Intro — Building a racecar from a 1987 Fiero

I started building this “racecar” in April 2016.  I’ve been learning some interesting stuff along the way so I’m starting a blog to share.

I’m using the term racecar loosely.  The idea is to use this as a cheap track car and/or enter it the Chump or Lemons races.  Both of these races have a dollar limit of $500 (excluding safety equipment) which sometimes requires some creative work for cost savings.

The car is a 1987 Pontiac Fiero GT.  I bought it from a guy who had started to swap in a GM 3800 Series II engine (from a circa 1999 Oldsmobile Eighty-Eight).  He was in way over his head so I bought the car and a truck full of parts.  The project so far has involved the actual conversion work plus undoing a lot of the previous owner’s efforts.  The one thing I will say for the former owner is he did collect almost all the parts and sold them with the car.

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