cost, and is not something you generally are concerned about unless you've gone beyond the engine's allowable specification. In this engine, it's actually quite acceptable to bore it out to .060. Typically, when people do a rebuild, it's .030 or .040 if it has a lot of wear. This is acceptable. When you get past .060, they just don't make "off the shelf" pistons that size, and at that point, you'd want to re-sleeve the motor. The tools are just cheap Chinese tools. For someone opening a business, I'd recommend really high-quality tools. For a garage warrior like my daughter (and myself), the cheap stuff works.
@@Todd82TA Thanks for your reply. Is a garage warrior in place of a weekend warrior? That is the first time I have heard that expression. Do you have any kontackts in lincoln Nebraska that I kould work with to learn automotive quicker?
Would you mind disclosing what having your motor sent to the machine shop cost? I have a 3800 swapped Fiero and plan on swapping in a series 3 in place of my current series 2. However, I'd like to have it cleaned up first.
I'll go over all this in the next video, but the total machine shop costs were about $700. This did not include any of the parts.
@@GenerationZGarage Gotcha, sorry for asking prematurely! Thanks for the answer though. I think this series is really cool as I'm about the same age as you and have an almost identical Fiero... Minus the powertrain of course ;)
Crescent wrench ????
Peppa Pig's dad calls it a spanner, but we call them crescent wrenches. There are also adjustable crescent wrenches. They are called this because the open end looks like a crescent moon. They're also called box wrenches.
@@GenerationZGarage I’ve always called it a open end box wrench
throw away that iron duke. install a 3800 supercharged engine. it will be much cheaper and much better
That's not the point of this build, this build is to preserve and refresh a basically stock car. Something that very few people are doing, especially for the iron Duke, not everyone needs to follow the crowd, and just throw away the stock Fiero engine. It's because of the iron Duke that the 2.8 exists in the Fiero, and for that matter that the Fiero is here to put a 3800sc into, without an economical engine, the Fiero would have never been.
@@1985FieroGT i appreciate what you are saying, but as a mercedes mechanic with 29 years of experience, the reason i made this suggestion is for way better drivability. you can always put the ID engine back in it if you want to return to stock
And she can always put the 3800sc in later if she decides to, remember she hasn't even driven this yet, she is going to get her license, then experience it like it was brand new, THEN decide whether to majorly modify and change the car.
@@1985FieroGT yes, but spending a few bucks on the ID when you can get a complete 3800 is better financially
Maybe so, but since when are car people good with finances haha, once again, the whole point of this series is to restore the car to basically factory condition, with a few modest upgrades that won't change the whole car, you can't just decide to completely modify something before you've driven it stock, and for anyone new at driving, a 200 something hp engine in a small old car is a recipe for disaster, only after experiencing the car as it was new can she decide to majorly modify it, it goes against the whole idea of a restoration, it can be done later, but the series is on restoring it, not majorly modifying it.
Gen z garage. We don't actually work on cars we just virtue signal until they are forced into changing parts. Gen z. Doing nothing and talking about it for years.
I guess what I thought I was doing was working on cars, but maybe you can stick around and I can prove you wrong.
Maybe some parts of gen z, but don't include everyone in your "we". You are in the comments section of a video in a comprehensive series of videos on a restoration that goes much deeper then many. That takes hard work to do in and of itself. Further more there are many more people from gen z who work on cars, and Fieros too, me included. I haven't had the patience to film, edit and post everything I've done, but rest assured I've done a lot of work on my Fiero (so much so I'll run out of things to do and have to work on my dad's Fiero) if by "we" you mean you, then get it together and change that. Sitting in a pool of self pity will never help anyone, least of all yourself. Meanwhile the more handy/skilled part of gen z will continue learning, having fun, and fixing the car that we love.